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  Army Group B - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Army Group B was tasked with protecting the northern flank of Army Group A, and included the 6th Army's attack on Stalingrad.
The final Army Group B was formed in northern Italy under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in 1943, to defend against a possible allied attack there, and was subsequently moved to northern France to defend against the D-Day landings.
The Army Group fought in the campaigns of 1944-45 including in France during the Battle of Normandy, the Low Counties including the Battle of the Bulge and in northern Germany before surrendering in the Ruhr Pocket,.
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 Army Group South - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At the beginning of Operation Barbarossa Army Group South was one of three German Army groups which invaded the USSR at the start of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.
Army Group South was then to advance up to the Volga River, subsequently draining a portion of the Red Army and thus clearing the way for the Army Group North and the Army Group Center on their approach to Leningrad and Moscow respectively.
At the end of World War II in Europe Army Group South was fighting in and around Austria and was one of the last major German military formations to surrender to the Allies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Army_Group_South   (330 words)

  
 GI -- World War II Commemoration
Army Group South, commanded by Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, was to attack from southern Poland and Romania, its flank armies converging on Kiev to trap the Soviet armies in the western Ukraine in a great pocket west of the Dnieper (Dnepr) River.
Army Group Center was to be reinforced at the expense of its two neighbors, and Army Groups North and South were to complete their missions with the forces remaining to them.
Army Group E in Greece and Albania, after airlifting its troops from Crete and the other Greek islands, was forced to undertake a long and precarious march through the mountains of western Yugoslavia, which it did not complete until mid-November.
www.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_6.html   (17160 words)

  
 Erich von Manstein
Von Manstein's fear of Army Group Don still being cut off prompted him to advise O.K.H. (Army High Command) that, given the fact that the ratio of Russian forces to his own and those of Army Group B were somewhere around 1:8, it would, therefore, be necessary to improve this ratio.
The 2nd Army was given to Army Group Center and Army Group B was withdrawn from the German order of battle for the Eastern Front.
Popov's Mobile Group, with its armor strength down from one hundred and thiry-seven to fifty-three tanks, was to attack Stalino and then Meriupol while 1st Guards held the line Slavyansk-Nizhne Gorskoe with its remaining strength after transferring part of it to Popov and 6th Army.
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 Secondary Broadcast to the Nation - Movie Forums!
Army Group B on the other hand was made up of 3 infantry regiments from the 1st Corp based out of Richmond, along with two additional regiments from Norfolk.
Army Group A's objective was to storm across the border in a Blitzkrieg type manuever, their first target was Greensboro, the city had to be captured in under 12 hours time.
That is the reason Army Group B would only strike at Raleigh, their mission was simple, clear the city of any enemy forces and fortify it, then turn control of it over to another contingent of troops from the AONC.
www.moviesonline.ca /forum/showthread.php?t=9005   (786 words)

  
 Stalingrad: 1942
Army Group B moved across the Don River north of the city.
The 62nd Army, commanded by General Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov was holding on by a thin thread.
The Army was on the verge of starvation.
www.thenagain.info /WebChron/EastEurope/Stalingrad.html   (873 words)

  
 The German plan of attack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Army Group A, commanded by von Rundstedt, was to spearhead the attack through the Ardennes.
Manstein’s plan included passing over to Army Group A one army (the VI) from Army Group B. Army Group B would be used in the attack to draw forward the BEF and French left wing forward into Belgium thus alleviating the pressure on Army Group A’s attack in the Ardennes.
Parachute units were handed over to Bock’s Army Group B to take vital targets in Belgium and Holland, and also to cause confusion and chaos in both countries.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk /german_plan_of_attack.htm   (728 words)

  
 Untitled
Army Group A and the 1st Panzer Army would set off at the same time as Group B, from their base south of Kharkov, to take Rostov.
Group B/1st Panzers were firstly to move about 250 miles to Rostov and then the southern thrust to the beginnings of the oilfields at Maykop, 200 miles further on.
But he compounded the problem even further by taking away another panzer army when Group A were about to make their last advance on Grozny, on the eastern edge of the oilfields.
www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/third_reich/88853   (1040 words)

