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	21st Army Group - www.canadiansoldiers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The Army Group actually had command of all US forces involved in the Normandy landings as well, and Montgomery was the overall ground forces commander, until the bridgehead had expanded enough to allow additional formations ashore.
		The American 12th Army Group was activated under General Omar Bradley as the Battle of Normandy came to a close, that formation being activated on 1 Sep 1944, leaving the 21st Army Group with the First Canadian Army and 2nd British Army under command.
		After the German surrender, 21st Army Group was converted into the headquarters for the British zone of occupation in West Germany, being redesignated the British Army of the Rhine on 25 Aug 1945, and would eventually form the nucleus of the British forces stationed in Germany throughout the Cold War.
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=21st_Army_Group (870 words)

	Omar Nelson Bradley, General of the Army
		His last command, the 12th U.S. Army Group, was the largest body of American soldiers ever to serve under one field commander; at its peak it consisted of four field armies.
		In February 1941, as the Army was expanding in anticipation of war with the Axis Powers, Marshall promoted Bradley from lieutenant colonel to brigadier general, skipping the rank of colonel, and sent him to Fort Benning to command the Infantry School.
		Under command of George Patton's Seventh Army, Bradley's corps was in the vanguard of the Operation HUSKY assault, and it moved inland against negligible resistance.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /omarnels.htm (7182 words)

	US First Army
		The two American airborne divisions that landed were scattered all over the landscape, and caused considerable confusion amongst the German soldiers, as well as largely securing their objectives, albeit it with units completely mixed up with each other.
		The Army then passed from the control of 21st Army Group to the newly arrived 12th Army Group.
		First Army was slated to deploy to the far east to take part in Operation Coronet, the second phase of the invasion of Japan, but the Japanese surrender in August caused those plans to be cancelled.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/u/us/us_first_army.html (611 words)

	Key Area #5
		In a break with Army policy that had provided for racially segregated units, African-American members of rear-area support units were asked to volunteer as private and private first class to serve as infantrymen in otherwise white units where their assistance was most needed.
		Army Group the platoons were assigned to divisions in-groups of three, with each division then distributing one platoon to each regiment.
		Army Group where the platoons were misused by combining them to form armored infantry companies, the experiment was highly successful.
	chppm-www.apgea.army.mil /co2/CO2_book/Fa5.htm (873 words)

	Army Times - Bradley was last soldier honored with 5-star rank
		Omar N. Bradley, who commanded the largest field army ever deployed by the U.S., served as the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and was the last five-star general.
		Bradley’s army waded ashore on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
		After the war, Bradley followed Eisenhower as Army chief of staff and, as the Cold War began, became the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 1949.
	www.armytimes.com /story.php?f=1-292308-1601420.php (631 words)

	B24.NET - 392nd
		The group was moved to England in August 1943 and was assigned to the Eighth Air Force at Wendling Air Base in East Anglia.
		In June 1945 the group returned to the United States and was inactivated at Charleston AAF in South Carolina in September of the same year.
		American Fighter Groups flying P-38s and P-47s fitted with external fuel tanks were established to provide cover, but it wasn't until the introduction of the P-51 long-range escort that adequate protection could be afforded toward the end of 1943.
	www.b24.net /392nd (2234 words)

	GI -- World War II Commemoration
		Early in World War II he served as commandant of the Infantry School, commanded an infantry division in training, and in the spring of 1943 commanded the 2d Corps in North Africa and later in Sicily.
		Bradley missed full encirclement of a German army in Normandy, but this was generally attributed to the delayed advance of troops under British command.
		In September 1950, while chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he became the fourth officer to reach the 5-star rank of general of the army.
	www.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_bradley.html (540 words)

	Normandy Battlefield Tours - Small Group Tours
		Bayeux is a photogenic picturesque 12th century city untouched by bombs, shell fire or small arms fire.
		Theses forces were numerically equal in size to the Americans but had four times as many tanks as their anticipated battles were against determined, experienced German Panzer (tank) divisions.
		These forces were equal in size to the Americans but had four times as many tanks as their battles were mainly against very strong and experienced German Panzer (tank) divisions.
	www.normandybattlefields.com /small_group.htm (1219 words)

	Operation MARKET-GARDEN
		The 6th Army Group, arriving from southern France, was at the point of uniting with the Third Army to create a unified Western Front that would stretch from Antwerp to Switzerland.
		As early as the latter part of August, the army groups and the armies were issuing operational orders couched in terms of the cities along the Rhine River-Mannheim, Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Koblenz.
		Also, since the airborne troops would support the 21 Army Group, they would not be employed to reinforce the attack along the axis that the Allied planners had deemed most advantageous for entrance into Germany.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/70-7_19.htm (5259 words)

	Western Front (World War II) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Germans were now faced by three powerful Allied army groups, In the North British 21st Army Group commanded by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, In the middle the American 12th Army Group commanded by General Omar Bradley and in the South the US 6th Army Group commanded by Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers.
		The first units to make contact were from the US 69th Infantry Division of the First Army and the Soviet 58th Guards Division of the 5th Guards Army near Torgau, on the Elbe River on April 25.
		The German Army Group G surrendered to U.S. forces at Haar, in Bavaria, Germany on May 5, 1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Front_(WWII) (2173 words)

