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	World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After the collapse of the Munich agreement in March 1939, when German armies entered Prague and proceeded to occupy the remainder of Czechoslovakia, Poland and France pledged on May 19, 1939 to provide each other with military assistance in the event either was attacked.
		Meanwhile Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands fell quickly against the attack of German Army Group B. The BEF, encircled in the north, was evacuated from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo.On June 10 Italy joined the war attacking France in the south.
		German forward units had advanced within distant sight of the golden onion domes of Moscow's Saint Basil's Cathedral, but then on December 5, the Soviets counter-attacked and pushed the Axis back some 150-250 kilometers (100-150 mi), which became the first major German defeat of World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_War_II (9566 words)

	List of armies by number: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The german sixth army (german: 6.armee oberkommando) was a world war ii field army and the protagonist of the tragic battle of stalingrad in 1942....
		The indian army is the army of the republic of india....
		The imperial japanese army (dai-nippon teikoku rikugun) was in existence from the meiji reformation to...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_armies_by_number.htm (1191 words)

	Fourteenth Army
		And the Germans were prepared to repulse an Allied invasion with several infantry and panzer divisions, not to mention beach obstacles and huge coastal artillery forts.
		The American Fourteenth Army included XXXIII Corps (17th Division, 59th Division) and XXXVII Corps (25th Division, 11th Division, 48th Division), while the British 4th Army was composed of 2nd Corps (55th Division, 61st Division, 80th Division, 35th Division), 7th Corps (5th Division, 58th Division), and 2nd Airborne Division.
		German agents caught by the British and now "turned" were used to radio bits and pieces of information about chance encounters with talkative officers, observed troop movements, bumper numbers seen parked at a pub, rumors of high-ranking visits to such-and-such a division, and so on and so on.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/14army.htm (1270 words)

	History of Germany
		German strategists felt that a war against these countries had to be waged by 1916 if it were to be won because after that year Russian and French military reforms would be complete, making German victory doubtful.
		Because the German dukes had grown stronger both during and after the Investiture Contest and because royal access to the resources of the church in Germany was much reduced, Frederick was forced to go to Italy to find the finances needed to restore the king's power in Germany.
		German settlement in areas south of the territories controlled by the Knights of the Teutonic Order also continued, but generally at the behest of eastern rulers who valued the skills of German peasant-farmers.
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	5th Army History • Conclusion
		Without their automatic weapons and crew-served pieces the German forces were incapable of effective resistance, but some rifles and pistols were left with them at this stage for protection against the partisans and for maintenance of discipline, which remained a function of the German command.
		During the German retreat the majority of the enemy formations had withdrawn into the mountains in the II Corps zone; the main German hospitals, with approximately 25,000 patients and attendants, were in the Bolzano-Merano area; and the line of communication personnel were largely concentrated on the Brenner route.
		The German patients and medical personnel in the Army area were gradually concentrated in the Merano area and from there evacuated to Germany by hospital train.
	www.milhist.net /mto/racealps.html (4274 words)

	chronology2
		Three armies were involved which met with some success but were quickly blocked by the strength and depth of the Russian defenses, and by the fact that the Russians had learned of the entire plan from a defector..
		Sept.11, 1943: Sardinia was evacuated by the Germans.
		With the German evacuation, the city was spared the devastation of comba, although Germans withdrawing northward from Rome were hit steadily by Allied aircraft.
	www2.bc.edu /~heineman/chronology2.html (21323 words)

	HyperWar: American Forces in Action: Anzio Beachhead: The Breakthrough
		German efforts to sow discontent among the Allied troops at the beachhead were singularly unsuccessful.
		The Hermann Goering Panzer Division was rushed southward from Leghorn; and Fourteenth Army planned to detach combat units from I Parachute Corps, holding the Moletta River-Albano road sector, to bolster the shattered forces of LXXVI Panzer Corps on the Cisterna front.
		In a change of Corps boundaries, Fourteenth Army assigned the sector west of Colli Laziali to I Parachute Corps, and the sector to the east to LXXVI Panzer Corps.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-A-Anzio/USA-A-Anzio-6.html (6842 words)

	List of armies by number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		List of armies — List of armies by number
		This is a list of armies arranged by ordinal number.
		This page was last modified 16:27, 18 July 2005.
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	Assault
		When intelligence reports indicated a large German build-up in the northern region of the Serchio Valley, the men of the 371st were transferred to the coastal sector, and elements of the 366th were sent to the valley to support the 370th.
		Although the primary German assault seemed to come from west of the river, toward Gallicano, partisans were also battling enemy soldiers north of Sommocolonia later in the morning.
		German artillery fire began to cut deeper into American lines, and the 370th ordered its troops to quit Gallicano and secure the high ground nearby.
	www.indianamilitary.org /92nd/WW2/Assault.htm (4156 words)

