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  U.S. Ninth Army -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The US Ninth Army was one of the main US combat commands used during the campaign in northwest (The 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles) Europe in 1944 and 1945.
The first responsibility for Ninth Army, upon its arrival on 5 September was to take part in the final reduction of the German forces holding out in the French port of (A port city in northwestern France (in Brittany); the chief naval station of France) Brest.
Ninth Army was isolated from the headquarters of 12th Army Group, and it was thus placed under the command of (additional info and facts about 21st Army Group) 21st Army Group along with First Army.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/U/U/U.S._Ninth_Army1.htm   (567 words)

  
 US Fifteenth Army   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The US Fifteenth Army was the last field army to see service in northwest Europe during World War II.
Fifteenth Army never entered the main line of battle.
Gerow remained in command of Fifteenth Army until November 1945.
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 U.S. Third Army -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Third Army was disbanded in July 1919, as the need for a headquarters of that level to control the American occupation forces in Germany was not evident.
Third Army was shipped from the US to the (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) United Kingdom.
When Third Army was moved to (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) France, it was just after Bradley's formations had achieved the breakout from (A former province of northwestern France on the English channel; divided into Haute-Normandie and Basse-Normandie) Normandy.
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 FIFTEENTH ARMY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Within a 1/8 inch (.32cm) olive drab border a pentagon 1 13/16 inches (4.60cm) on a side, divided per saltire and charged with the letter "A" 1 7/8 inches (4.76cm) in height, all counterchanged red and white.
Symbolism: The insignia is in the colors of an army.
The division per saltire and the five sides of the pentagon are suggestive of the numerical designation of the organization while the letter "A" indicates that the organization is an army.
www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil /Army/15th%20Army.htm   (89 words)

  
 Army
The Third Army served as a tactical field army and also as ARCENT, the U.S. Army component command of CENTCOM during the Persian Gulf war.
The numbered field army function of operational control of subordinate forces was not separate and distinct, but was integrated into the other responsibilities of Army component and TA.
Third Army served as the Army component command, the theater army and as a numbered field army.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/army.htm   (831 words)

  
 gue 25th inf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It joined Grant's army at Grand Gulf and participated in the brilliant campaign which drove Pemberton's army behind the entrenchments of Vicksburg, but was not engaged in any of the battles until May 22d.
The regiment was with the army in the march to Savannah and at Wright's Bridge had a short convict with a regiment of cavalry, putting it to flight.
Soon after the capture of Columbia the army continued its march northward meeting the enemy at Con Bridge on the 20th of March, where the Twenty-fifth Iowa was in the thickest of the fight.
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 gue 15th Iowa Inf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
After Halleck's slow march on Corinth and its evacuation by Beauregard's army, the Fifteenth was one of the regiments left to occupy the place.
On the 21st of April the Fifteenth was sent to Milliken's Bend; Colonel Reid was in command of a brigade and the Fifteenth, under Lieutenant-Colonel Belknap, was in the Iowa Brigade, then commanded by Colonel Chambers of the Sixteenth.
Wood's Division of the Fifteenth Corps, in which were several Iowa regiments and an Iowa brigade, charged on the advancing enemy with great fury and regained the broken line, recapturing several guns that had been taken.
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 Ecuador Army - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, ...
The army was the dominant service; its personnel strength of approximately 40,000 in 1989 was nearly four times the combined strength of the navy and air force, and its commander normally held the rank of four-star general.
The army deployed two jungle brigades in the Oriente (eastern region): the seventeenth ("Pastaza"), with headquarters at Mera, and the nineteenth ("Napo"), based at Puerto Napo.
The army's standard infantry weapons consisted of the Belgian FN FAL 7.62mm rifle and the Israeli Uzi 9mm submachine gun, the latter employed for counterinsurgency operations.
www.photius.com /countries/ecuador/national_security/ecuador_national_security_army.html   (473 words)

