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	U.S. Eighth Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eighth Army's final operation of the Pacific War was the clearance of the southern Philippines, including the major island of Mindanao.
		Eighth Army was to have participated in Operation Downfall, the invasion of Japan.
		Occupation forces landed on 30 August 1945, and Eighth Army assumed responsibility for the occupation of the whole of Japan at the beginning of 1946.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/US_Eighth_Army (995 words)

	U.S. Eighth Army -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The US Eighth Army is the commanding formation of all (The army of the United States of America; organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare) US Army troops in (A republic in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948) South Korea.
		Eighth Army's final operation of the Pacific War was the clearance of the southern Philippines, including the major island of (The second largest island of the Philippines at the southern end of the archipelago; mountainous and volcanic) Mindanao.
		Eighth Army was to have participated in (Click link for more info and facts about Operation Downfall) Operation Downfall, the invasion of (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/u/u.s._eighth_army1.htm (1026 words)

	British Eighth Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Eighth Army was one of the best-known formations in World War II, fighting in the campaigns in North Africa and Italy.
		The Eighth Army was formed from the Western Desert Force in September 1941 and put under the command of Lt-Gen Sir Alan Cunningham.
		During the stalemate on the Winter Line, in early 1944, the Eighth Army was removed from the shore of the Adriatic Sea to concentrate all forces, except the British V Corps, on the western side of the Apennines in order to punch through to Rome.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Eighth_Army (766 words)

	CHAPTER XXX: Eighth Army and X Corps Enter North Korea
		Eighth Army at once implemented its order of the 5th by radio messages to General Milburn at U.S. I Corps and to the Chief of Staff, ROK Army.
		Eighth Army expected strong enemy resistance at the 38th Parallel and a stubborn defense of P'yongyang.
		While the I Corps of Eighth Army was driving into North Korea on the P'yongyang axis and the 1st Marine Division was loading at Inch'on, the 7th Infantry Division was assembling at Pusan to outload there in the X Corps amphibious movement to northeast Korea.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/korea/20-2-1/sn30.htm (6961 words)

	Eighth United States Army History
		The Eighth U.S. Army was officially activated in the continental United States on June 10, 1944, and ordered to the Pacific where, under the command of Lt.
		Eighth Army was being readied for the main assault on the Kanto Plain (Tokyo) of the Japanese main island, when V-J Day changed its mission.
		The planned reduction in Eighth Army was completed on schedule as the command's authorized strength was reduced by over 18,000 by the end of June 1971.
	8tharmy.korea.army.mil /Eusapages/History.htm (2216 words)

	Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
		By November 24, from left to right on line, Eighth Army consisted of: I Corps, with the 24th Division, the British 27th Brigade, and the ROK 1st Division; IX Corps, with the 2nd and 25th Divisions and the Turkish Brigade; and ROK II Corps, with their 6th, 7th and 8th Divisions.
		Eighth Army virtually fled from the Chinese army, veterans of their fierce Civil war, whose strengths were not fire-power but rather mobility, deception, surprise, and determination.
		Once Eighth Army broke and began their precipitous retreat the uncommitted 100,000 troops, instead of being killed or wasted in the frozen wilds of the Taebaeks, would have been free to continue the CCF assault when it later slowed down.
	www.rt66.com /~korteng/SmallArms/chosin.htm (4445 words)

	Public Affairs Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thus, Eighth Army’s mission transitioned from one of conquest to one of occupation and in concert with the Sixth Army, it provided the ground forces for the military occupation of Japan.
		Initially, the “Amphibious Eighth” was responsible for northern Honshu, Hokkaido, and Karafuto; however, on 31 December 1945, Sixth Army was relieved of occupation duties and inactivated in Japan on 26 January 1946.
		Subsequently, on 19 October, Eighth Army captured the North Korean capital of Pyongyang and by 24 November, began the “end-of-the-war” offensive, which had as its objective the destruction of the North Korean regime and the unification of the peninsula.
	www.korea.army.mil /PAO/backgrounder/bg4.htm (3909 words)