	American 12th Army Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The 12th Army Group was the largest and most powerful American formation ever to take to the field.
		It controlled the majority of American forces on the western front in 1944 and 1945.
		12th Army Group occupied the right flank of the Allied lines in Normandy, and the centre of the Allied line after 6th Army Group came into the line.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/a/am/american_12th_army_group.html (140 words)

	U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
		In 1943 the world was at war, and millions of Americans had been called to serve their country.
		To assist in accomplishing this mission, the Army's first forensic laboratory was activated on October 1, 1943, as the Scientific Investigations Branch of the Provost Marshals Office, 12th U.S. Army Group, Algiers, French North Africa.
		In addition to the three Regular Army Crime Laboratories, there were at least three Army Reserve Laboratories; the 379th MP Laboratory (CI), in Washington, DC; the 498th Laboratory (CI), in Wichita, KS; and, the 380th MP Detachment (Crime Lab), Oakland Army Base, Oakland, CA.
	www.cid.army.mil /usacil2.htm (695 words)

	History
		The American entry into World War II in December 1941 changed the Army almost overnight from a small peacetime organization of professionals into a force of millions.
		This group arrangement did not totally solve identified problems and in September 1969, at the direction of the Army Chief of Staff, the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Agency was established under the direction of The Provost Marshal General.
		The Commander of CID is directly responsible to the Chief of Staff of the Army and the Secretary of the Army.
	www.eustis.army.mil /CID/new_page_11.htm (1485 words)

	PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Summer 1998
		With the French on the left and an American armored division, the 5th, on the right, the XV Corps pushed north toward Argentan to close what became known as the Argentan-Falaise pocket, the maneuver to surround the Germans in Normandy.
		The departure of Haislip's corps headquarters and the shift of Patton's army to the east brought Leclerc new superior officers.
		The Americans felt their participation was small repayment for the dead soldiers lost between the Normandy beaches and the gates of the capital.
	carlisle-www.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/98summer/blumenso.htm (4866 words)

	Fort Belvoir News
		She was selected as one of the Army Materiel Command’s top 10 outstanding individuals for 2002 for her work as the country program manager for the Netherlands.
		Dulay was NCO of the quarter for both Fort Belvoir and the Military District of Washington and also the distinguished honor graduate for her class at the Basic Non-commissioned Officer Course in 2002.
		Next was Jan Chayt, who retired as a chief warrant officer four after 28 years in the Army, but continues her service to the military as a full-time volunteer in Fort Belvoir’s American Red Cross office, where she is the military casework chairperson.
	www.belvoir.army.mil /news.asp?id=armybday (1319 words)

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		A 1915 graduate of West Point, General Bradley retired from the Army in 1953 with the rank of Five Star General of the Army, which he received in 1950.
		This group contained the largest number of American soldiers ever to serve under one commander.
		General Bradley's post-war duties involved running the Veteran's Administration (1945-1947), being Army Chief of Staff (1948-1949) and serving as the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1949-1953).
	www.wbamc.amedd.army.mil /common/obradley.asp (264 words)

	Jedburgh team operations in support of the 12th army group, August 1944
		It took a directive from the 12th Army Group to establish that the FFI were allies and not enemies.
		One of the problems was that the American staff officers and commanders had been schooled to not extend their boundary lines beyond the front, a practice many still maintained in August 1944.
		The U.S. Third Army used large bodies of resistance troops to assist in the reduction of German garrisons of the Breton seaports and subsequently used some 15,000 FFI troops to guard the Loire River line as the U.S. Third Army swept east toward the German border.
	cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/Lewis/Lewis.asp (20182 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: The Supreme Command (ETO) [Chapter 17]
		In order to leave the army free for activities toward the east, General Bradley on 5 September gave its missions of clearing the Brest peninsula and protecting the southern flank of the 12th Army Group to General Simpson's newly arrived Ninth Army.
		The Third Army, almost completely halted at the end of August by gasoline shortages and increasing enemy opposition, resumed its advance on 4 September with the mission of crossing the Moselle and moving to positions on the Rhine.
		The 6th Army Group forces, which had driven more than 400 miles in scarcely a month, came to an almost complete standstill in mid-September, although the Seventh Army, after regrouping, was able to send three divisions across the Moselle by the end of the month.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-E-Supreme/USA-E-Supreme-17.html (9047 words)

	U.S. 12th Army Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		12th Army Group occupied the right flank of the Allied lines during the Battle of Normandy.
		After the breakout from beach-head at Normandy, the 12th Army Group occupied the center of the Western Front to the North was the British 21st Army Group and to the south, after their breakout from the Mediterranean coast, was the US 6th Army Group.
		By V-E Day, the 12th Army Group was a force that numbered over 1.3 million men.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_12th_Army_Group (176 words)

