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	Assault at Seelow Heights
		The Soviet Sixth Army was stalled at the Silesian capital, and Marshal Ivan Konev needed the Sixth for the final drive on Berlin.
		German defenders from a mixed bag of units were armed with stockpiles of Panzerfaust anti-tank weapons.
		German losses at Seelow were also high, with 11,000 of the 18,000 troops positioned on the lower hill dying and the Third Panzer Army suffering a total of 80,000 killed during the week of fighting.
	zhukov.mitsi.com /Seelow.htm (3819 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: U.S. Ninth Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Ninth Army was the fourth US Army to come into action in France, after First Army which had taken part in the initial Overlord landings, Third Army which had first been used just after the breakout from Normandy, and Seventh Army which had landed in southern France on 15 August.
		Ninth Army was isolated from the headquarters of 12th Army Group, and it was thus placed under the command of 21st Army Group along with First Army.
		Late February and Ninth Army launched Operation Grenade, which was the southern prong of a pincer attack coordinated with Canadian First Army, with the purpose of closing the front up to the Rhine.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/U.S.-Ninth-Army (1362 words)

	German Ninth Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ninth Army was activated on May 15, 1940 with General Johannes Blaskowitz in command.
		During Operation Zitadelle, the 9th army was assigned to capture and destroy the Kursk salient.
		The Ninth Army was also involved in the defence of Warsaw and the Battle of Halbe as the German forces retreated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_Ninth_Army (357 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Battle of Verdun, 1916
		The German siege of Verdun and its ring of forts, which comprised the longest battle of the First World War, has its roots in a letter sent by the German Chief of Staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, to the Kaiser, Wilhelm II, on Christmas Day 1915.
		By this stage the German Chancellor, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, was scathing in his condemnation of Falkenhayn’s lack of success in Verdun, which was proving as costly in terms of manpower to Germany as it was to France.
		Falkenhayn was consequently dismissed by the Kaiser and dispatched to the Transylvanian Front on 29 August to command Ninth Army.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/verdun.htm (2238 words)

	Baltic Sea, Russian & German Navies 1914
		, the Germans are in sight of the Polish capital by mid-month.
		With the Germans outnumbered and the Austrians in the south shattered, the Russians attack towards German Silesia on the 11th.
		However German Ninth Army (Gen von Mackensen) has concentrated between Thorn and Posen on the northeastern border of the Polish salient, and attacks the flank of the Russian advance from Poland into Silesia.
	www.naval-history.net /WW1AreaBaltic1914.htm (1506 words)

	Militia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After the war, CMF units continued to form the bulk of the peacetime army, although the creation of standing infantry units — such as the Royal Australian Regiment — from 1947, meant that the regular army grew in importance.
		A large standing army had come into existence by the mid-19th century; the British government of the day commands it and both declares and wages wars.
		Following the creation of a large standing army, the word militia fell into disuse in the UK, although many units retained the distinction of being designated "militia" units as extra battalions of regular regiments and "Irish" militia were heavily relied upon to suppress rebellion in Ireland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Militia (1802 words)

	Welcome to World War II in Europe 1939-1943
		After the signing of the pact, Hitler stated: We, the German Fuhrer and Chancellor and the British Prime Minister have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of the Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for the two countries and for Europe.
		The Germans only had 4,600 men to hold the port and they were hundreds of miles from their supply bases.
		Army Group "B" is to attack Stalingrad, _________ the enemy concentration there and take the town and cut off the ________ between the Don and the Volga." On July 2, the front was widened with attacks to Belgorood and Volchansk, and on July 5, the Don was reached.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageFullText/1,13476,701249,00.html (4754 words)

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		Although the German offensive was called off on July 17th, when Hitler directed the withdrawal of II SS Panzer Corps, the fighting in the salient did not end on that day.
		German 'irreplaceable' losses (dead, missing, and one-third of the wounded) at Kursk and during the retreat to the Kneiper, from July through October, were 350,000, higher than at Stalingrad, where 209,000 (twenty divisions) had been lost.
		The German plan for Citadel involved closing the pincers around the Kursk salient with an attack by Ninth Army on the north and by Fourth Panzer Army on the south, with the intention of meeting east of Kursk.
	www.periclespress.com /Russia_Kursk.html (9595 words)