  
 Untitled Document
On it December Army Group G was defending with one‑half the strength it was supposed to have in the West Wall.
40 Hitler had given orders that the rest of the Army Group G front was to go over to the defensive while the 719th Division concentrated to wipe out the American bridgehead north of Saarlautern "at once." On 8 December, however, the 719th was still being committed piecemeal.
On 15 December the main body of the 21st Panzer Division was relieved and sent to the endangered left flank of Army Group G. 52 Although the combat strength of the 95th Division declined, its fighting spirit continued strong.
www.army.mil /cmh/books/wwii/lorraine/ch13endnotes.htm   (2698 words)

  
 HyperWar: US Army in WWII: The Supreme Command (ETO) [Chapter 22]
To the south of the 12th Army Group, General Devers was ordered to protect the right flank of the main advance and he prepared to move through the Danube valley to link up with the Russians.
Further, since the 12th Army Group commander intended to bring up the Fifteenth U.S. Army to assume the occupation duties of the First and Ninth Armies in the Rhineland, he would need control of the three armies in order to co-ordinate their relief.
Worse still, his army group lost all connection with Army Group G to the south, and there was danger that the Allied advance in the north, which seemed to proceed "like a peacetime maneuver, executed with all technical means of modern warfare," would soon separate his forces from the army group in the north.
www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-E-Supreme/USA-E-Supreme-22.html   (2889 words)

  
 GI -- World War II Commemoration
Army Group B in the north, commanded by Col. Gen.
The German Eighteenth Army, led by Gen. (later Field Marshal) Georg von Kuchler of Bock's Army Group B, launched the ground attack at dawn, the main column striking through the southern Netherlands to envelop the Dutch south flank.
Although the French First Army held a salient extending southeast of Lille, the fact that the Ninth Army had collapsed (the new commander, Giraud, was captured on May 18) left the French right flank and thus the British rear unprotected.
www.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_4.html   (5402 words)

  
 Eastern Front History - 1942
Soviet 28th army is attacked by German 6th Army in Volchansk region.
Army Group A and 4th Panzer Army drive deep into Caucasus and come within 70 miles of Caspian Sea.
General Manstein assume command of Army Group Don and is ordered to prepare to open a corridor to Paulus' besieged 6th Army.
www.russianwarrior.com /1941_Chronology42.htm   (808 words)

  
 Shofar FTP Archives: imt/nca/nca-06/nca-06-3739-ps
Officers who qualified for inclusion in the said group by reason of no more than a f ew weeks' service in a post or comrnand comprised in the said definition in the Indictment were omitted from the list.
Hitler, C-in-C of the Army from December 1941, is excluded.
Von Brauchitsch replaced von Fritsch in Feb. 1938 as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and was in turn replaced by Hitler in Dec. 1941.
www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.cgi/imt/nca/nca-06/nca-06-3739-ps   (2321 words)

  
 RESTRICTED
Hospitalization in the army area west of the Rhine was supplied by the 103rd Evacuation Hospital at Bergheim, the 67th Evacuation Hospital at Bad Godesberg, and the 96th Evacuation Hospital at Dunstekoven.
To supervise medical service of this group, the personnel of the new hospitals was allocated to the medical groups of the army.
The 47th Field Hospital was to be used to cover troop concentration in the army area, while the 84th Field Hospital was to be held in reserve to cover the possible extension of V Corps to the south.
history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/wwii/FUSA1945/FUSA1945.htm   (6705 words)

  
 W.W.II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Army's solution was to begin immediately to concentrate Allied power in England and from there, as soon as possible, to launch a drive across the English Channel aimed at Germany.
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.
The principal thrust east was to be north of the Ardennes Forest in Belgium with General Montgomery's British 21st Army Group.
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 POL Resupplying Patton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
By mid-September the Allied armies stood ready to attack on the German border in the north and on the banks of the Moselle River in the south.
This resistance caused the Third Army to fight considerably harder than they were accustomed during the first months of the campaign.
His neglect of fuel and ammunition shortages cost the entire army until finally he was forced to stop and regroup.
www.qmfound.com /pol.htm   (1876 words)

  
 Directive No. 14   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
(b) To transfer XIV Corps to the left flank Of 4th Army.
(c) To strike a crushing blow at the strong enemy forces on the 6th Army front by increasing the pressure exerted by the bulk of 4th Army southeastwards and by the left flank of 6th Army southwestwards.
(a) To support the concentric attack on the flanks of the main enemy forces facing Army Group B. (b) To keep under observation and under strong fighter cover the coast on the right flank of Army Group B and the area southwest of the Bresle sector.
www.adolfhitler.ws /lib/proc/direct14.html   (301 words)