  
 Tactical Air Power...Vogel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The 346th Infantry Division from Fifteenth Army reserve, the only unit to be transferred from Fifteenth Army, was sent to the extreme eastern side of the landing area.
At the same time, however, Fifteenth Army received two divisions, one from Norway, the 89th and one from Denmark, the 363rd, as well as having two new ones created in its area, the 6th Parachute and 136th Infantry.
When the reserves of the Fifteenth Army were finally released in the middle of July, some of the units crossed the Seine southwards.
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 Fifteenth army air corps Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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War II Harry was urged by many people to join the army "to teach geography to generals".
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 The 15th Infantry Regiment - Can Do History
Overall strength of U.S. Army Troops in China, of which the 15th was the major component, was approximately 1,000 during most of this assignment in China.
The 15th Infantry Regiment was relieved from the U.S. Army Troops in China and departed China for Fort Lewis, Washington, on 2 March 1938.
The 3rd and 4th Battalions, both active in the Army Reserve, were deactivated in December 1965 as part of a reorganization of the Army Reserve and National Guard.
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 The West on the Eve of D-Day, 1944
Seventh Army was notified by Rommel of Hitler's concern, and the army ordered the deployment of one parachute regiment and two separate battalions in the immediate vicinity of Cherbourg.
On the contrary, a Seventh Army proposal on 5 May to shift the whole of the LXXIV Corps from Brittany to Normandy in case of large-scale landings in the LXXXIV Corps sector was rejected by Field Marshal Rommel.
Despite Seventh Army's report that obstacles on the shoreline and in fields suitable for airborne landings were complete by the middle of May and needed only deepening, it was precisely that deepening which alone could have made them effective.
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 Formations of the United States Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of historical units of the United States Army.
U.S. Seventh Army - active in Europe as the command formation for U.S. forces in Italy and Germany
Additional fictitious divisions belonging to the non-existent U.S. Fourteenth Army were created as part of the Operation Quicksilver deception in 1944.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Formations_of_the_United_States_Army   (344 words)

  
 Italian Resistance
The Fifth Army's historian expressed the opinion that if General Clark had chosen to pour in fresh troops to expand the salient into a breakthrough to Imola and Highway 9, he could have posed a genuine threat to the Germans.
Tiehle nevertheless whisked the shavetail partisan to Eighth Army headquarters, where Bulow's plan to save Ravenna was so professionally traced on operational maps he was soon conferring with the Army's chief of staff, its chief of operations, and its new commanding general, Sir Richard L. McCreery.
With the German lines broken south of the Po, both Allied armies now sought to encircle as many units as possible before Lieutenant General von Vietinghoff--who had inherited Army Group "C" from Kesselring after its veteran commander was called to the Western Front to try to stem Eisenhower's advance--could withdraw them north of the Po.
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 chatt-sherman
Statement of ammunition expended by the Army of the Tennessee during the engagements of the 24th, 25th, and 27th of November, 1863.
The Fifteenth Corps is destined for Chattanooga for offense, but an object is gained by threatening Trenton, as though this corps meditated to attack the enemy on Lookout by ascending at Trenton.
The Fifteenth Army Corps, re-enforced by one division of the Army of the Cumberland, is to cross the Tennessee at the mouth of East Chickamauga Creek, advance and take possession of the end of Missionary Ridge, viz, from the railroad tunnel to Chickamauga, hold, and fortify.
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 Iowa History Project
On the 22d of December the Twenty-fifth attached to the Second Brigade under General Hovey, First Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps, moved down the rive with the expedition under General Sherman to Chickasaw Bayou to which was unsuccessful, meeting with but slight loss.
It joined Grant’s army at Grand Gulf and participated in the brilliant campaign which drove Pemberton’s army behind the intrenchments of Vicksburg, but was not engaged in any of the battles until May 22d.
In December the regiment was with the army in Savannah and In January, 1865, started on the march through the Carolinas, sharing the labors, hardships and battles of that campaign and at Bentonsville ended its brilliant fighting career.
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 William Tecumseh Sherman's Report of Missionary Ridge (Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign)
On the 30th, the army moved to Charleston, General Howard approaching so rapidly that the enemy evacuated with haste, leaving the bridge but partially damaged, and 5 car loads of flour and provisions on the north bank of the Hiwassee.
Before day they were off, and at daylight the Fifteenth Army Corps was turned from Philadelphia for the Little Tennessee, at Morganton, where my maps represented the river as very shallow, but it was found too deep for fording, and the water freezing cold.
I cannot speak of the Fifteenth Army Corps without a seeming vanity, but, as I am no longer its commander, I assert there is no better body of soldiers in America than it, or who have done more or better service.
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 Patton Bio and Speech
He commanded the Seventh army during the invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and served in this capacity until March 1944, when he was given command of the Third Army, which became operational in France in August 1944.
Corps and Army Commanders must make it a point to be physically seen by as many individuals of their command as possible -- certainly by all combat soldiers.
Once all armies were in place on the continent Bradley was to assume command of 12th Army Group with both armies under him, and Hodges would command 1st Army.) Also secretly, with many leaks, he was in command of the First U.S. Army Group (FUSAG) which was to ‘invade’ France at Calais.
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 93rd Illinois Infantry
On the morning of the 20th, General Sherman gave his army commanders orders to prepare for attack on the enemy's lines around the city, and started, by water, for Port Royal, to confer with General Foster and Admiral Dahlgren about measures necessary to close up the enemy's avenue of escape toward Charleston.
No army was ever under better discipline than this one; otherwise, that march could not have been so promptly executed as it was.
After the army entered, and while it occupied the city of Savannah, there was no breach of good discipline; nor were there then any complaints of bad discipline from any quarter.
www.illinoiscivilwar.org /cw93-hist-ch9c.html   (2213 words)