	Amazon.com: Stormtroop Tactics : Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918: Books: Bruce I. Gudmundsson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		It covers the German Infantry's tactical heritage, the squad's evolution as a tactical unit, the use of new weapons for close combat, the role of the elite assault units, and detailed descriptions of offensive battles.
		The Germans were always innovators when it applied to warfare, in WWI with the trench war at a stale mate the Germans formed these elite infantry "Stormtroop" units to infiltrate and breakthrough the lines to make way for their follow on troops.
		The German Army of World War I created some of the most basic principles of what we call today 3rd Generation Warfare, which many armies worldwide are still unable to implement or even understand its essence.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0275954013?v=glance (2165 words)

	3 February 1944
		As dusk fell last night those soldiers were suffering a massive artillery barrage as the German Fourteenth Army prepared a full-scale counter-attack on the British salient.
		Every German gun was trained on the "thumb" created by the British 1st Division on 30 January in an abortive attempt to reach Campoleone.
		In a special order of the day Stalin has announced the trapping of ten German divisions in the Dniepr Bend in the biggest encirclement since Stalingrad.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1944/02/03.htm (331 words)

	Army Air Forces in World War II
		In the autumn of 1944, while Eisenhower's forces drew close to the German border, Allied soldiers in Italy began their assault on the Gothic Line.
		To further isolate the Germans, Allied bombers attacked industrial areas in north west Italy and destroyed every rail bridge over the Ticino River between Lake Maggiore and the Po.
		The day after Christmas, the German Fourteenth Army turned and struck the Americans outside Bologna, but within two days they pulled back to new defensive positions.
	www.usaaf.net /ww2/africa/africapg9.htm (356 words)

	(About Us > History) Battle Boars - 1st BN, 30th Infantry :: Fort Benning, GA - US Army ::
		It was at this time that future General of the Army George C. Marshall joined the regiment as a second lieutenant and was assigned to Company L as a platoon leader.
		The German artillery preparation wiped out every trench, but the infantry in its pits and nests, despite heavy losses, accounted for more than its members in German dead, and turned back the attack of a division (taking 200 prisoners in action).
		The broken chevron at the bottom of the canton represents the part the Regiment took in pushing back the point of the German drive at the Marne on 15 July 1918, for which the Regiment was cited by the French in the Orders of the Army shown by the pendant Croix de Guerre.
	www.ga.net /battleboars/history.html (3005 words)

	barganews.com information about the medieval city of Barga (LU) Tuscany Italy
		When a massive German assault was launched on this windswept mountain village in December 1944, a scant two platoons of American infantrymen were dug in here.
		A mile to the north of Sommocolonia was the forward encampment of the German Fourteenth Army, which had been instructed not to take prisoners from the 92nd Division because its soldiers were fl, and by official Nazi standards not fully men.
		Six miles miles to the south was the command post of the American Fifth Army, which refused to provide either reinforcements for the besieged troops in Sommocolonia or blood transfusions for their wounded.
	www.barganews.com /fox (2104 words)

	Otto von Below German Otto von Below WWI History of World War I
		Pitting him against the manifestly stronger British in March 1918 - during the great German push of that spring, the Kaiserschlacht Offensive - the German High Command apparently expected von Below to pull another rabbit out of the hat, as at Caporetto.
		Below was expected to overrun Arras during March 1918; his inability to do so led to the failure of the German campaign to capture the Somme that same month.
		Ending the war from October 1918 in command of First Army, Below oversaw the retreat of the Germans from Reims to positions preparatory for a last stand defence of German territory.
	tbone.8m.com /ottobelow.html (306 words)

	Union Army Ring
		The Congressionally-chartered SUVCW was created in 1881 by the Grand Army of the Republic (Union Veterans) and is the legal heir to the GAR.
		We portray the unit as it was after it was pulled from the defense of Washington D.C. in June 1864 to bolster the infantry of General Grant's Army of the Potomac for the Battle of Cold Harbor.
		This site is dedicated to researching the men of the 9th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Ohio's first all-German regiment, and one of many all-German regiments that served in the Civil War.
	k.webring.com /hub?ring=unionarmy (1842 words)

	African-American 92nd Infantry Division in Italy
		Of the 909,000 fl Americans selected for duty in the Army during World War II, only one fl division saw infantry combat in Europe--the 92nd Infantry Division.
		Kesselring had built the line on the slopes of the Apennine Mountains, the 50-mile-deep range that, in northern Italy, runs diagonally from coast to coast and affords natural protection for northern industrial and agricultural centers.
		The Buffalo Soldiers were assigned to the IV Corps of the U.S. Fifth Army in two primary areas of operation, the Serchio Valley and the coastal sector along the Ligurian Sea.
	historynet.com /wwii/bl92infantry (1349 words)

	UFO ROUNDUP Volume 7 Number 45
		Jordanow, the Beskidy Mountains and the entire region between Krakow and the Alpine-resort community of Zakopane, on what is now the border between Poland and Slovakia, fell to the Nazis in the early days of the war.
		On September 6, 1939, the German Fourteenth Army, under Field Marshal Wilhelm von List, captured Zakopane and Jordanow.
		The Germans fired them at a test range at Przezeck Krowiarki (pass) towards the Tatra Mountains.
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