	Eighth Army
		The Eighth U.S. Army was officially activated in the continental United States on June 10, 1944, and ordered to the Pacific where, under the command of Lt. Gen.
		U.S. Army forward forces -- Task Force Smith -- were badly bloodied in a gallant, but disastrous, stand north of Osan on July 5 -- the first American ground engagement of the Korean War.
		Eighth Army drove northward in the west against demoralized resistance.
	www.korean-war.com /8thArmy.html (1173 words)

	World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands fell quickly against the attack of Army Group B, and the British Expeditionary Force, trapped in the north, was evacuated at Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo.
		While some units from the French army were still fighting, a number of top politicians and military leaders decided that it would be better to surrender; France signed an armistice with Germany on June 22, 1940, leading to the establishment of the Vichy France puppet government in the unoccupied part of France.
		Further south the main Japanese army in the theatre were fought to a standstill on the Burma-India frontier by the British Fourteenth Army (the "Forgotten Army"), which then counter-attacked, and having recaptured all of Burma was planning attacks towards Malaya when the war ended.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_War_II (9602 words)

	Powell's Books - Eighth Army: The Triumphant Desert Army That Held the Axis at Bay from North Africa to the Alps, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eighth Army: The Triumphant Desert Army That Held the Axis at Bay from North Africa to the Alps, 1939-45
		Eighth Army is a masterful epic of military history in which acclaimed historian Robin Neillands thrillingly chronicles the defeats and triumphs of the Eighth Army, considered by many to be the most remarkable fighting force of WWII.
		Drawing on an oversupply of reminiscences by Eighth Army vets, Neillands keeps the focus of his detailed campaign narratives on the heroic exploits of small units and individual soldiers.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=2-1585675377-1 (557 words)

	What is flexibility? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In an agreement between the Army Chief of Staff, GEN J. Lawton Collins, and the UN Supreme Commander, GA Douglas MacArthur, GEN Ridgway was identified early as the replacement for the Eighth Army commander, GEN Walton H. Walker, in the event GEN Walker was killed in combat.
		At that time, Eighth Army was defending near the 38th parallel, having completed a 300-mile retreat after the Chinese intervention and stunning victory on the Chongchin River.
		Eighth Army’s offensive spirit soared as GEN Ridgway quickly followed up with a renewed attack that took Seoul and regained roughly the same positions Eight Army had held when he first took command.
	airdefense.bliss.army.mil /qao/What_is_flexibility.htm (1648 words)

	The Eighth Army: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Fighting spirit is the subject of Robin Neilland's Eighth Army: The Triumphant Desert Army That Held the Axis at Bay From North Africa to the Alps, 1939-45 (Overlook, $32.50).
		Although the Eighth was stalled from time to time in Italy, it persevered, fighting the length of the Apennines in deadly mountainous terrain.
		Eighth Army is Robin Neillands's masterful and thrillingly told account of the defeats and the triumphs of the Eighth Army, considered by many to be the most remarkable fighting force of World War Two.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /books-plain/1585675377.html (2515 words)

	Eighth United States Army (EUSA)
		As the Army war fighting headquarters for the Korean peninsula, ASCC presents the CINC a set of relevant and complementary capabilities.
		The Army service component serves as the senior Army echelon in a theater and is the Army service component command of a unified command.
		The Korean Augmentation to the United States Army (KATUSA) Soldier Program was initiated in July 1950 by an informal agreement between the Honorable Syngman Rhee, President of the Republic of Korea, and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Commander in Chief, United Nations Command.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/8army.htm (767 words)

	Eighth Army: The Triumphant Desert Army That Held the Axis at Bay From North Africa to the Alps, 1939-45, by Robin ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eighth Army: The Triumphant Desert Army That Held the Axis at Bay From North Africa to the Alps, 1939-45, by Robin Neillands - Military Ink
		Using first hand source material-including personal accounts and interviews with veterans of Eighth Army, Neillands digs deep into the details of the strategies, conflicts, controversies, and politically motivated decisions that plagued, stymied, and galvanized this remarkable group of men.
		In the desperate days between June 1940 and October 1942, Eighth Army — a British force representing the Free World at war — was the only Western army left to face the growing Axis powers.
	www.militaryink.com /books/2004/may/1585675377.htm (283 words)