  
 THE ARDENNES: BATTLE OF THE BULGE (III)
Subsequently Hitler added the Fifteenth Army for a special role, although it would appear that he did not intend to take the Fifteenth away from Army Group Student until after the battle was joined.
This unit, the 21st Panzer Division, belonged to Army Group G and was committed as a roving halfback, stiffening those parts of the line where attacks by the Third and Seventh U.S. Armies threatened to penetrate.
The Fifteenth Army, however, was not to be employed until the Allies had reacted in force to the German attack, and in any case could not be expected to launch a large-scale attack until the Allied front east of Aachen had been drastically denuded of troops.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/7-8/7-8_3.htm   (7062 words)

  
 Third United States Army   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Commander, Fifteenth Army, and President of the European Theater General Board.
General Patton demonstrated the prowess of American arms by leading 3rd Army to the continent to exploit the St. Lo breakout.
Patton and the 3rd Army in the Bulge.
www.arcent.army.mil /history/com_bios/cg_gspatton.html   (1801 words)

  
 U.S. Fifteenth Army - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
U.S. Fifteenth Army - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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 Military Writings of Leon Trotsky: Order 162a   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
At the moment when the initiative passed to us in the Petrograd direction, the Fifteenth Army (commanded by Kork, with Kuk as chief of staff), held the front between Lake Pskov, Seltso, Batetskaya station and Lake Velye.
Given its situation in relation to the line of the enemy’s principal blow, this army was able by moving straight ahead to threaten Yudenich’s deep rear and communications.
The Fifteenth Army was ordered by Western front headquarters on October 24 to attack in the Luga-Pskov sector.
www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/works/1919-mil/ch149.htm   (282 words)

  
 USAREUR - Cities - Frankfurt
The French Army lived in the kaserne for 12 years when, with the resurgence of German military might and world prominence, it withdrew to French territory.
Gen George S. Patton was appointed Commander, Fifteenth Army, and President of the European Theater General Board on 14 October 1945.
The Fifteenth Army consisted solely of a small staff quartered at Bad Nauheim, in the interior of Germany.
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 The History Buff, Original Historical Autographs, Manuscripts and Letters
Early in 1944 he was given command of the 3rd Army, which spearheaded the spectacular sweep of U.S. forces from Normandy through Brittany and North France, relieved Bastogne in Dec., 1944 (see Battle of the Bulge), crossed the Rhine (Mar., 1945), and raced across South Germany into Czechoslovakia.
However, press reports of the news conference ignored General Patton's core concern and concentrated instead on a statement that was taken out of context, implying that he was pro-Nazi, rather than concerned for the expansion of Soviet hegemony across Western Europe.
Letters from Patton on Fifteenth Army letterhead, his last command, are very uncommon, as he was fatally injured in an automobile accident in Germany weeks after assuming command.
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 Army Of The Southwest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Steele served with distinction in Missouri, and was given a division in the Army of the Southwest in May, 1862.
His appointment of brigadier-general of volunteers was dated March vice was chiefly in the Southwest, in the Army of the Southwest, the Thirteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth corps, the Districts of Arkansas, and of Little Rock.
For short periods he was at the head of the Army of the Southwest and of the left wing of the Sixteenth Corps.
www.civilwarhome.com /armyofsouthwest.htm   (636 words)

  
 Fifteenth Army - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Fifteenth Army - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
This page was last modified 10:29, 26 Feb 2005.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Fifteenth_Army   (98 words)

  
 math lessons - German Fifteenth Army
The German Fifteenth Army (German: 15.Armee Oberkommando) was a World War II field army.
The Fifteenth Army was activated on January 15, 1941 with General Curt Haase in command.
First seeing service in France, the army was involved in the protection of the Channel coast from a possible Allied invasion.
www.mathdaily.com /lessons/German_Fifteenth_Army   (139 words)

  
 U.S. 65th Infantry Division - tScholars.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Shoulder sleeve patch of the United States Army 65th Infantry Division.
The 65th Infantry Division—nicknamed the Battle-axe—was an infantry division of the United States Army that served on World War II.
On 9 May, as hostilities officially ended in Europe, the troops of the 65th made contact with the Russians at Erlauf.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/U.S._65th_Infantry_Division   (466 words)

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