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	U.S. 6th Army Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 6th Army Group, also known as the Southern Group of Armies, was commanded by Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers.
		The 6th Army Group remained subordinate to AFHQ in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations during the invasion and in the weeks immediately afterwards.
		At about the time the 6th Army met the U.S. 12th Army Group, which had broken out of the Normandy bridgehead, near Dijon in mid-September, command was handed to SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces) under U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_6th_Army_Group (258 words)

	SHAEF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At that point, Montgomery ceased to command all land forces, but continued as Comander in Chief of the British 21st Army Group (21 AG) on the easten wing of the Normandy bridgehead and the American 12th Army Group (12 AG) commanded by General Omar Bradley was on the western wing of the bridgehead.
		As the breakout from Normandy took place, the Allies launched invasion of southern France on August 15 1944 with the American 6th Army Group (6 AG) under the command of Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers.
		The British 21 AG to the North, the American 12 AG in the middle and the 6 AG to the South.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/SHAEF.htm (502 words)

	Army Groups 1st-15th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		When the forces within a theater of operations consist of several field armies, a headquarters, known as the army group, is formed.
		An army group is the largest field organization handled by a single commander in modern warfare and usually includes between four hundred thousand and one-and-a-half-million troops.
		During WWII, only three army groups were formed: the 12th Army Group, commanded by General Omar Nelson Bradley, the Sixth Army Group, under General Jacob L. Devers; and the 15th Army Group, led by General Mark W. Clark.
	www.ranger95.com /armies/army_gps.html (163 words)

	12th Army Group HQ
		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, over 39 infantry and airborne divisions and 15 armored divisions.
		The Headquarters of the Twelfth Army Group was established in London on July 14, 1944, and was given operational control of the United States First and Third Armies on August 1.
		The operations of the 12th Army Group was dominated throughout the fall of 1944 by the necessity of developing a new administrative base in close proximity to the front lines.
	www.geocities.com /netzone_wargaming/pzcc_usarmy/12thaghq.htm (780 words)

	W.W.II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The American command in the Mediterranean, co-existing with the Allied command, was the North African Theater of Operations, U.S. Army (NATOUSA) established on 4 February 1943, which was superseded by the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, U.S. Army (MTOUSA) on 1 November 1944.
		Among the American forces was the 82d Airborne Division, which was scheduled to drop behind the invasion beaches to forestall enemy reaction to the landings.
		Opposed to the Allies was the so-called Army Group B of the German Army, consisting of the Seventh Army in Normandy and Brittany, the Fifteenth Army in the Pas de Calais and Flanders, and the LXXXVIII Corps in Holland—all under command of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
	www.22ndinfantry.org /wwii.htm (9483 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)

	Combined Arms Research Library
		The focus of this bibliography is on theater, army, army group, and the field army during the 20th Century.
		After the 12th Army Group's crossing of the Rhine ahead of the 21st Army Group (7 March 1945), the 12th Army Group planned operations to help encircle the Ruhr, an operation in which 325,000 prisoners were taken.
		This work is a good overview of army group development, and the practical exercises have value in that they reveal the nature of instruction on the subject in the 1920s.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/csib_4/csib_4.asp (7279 words)

	CHAPTER 22: World War II: The War Against Germany and Italy
		American troops were to make up the bulk of the assault force, and the Royal Navy was to keep its contribution as inconspicuous as possible.
		At the northern shoulder of the penetration, divisions of the V Corps refused to budge from the vicinity of Monschau, thereby denying critical roads to the enemy and limiting the width of the penetration.
		American factories produced for the British almost three times more lend-lease materials than for the Russians, including 185,000 vehicles, 12,000 tanks, and enough planes to equip four tactical air forces, and for the French, all weapons and equipment for 8 divisions and 1 tactical air force, plus partial equipment for 3 more divisions.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/amh/AMH-22.htm (8860 words)