	Encyclopedia: British Eighth Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Pacific War, which is known in Japan as the Greater East Asia War and in China as the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (kang-Ri zhanzheng, literally Resist Japan War), occurred in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in Asia.
		Alan Cunningham, British Army Officer Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham (1st May 1887 _ 30th January 1983) was a British Army officer noted for victories over Italian forces in the East African Campaign during World War II.
		The Battle of Normandy was fought in 1944 between the German forces occupying Western Europe and the invading Allied forces.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/British-Eighth-Army (2132 words)

	8th Army: Deeds and Dates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Army was now strung across North Africa, from Cairo to Algiers, but with the North African campaign at an end, the Eight Army began immediately to plan its part in the invasion of Sicily.
		The Eight Army then pushed up the difficult road to Messina, and as the Americans were entering the town from the west, Eighth Army troops entered from the south.
		Between August 9 and August 24 the bulk of the Army was secretly switched a cross to the Adriatic sector, and on August 25 the attack was opened on the Gothic Line, which was breached west of Pesaro on August 31.
	www.warlinks.com /pages/8thdeeds.html (1722 words)

	Eighth U.S. Army Augmentation CONUS
		Eighth U.S. Army (CONUS) training USAR soldiers who can immediately deploy and integrate into the Eighth U.S. Army Korea headquarters staff before and upon mobilization.
		The Eighth U.S. Army Augmentation CONUS [EUSAAC] mission is to mobilize and deploy to Camp Walker in Taegu, South Korea to augment and integrate with the staff of the 8th United States Army Korea (EUSA-K).
		Eighth U.S. Army (CONUS) training USAR soldiers can immediately deploy and integrate into the Eighth U.S. Army Korea headquarters staff before and upon mobilization.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/eusaa.htm (357 words)

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		By 6 July it was known that General MacArthur planned to have Eighth Army, with General Walker in command, assume operational control of the campaign in Korea.
		Actually the ROK Army authorities were anxious to do with the units remaining nominally under their control whatever the commanding general of Eighth Army wanted.
		This dual function of Eighth Army-that of combat in Korea and of logistical support for all troops fighting in Korea-led to the designation of that part of the army in Korea as Eighth United States Army in Korea.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/BOOKS/KOREA/20-2-1/sn09.htm (4994 words)

	CHAPTER 5 Eighth Army and Panzer Group Africa \| NZETC
		As late as the end of September, when Eighth Army was born, British strength in the desert was little greater than it had been before battleaxe; in some respects it was less.
		As an anti-tank gun, moreover, the 6-pounder would greatly have increased the value of the infantry of Eighth Army, particularly in the eyes of those who believed that ‘tank units were capable of winning an action without the assistance of other arms’.
		Eighth Army was badly organised to meet this deficiency.
	www.nzetc.org /etexts/WH2Tobr/c5.html (4089 words)

	ipedia.com: British Eighth Army Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Eighth Army was formed in September, 1941, in North Africa, and placed under the command of Lt-Gen Sir Allan Cunningham.
		After losing ground it gained the initiative after the Second Battle of El Alamein under its new commander General Bernard Montgomery, and participated in the ejection of the Axis forces from North Africa.
		Forces from 8th Army were those that finally captured the ancient monastery in the Nattle of Monte Cassino.
	www.ipedia.com /british_eighth_army.html (644 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Early Battles of the Eighth Army: Crusador to the Alamein Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Readers of this author's Eighth Army s Greatest Victories will welcome this latest work covering the difficult early period of what was to become one of the most illustrious formations in British military history.
		Born from the Western Desert force, the Eighth Army was beset with command, equipment and morale problems before it emerged to enjoy glory.
		The book recounts the events of the first year of the Eighth Army's existence when it enjoyed the advantages of superior numbers, superior tanks (contrary to legend), superior intelligence and the support of a more effective air force.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0850528518 (309 words)