  
 Home
We are a group of reenactors that are located in all parts of Florida.
We are a small group of Americans that their love for country is only over powered by their admiration of those who fought the Nazis and Japanese in real life.
The history of Troop B of the fighting 6th Cavalry started in 2003 when Capt Zukauskas started the unit after doing reenactments with Company A in New Jersey.
www.6thcavalrytroopb.com   (438 words)

  
 British Expeditionary Force
Fedor von Bock and Army Group B attacked the BEF on 14th May, 1940.
The attack on 21st May, 1940, could not be sustained and Gort decided to withdraw to Dunkirk so that his army could be evacuated to Britain.
Most of these were members of the British Expeditionary Army but it also included 40,000 were members of the French Army.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWbef.htm   (431 words)

  
 HyperWar: The US Army in WWII: The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge [Chapter 2]
Recognizing, therefore, that the Allied north wing with its four armies was heavily weighted, Plan Martin emphasized protection of the north flank of the attack, adding extra divisions for this purpose and feeding in a vital secondary attack by six divisions debouching from the salient south of Roermond.
Although Model and Army Group B were not consulted in the preparation of this answer from Rundstedt to Jodl, the army group planners made haste to repudiate any plan for a simultaneous two-pronged attack.
The OB WEST and Army Group B commanders now were able to forget their personal differences and the animosities engendered between their respective staffs in pursuit of the common object: the acceptance by Hitler of some type of Small Solution in which the means were appropriate to the end.
www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-E-Ardennes/USA-E-Ardennes-2.html   (6075 words)

  
 Untitled Document
[1] See description in MS # B-172, Army Group B Engineers, 1-25 January 1945 (Generalleutnant Richard Wirtz).
On 13 December the ammunition on hand and in shipment for Army Group B totaled 15,099 tons, but 5,353 tons were allocated to the Fifteenth Army, which did not, as planned, take part in the offensive.
See Headquarters 12th Army Group, Consolidated Interrogation Report 1, 12 June 1945.
www.army.mil /Cmh-Pg/books/wwii/7-8/7-8_End25.htm   (380 words)

  
 France 1940   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Yellow plan captured Jan. 10 and Hitler changed to new Sickle Stroke plan with Bock's Army Group B in north at Belgium, Leeb's Army Group C in south at the Maginot Line, and Rundstedt's Army Group B in center at Ardennes
U.S. Army had only 5 active divisions of 80,000 men to face Germany's 140 divisions of 2 million men.
May 16 - FDR speech to Congress asked for new defense spending, enlarged Army, 50,000 planes - speech was applauded by Congress and public opinion favored defense program
history.acusd.edu /gen/WW2Timeline/Prelude12.html   (258 words)

  
 Wehrmacht in Yugoslavia, August 1943   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Army Group B (Heeresgruppe B) from 19 August to 20 September
Command of security troops for area of Army Group B - Corps Group Witthöfft (Kommandierender General der sicherungstruppen in Gebiet der Heeresgruppe B - Korpsgruppe Witthöfft) from 21.07.1943.
Army Group F (Heeresgruppe F) - from 26 August to 27 March 1945
www.vojska.net /ww2/germany/oob/1943-08.asp   (260 words)

  
 FNF:  BATTLE OF STALINGRAD:  Casualties:  647.000 !        2001-04-23
They knew that the capture of Stalingrad would be catastrophic for there ability to withstand the German army.
The German 6th Army, commanded by Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus (
NL) broke through the soviet lines and began to enter the city from the west.
www.hi.is /~joner/eaps/wh_stali.htm   (373 words)

  
 Green Army
Named Friends in the Army    174 with 5 openings                             Last Updated  06/05/05
Army Units Assigned As Security To The Armed Forces Command group
Forces Under Direct Army Command and assigned to units as needed.
www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/east/1201/id17.htm   (235 words)

  
 Order of Battle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The following is a complete Order of Battle for Allied and German units in the Market Garden area.
The only Allied units to have participated directly at Arnhem are the 1st Airborne Division, 1st Polish Brigade, 38 and 46 Groups RAF, and the 52nd Troop Carrier Wing USAAF.
38 and 46 Groups RAF, RASC Air Despatch Units
www.arnhemarchive.org /order.htm   (79 words)

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