	Central Europe
		The 12th and 6th Army Groups were to mount a subsidiary offensive to keep the Germans off balance and diminish their ability to stop the northern thrust.
		In the southernmost sector of the 21 Army Group's attack, the Ninth Army's assault divisions were to cross the Rhine along an 11mile section of the front, south of Wesel and the Lippe River.
		As the 6th Army Group and the Third Army finished clearing southern Germany and approached Austria, it was clear to most observers, Allied and German alike, that the war was nearly over.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/centeur/centeur.htm (8854 words)

	Stalingrad Battle; von Paulus 6th Army; Operation Uranus; Neptune; von Manstein
		Army Group A consisted of two armies, commanded by Erich von Manstein and von Kleist, who were to attack south towards Rostov, and then fan out through the Transcaucasus heading for the Caspian Sea while taking the oil-fields at Maikop.
		Army Group B included Friedrich von Paulus's 6th Army and Hoth's 4th Panzer Army, who would sweep through the corridor between the Don and Volga rivers to arrive on the Volga just north of Stalingrad (known today as Volgograd).
		By this point the Red Army had had enough time to set up defences of their own, and any hope of a forced breakout by the 6th Army was now futile.
	www.battle-fleet.com /pw/his/stalingrad.htm (3018 words)

	Vets With A Mission - History of Vietnam - Tet Offensive
		Possessing one of the finest military minds of this century, his strategy for vanquishing superior opponents was not to simply outmaneuver them in the field but to undermine their resolve by inflicting demoralizing political defeats with his bold tactics.
		Stung by their defeats, the Americans would lose heart for the war and what was left of the Saigon Government would be forced to reach an agreement with the NLF and Hanoi which - after a time - would simply take over in the South.
		American airpower was capable of delivering devastating attacks on concentrations of enemy troops and - apart from anti-aircraft guns - was unopposed.
	www.vwam.com /vets/tet/tet.html (5263 words)

	Hispanic-American ethnic group
		In 1805, he led an American-sanctioned invasion of Venezuela and is credited with the title of “Precursor of Latin American Independence.” During the 1800s, the sale of all Spanish lands west of the Mississippi to France was made under the proviso that these lands not be in turn relinquished to the United States.
		An accomplished Mexican army officer by the age of twenty-one, he gained the confidence of the Mexican governor and was named military commander of northern California.
		was the first American pilot taken as a prisoner of war and remained a prisoner longer than anyone else, eight and a half years.
	www.gordon.army.mil /eoo/hispan2.htm (3590 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)

	Asian-American ethnic group
		Asians are the largest population group on the face of the earth.
		The five largest groups of the Asian population in the United States are: Chinese (1.7 million), Filipino (1.5 million), Japanese (850,000), and Korean (800,000).
		Other contributions include the formation of the 4th Army Intelligence School responsible for taking ISSEI and NISSEI soldiers, increasing their language fluency, to be part of the code network throughout the Pacific and gathering intelligence from the Imperial Japanese, during the later part of the war.
	www.gordon.army.mil /eoo/asian.htm (6201 words)

	LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Am' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization
		American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
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	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /a/am/index.html (97 words)

	6th Army Group
		The 6th Army Group was organized in 1944 in Corsica to provide operational control over the combined French and American forces participating in the invasion of southern France.
		The Sixth Army Group, also known as the Southern Group of Armies, was commanded by Lt. Gen.
		The Group's operations progressed into the area of the High Vosges, across the German frontier, and finally to Western Austria, and the Lake of Constance.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/6ag.htm (170 words)

	USFA History - Page 2
		On May 12 1945, Seventh Army was withdrawn from 6th Army Group and placed under the control of 12th Army Group in Wiesbaden.
		The 12th Army Group, commanded by Gen Bradley, was headquartered at Wiesbaden, and commanded the four Armies (First, Third, Ninth and Fifteenth) that comprised the center of the VE-Day battle line (12th Army Group's front was 550 miles long).
		On 21 May, XV Corps was relieved from assignment to Seventh Army and reassigned with all of its assigned and attached troops to Third Army.
	www.usfava.com /USFA_History2.htm (452 words)