	:: Welcome to the Eighth US Army G1/AG :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The command is the successor to a number of units responsible for Army personnel administration in Korea.
		The Eighth US Army G1/AG (Provisional) was activated 15 January 1982 as a major subordinate command of Eighth Army.
		The 1st AG Det (Postal) was transferred to Eighth US Army G1/AG (Provisional) with the new title of ROKA Affairs Directorate, enabling Eighth US Army G1/AG to provide greater efficiency in administrative support for the KATUSA program and supervision of the KATUSA Reception/Training Center at Camp Humphreys.
	www-8perscom.korea.army.mil /Units/about8th_509.asp (528 words)

	Eighth Army: From the Western Desert to the Alps, 1939-1945
		Eighth Army: From the Western Desert to the Alps, 1939-1945
		Robin Neillands brings fresh insightand drama to the story of this remarkable army whose exploits took themfrom North Africa to the Italian Alps, an epic military journey thatspanned six years and 3000 miles.
		A good, eminently readable history which gives the whole picture to the reader,(some histories concentrate on the purveyors view of important events, and miss out some areas..this does not) it makes the reader realise the amount of planning and leadership which built the eighth army, and made it such an effective force.
	i16.jp /file/uk/0719556422.html (460 words)

	Guardian Century \| 1940-1949 \| With the eighth army
		General Montgomery's new appointment is regarded by his soldiers here as an earnest that the new campaign will not be long delayed, that it will be the most important in the war, and that it will be consistently successful.
		It is regarded too by every man in the Eighth Army you speak to as a loss personal to himself.
		Every soldier in his army knows that he will not go into battle until a way has been made for him by air bombing and by artillery concentrations and until every possible supply has been brought to where it will be needed.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Century/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127616,00.html (357 words)

	The Yalu
		The CCF 39th which routed Eighth Army was just part of Lin Piao's Fourth Field Army; a force 600,000 strong, an army which had fought from Manchuria to Hainan Island in China's civil war, without losing one major battle.
		General Walker's Eighth Army was ordered to prepare for a final offensive to end the war.
		But the CCF IXth Army Group, 3 Field Armies with 12 infantry divisions, a total of about 120,000 veteran troops, were moving to meet them.
	www.rt66.com /~korteng/SmallArms/yalu.htm (1052 words)

	DARKMOON
		With this book a member of the U.S. Eighth Army G-3 Miscellaneous Group presents a detailed chronicle of the unit's "dark of the moon" forays deep into North Korea to gather intelligence, conduct raids and sabotage, rescue POWs, and recruit and lead guerrilla armies.
		Both armies were tolerant of the refugees and line-crossers mingled easily with the refugees.
		However, line crossing became too dangerous and ineffective in 1953 when both armies were dug in along static front lines and civilians on both sides were evacuated to the rear.
	www.kimsoft.com /korea/darkmoon.htm (3310 words)

	Eighth Army Headquarters Company - US Army - Korean War Project
		Eighth Army HQ Co Billeted at Korean Palace, Seoul
		Eighth Army HQ Co 30th aaa aw bn pusan korea
		Eighth Army HQ Co Drill team/8th honor guard /51-52
	www.koreanwar.org /html/units/8armyhq.htm (1472 words)

	Eighth Army 11.75" Patch Vinyl Transfer Decal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eighth Army 3.8" Patch Vinyl Transfer Decal
		Eighth Army 5.5" Patch Vinyl Transfer Decal
		Eighth Army 8" Patch Vinyl Transfer Decal
	www.armystickers.com /eiarpade5.html (237 words)

	Eighth Army stands down for safety
		YONGSAN GARRISON, Korea (Army News Service, Jan. 21, 2003) -- Eighth U.S. Army held a stand-down dubbed "New Horizons Day" earlier this month, command officials said, in order to teach, educate and inform soldiers about principles to help ensure mission readiness, training safety, and foster good relations with the people of Korea.
		Training and briefings were conducted Jan. 6 and 7 for all 8th Army soldiers stationed on the peninsula.
		The Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army, KATUSAs, were recognized.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/rok/2003/rok-030121-a20030121.htm (623 words)

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