	Army Communicator
		Omar Bradley's 12th Army Group came into being Aug. 1, 1944, in Normandy, and with it Gen. George Patton's 3d U.S. Army was unleashed on the Germans.
		Patton was free to strike into Germany; in January, the 17 divisions of 3d U.S. Army moved an average of 100 miles in subzero temperatures.
		This Army was responsible for more than 130,000 enemy casualties (killed, wounded, prisoners) during the Battle of the Bulge.
	www.gordon.army.mil /AC/WWII/SIGINT.asp (1396 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / World War II General
		As the commander of the U.S. 1st Army and the U.S. 12th Army Group, 1944–45, Bradley reached his natural level of incompetence.
		Bradley directed Patton’s 3d Army to head for the Brittany ports and thus slowed the exploitation of Patton’s Operation Cobra breakout.
		He returned his staff’s loyalty and exemplary ability with equal loyalty and consideration—not necessarily a trait of his contemporaries—and his temperament encouraged a degree of admiration that overlooked his tendency to avoid risk and to blame others for his problems.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/2000/3/2000_3_84.shtml (686 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Hell’s Highway to Arnhem
		On the one hand, spearheading Bradley’s army group, there was the flamboyant George Patton, a familiar sight in newsreels and on front pages throughout the Allied world.
		On Saturday the Second Army refused to release the reserve division scheduled to be airlifted to the support of the Arnhem airhead.
		The pace of the Second Army’s rear echelons carrying supplies and reinforcements was hardly what Montgomery had in mind when he called for a drive of “the utmost rapidity and violence.” Allied intelligence fumbled badly in not taking reports of the presence of the two Panzer divisions more seriously.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1971/4/1971_4_60.shtml (5861 words)

	FPRI Events and Calendar - FPRI
		A former Army paratrooper and special operations officer, he was decorated several times for actions in combat.
		In 2002, as a result of what he felt to be a paucity of Muslim scholarship demonstrating the synergy of American democracy and its founding principles with the religion of Islam, he set out to form AIFD.
		He felt that AIFD could articulate in commentary and scholarship the fact that many Muslims believe they are able to practice their faith more freely and more Islamically (in a personal and secular fashion which is most suited to preserve one’s faith) in America than in any other place in the world.
	www.fpri.org /events (1489 words)

	21stARMYGROUP1944
		Army Group commanded the various British, Canadian and Polish divisions, which formed a major component of the Allied Expeditionary Force which landed in Normandy and liberated western Europe from Nazi occupation.
		Under the command of Montgomery, the Army Group commanded six armoured divisions, two airborne divisions and eleven infantry divisions, together with a number of independent brigades.
		Each army was composed of a number of corps, which could and were switched between the two armies to meet changing operational requirements.
	orbat.com /site/history/historical/usa/21starmygroup1944-45.html (1544 words)

	Seine Section, Paris, France, 1945 - WWII Unit History (Lone Sentry)
		On 21 August, in response to a military cable from Com Z, Forward, General Rogers flew to Valognes, France, and started a small planning group forward from Central Base Section by motor, and LCT (Landing Craft Tank), to complete the plan for the organization of Seine Section.
		Carthew-Yorstoun, DSO, MBE, thence to Chartres and conferred with General Omar Bradley, Commanding General 12th Army Group in regards to taking over the Paris area as soon as possible, while it was in the combat zone, thence on the 25th to Le Mans where he joined his advance party.
		One American resident demanded the daily delivery of specified brand foods to his house for the personal use of his family and
	www.lonesentry.com /unithistory/seine (2117 words)

	Army Communicator
		In one critical instance, eight Signal Corps soldiers from Bradley's 12th Army Group's signal section — helped by 12 guards from 825th Tank Destroyer Battalion — fought to defend their radio-relay sites and keep them operating.
		The inconspicuous relay was the only communications channel between 12th Group and 9th Army at Maastrict, and between 12th Group and 1st Army at Spa.
		However, probably few generals, relaying their commands and instructions, knew a small, isolated group of signalmen on a hill only two football fields from the advancing enemy, were part of the link.
	www.gordon.army.mil /AC/WWII/LOSTRELY.asp (961 words)

	American Airpower Museum: Tuskegee Airmen Remembered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Due to the corrosive nature of segregation that prevailed in the United States during World War 11, the training of 926 African-American military aviators was concentrated at an isolated specially constructed Army Airfield near Tuskegee, Alabama and at Tuskegee Institute.
		The first contingent of the 99th Pursuit Squadron, (later designated as Fighter Squadron) was a group of enlisted technical and administrative specialists and five aviation cadets, all of whom were trained at Chanute Air Field, Rantoul, Illinois, the U. Army Air Corps Technical Training School.
		The American bomber crews called the 332ndFG the "Red Tail Angels" because of the identifying, brightly painted red tail assemblies.
	www.americanairpowermuseum.com /htm/tuskegee/tuskegee_airmen.htm (442 words)

	West Point in the Making of America
		Most of his army life had been spent learning or teaching about war.
		With Eisenhower as supreme commander, Bradley advanced from corps commander in North Africa and Sicily to command the First Army in the Normandy invasion, then the 12th Army Group in the victory over Germany.
		No other general in American history commanded so many troops in the field—1.3 million—as Bradley did in 1945.
	americanhistory.si.edu /westpoint/history_6b1.html (144 words)

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