	General Jacob Devers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		One of Gen. Devers' organizational innovations at Ft. Knox was the addition of light aircraft to armored field artillery battalions to increase the mobility of firepower of the armored division artillery.
		In later years, as Commander, Army Ground Forces, he continued his pioneering in force development when he directed the development and organization of helicopter-borne units in the post-World War II Army.
		He subsequently was graduated from the Command and General Staff College and the Army War College and continued his service with artillery units in the United States until 1939, when he became Chief of Staff of the Panama Canal Department.
	www.trailblazersww2.org /divisionhistory/devers.htm (505 words)

	6th army rangers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		John Richardson, 6th Army Ranger, recalled: "I thought he was going to kill us.
		The 1945 raid by the US Army’s 6th Ranger Battalion to rescue Americans held at the Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan in the Philippines is the subject of...
		The Rangers is an elite group within the US Army, consisting of only the 75th Ranger...
	www.everything-army-2005-2006.com /86/6th-army-rangers.html (406 words)

	Encyclopedia: American 6th Army Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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		The 6th Army Group remained subordinate to AFHQ in the Mediterranean Theatre during the invasion and in the weeks immediately afterwards.
		At about the time the 6th Army met the American 12th Army Group, which had broken out of the Normandy bridgehead, near Dijon in mid-September, command was handed to SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces) under U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/American-6th-Army-Group (300 words)

	World History :: Encyclopedia Index -- Am (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia
		American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property
		Americans United for Separation of Church and State
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Am.htm (187 words)

	29th Division (UK), 116th Regiment, C Company - Re-enactment Group
		We are a re-enactment group, re-enacting the American infantryman of the 29th Infantry Division during WWII.
		We got to meet American and British veterans across a number of beaches, all with a story to tell.
		Steve has ran a 29th group in the past and is part of the 29th Historical Association.
	www.29th.co.uk (1214 words)

	ACT/IAC Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The American Council for Technology (ACT) is a non-profit educational organization established in 1979 to assist government in acquiring and using information technology resources effectively and efficiently.
		As we prepare for the second annual Future Forum to take place at ELC 2005, review the results of last year's session where a small group of leaders in the federal government looked ahead to the challenges, concerns, and opportunities for leveraging technology for public policy impact in 2005.
		Presented by Col Tim Fong, Director of the Office of IT Services for the United States Army, at the December 9th,2004 IAC event.
	www.actgov.org (1563 words)

	U.S. 6th Army Group -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		U.S. 6th Army Group -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The 6th Army Group, also known as the Southern Group of Armies, was commanded by (A general officer ranking above a major general and below a full general) Lieutenant General (additional info and facts about Jacob L. Devers) Jacob L. Devers.
		The 6th Army Group remained subordinate to (additional info and facts about AFHQ) AFHQ in the (additional info and facts about Mediterranean Theater of Operations) Mediterranean Theater of Operations during the invasion and in the weeks immediately afterwards.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/u/u.s._6th_army_group1.htm (98 words)

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		The Special Emphasis Program promotes equal opportunity in hiring, advancement, training, and treatment of each targeted group.
		This program advocates necessary change to overcome barriers that restrict equal employment opportunity for women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities.
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		The U.S. House of Representatives this week approved the FY 2006 Energy and Water appropriations legislation, which provides funding for the Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works program.
		The cement industry has formalized its long-standing commitment to environmental stewardship with a sustainable development initiative.
	www.cement.org (419 words)

	Headquarters United States European Command
		To provide a better learning environment for the children, outreach program volunteers from the U.S. Marine Corps, Navy, Army and Air Force worked side-by-s...
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		SIAULIAI, Lithuania — While many Americans commemorated Veterans Day with special events or visits to monuments in their home towns, Airmen deployed to Lithuania took the opportunity to honor the memory of their fellow aviators here.
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