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SE: Jun II 41, 17th Army, Army Group South, 1x 1-10 mot AT II 525; Jun I 43, withdraw
SE: Jun II 41, Army Group South/11th Army, 1x 1-10 mot AT II 560; Sep I 42, withdraw
SE: Jun II 41, Army Group Center/3rd Pz Group, 1x 1-10 mot AT II 643; Mar I 42, withdraw
panzerjaeger-info.fuehr-online.de /html/WH2.html   (7098 words)

  
  Historical Bibliography No.3: Operational Level of War
This operation entails a combined arms army entering battle on the march, a river crossing, and a penetration and envelopment.
While describing 12th Army Group operations from the Normandy breakout to the closing of the Ruhr Pocket, Colonel Heiborg states the case for using highly mobile, heavy armored units to rapidly exploit enemy disorganization.
Armies acted either independently or within the mission of the front of which they were a part.
www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/olw_csi/olw_csi.asp   (15743 words)

  
 AFS. WWII. The Western Desert. The War. Last Throes.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
As a result of the Anglo-American conferences at Casablanca, the Eighth Army on 20 February came under the operational command of the Allied Forces in North Africa, of which General Dwight D. Eisenhower was the Supreme Commander.
As far as the Armies were concerned the balance in the air over their heads changed as Messe withdrew northwards and allowed the Allied fighters and light bombers to settle on the numerous Axis airfields in the Central Tunisian plain.
A little village (or a large city) suddenly overrun by a vast army in its headlong pursuit of Europeans is closed and barricaded, the white-washed hovels of the natives are apparently deserted, and the streets of the town have nothing of more interest then a few shrapnel pocked walls and bomb-gutted buildings.
www.ku.edu /carrie/specoll/AFS/4/d/4d4d2.html   (3127 words)

  
 Harold Alexander   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In February 1943 Alexander was given command of the new 18th Army Group and after the North African campaign ended in Tunisia led the 15th Army Group in Sicily (July - August, 1943) and was Supreme Allied Commander in Italy (September, 1943 - May, 1945).
General Guderian's XIX Army Corps when two of its panzer divisions were heading for Dunkirk, not twenty miles distant and with little or no opposition ahead.
Despite the switch, in all, of five divisions from Eighth Army to the Fifth Army, German resistance on the main front remained stubborn; and during the early critical days the British and United States divisions at Anzio had to fight unaided for their own salvation.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWalexanderH.htm   (4294 words)

  
 Independent Sturmgeschütz Units
[Münch: Transferred from 6th Army to 11th Army 3 Nov 41, assigned to LIV Corps for the initial attacks on Sevastopol.
NOTE: in Kumm, Obersturmführer Harry Paletta, “in mid 1943 was assigned to the 105th Assault Gun Battalion, V SS Gebirgs Corps in Werschez (Banat).
Army Group North: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945
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 Heeres Independent Artillery Units
Listings for 4th and 9th Armies include 4th and 3rd Panzer Groups, to which they are subordinated to, respectively.
Sep 39 assigned to VII Corps, Army Group South and equipped as a mixed battalion
Sep 39 V Corps, 5th Army, Army Group C and equipped as a mixed battalion
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 443rd AAA Bn - World War II - Southern Tunisia Campaign Phase 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Following receipt of a message from General Alexander, 18th Army Group Commander, plans for attack were activated.
On 7 April Patton ordered the Benson Armored Force to attack and drive vigorously until it either reached the Mediterranean (Gulf of Gabes) or in pushing eastward toward the sea while clearing enemy opposition, made contact with the German main force.
Although this 1st Armored Division action had thus drawn enemy strength away from the British 8th Army, it had not been able to achieve a breakthrough to cut off and trap the Afrika Corps against the 8th Army and the U.s.
www.kwanah.com /txmilmus/36division/archives/443/44337.htm   (303 words)

  
 U.S. Army Engineers 1965-1970
Troop List, 18th Engineer Brigade, 21 September 1965
The 18th Brigade Is Greeted at Vung Tau
Newport, the Army Addition to the Port of Saigon
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/Vietnam/Engineers   (296 words)

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