	Battle of Lodz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Following the collapse of the German offensive on Warsaw, the Russians intended to resume their advance on Silesia as soon as communication had been restored.
		To block this, plans for a new German offensive in Northern Poland were made by Hindenburg, who was appointed to the command of German forces on the Eastern Front on 1 November 1914.
		The operation began on 11 November as the Ninth Army attacked south-east towards Warsaw, with its left on the Vistula.
	www.westernfrontassociation.com /thegreatwar/articles/timeline/lodz.htm (439 words)

	Maps WWII Eastern Front 1942-1943 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		However, the commander of Army Group South, F.M. von Manstein marshaled forces for a counterattack in March 1943 that stabilized the southern wing of the Eastern Front until the Battle of Kursk in July 1943.
		German Ninth Army continued the effort with heavy losses against the stubborn Soviet Central Front defenses.
		Although it failed to encircle significant German forces, the Soviet armed forces trapped the German Army Group A in the Crimea and recaptured Kiev before the end of December 1943.
	www.onwar.com /maps/wwii/eastfront2/index.htm (367 words)

	Foreign Military Studies Office Publications - COUNTERPOINT TO STALINGRAD, Operation Mars (November-December 1942): ...
		Army General M. Purkaev's Kalinin Front was to conduct its main attack south of Belyi with 41st Army and along the Luchesa River north of Belyi with 22d Army, while 39th Army, at the northern extremity of the Rzhev salient, would launch a secondary assault southward across the Molodoi Tud River toward Olenino.
		Although the Germans were unable to close the yawning gap created by 22d Army's attack, the often impenetrable terrain, deteriorating weather, and skillful German defense took a heavy toll on the advancing Soviets and halted them short of their goal.
		German Ninth Army records, however, document the major build-up of forces in the sectors of the 5th and 33d Armies during October and November 1942.
	fmso.leavenworth.army.mil /documents/countrpt/countrpt.htm (12614 words)

	Waffen-SS: Russia, Winter 1941-42
		German units that were caught in the open at nightfall had to endure temperatures below -50¼C (-58¼F), further reducing their numbers and rendering their remaining equipment inoperable.
		In the Army Group South sector, the Leibstandarte and Wiking Divisions were fully committed to the defence of the Mius River line to the west of Rostov.
		As the Soviet pincers closed around the German II Corps, which included the Totenkopf, over the next week Eicke's men were called upon to act as "fire brigades", rushed to threatened sectors to plug breaches in the line.
	www.germanwarmachine.com /waffenss/1941/winter.htm (2560 words)

	Lateline - 20/05/2005: Eastern Front conflict remembered
		Many of the divisions involved in the final assault on the German capital were made up of units that had defeated the German army at Stalingrad.
		The German armed forces never recovered from the loss of an entire army, and by June 1944 the Allied invasion of France stretched the Germans to breaking point.
		The German Ninth Army was massacred outside the city.
	www.abc.net.au /lateline/content/2005/s1373718.htm (595 words)

	1945
		The U.S. Ninth Army capture Essen and the Seventh Army reaches Schweinfurt, 80 miles to the East of Frankfurt.
		The German defence system in NW Germany is now in chaos as troops, civilians and refugees pour west to escape the Russian advance.
		General Blaskowitz, the German C-in-C of the Netherlands, surrenders at a ceremony in the small Dutch town of Wagenungen in the presence of Prince Bernhard.
	www.wargamer.com /ww2timeline/1945western.asp (2849 words)

	Warsaw Uprising - Part 10
		Headquarters of Ninth German Army received an alert-signal informing them that parachutists were being dropped to reinforce the rebels.
		The Germans sent all the weapons and ammunition captured in this way to the Volkssturm (the German Home Guard) they were forming in East Prussia, where they were used against the Russians a few months later.
		After days of skirmishing, the Germans used what remained of their 19th Tank Division, which had been evacuated from Praga, to start one of the heaviest attacks of the whole uprising.
	www.poloniatoday.com /uprising10.htm (1782 words)

	HISTORY OF THE NINTH AIR FORCE
		In effect, the plan was to prepare the Ninth's units for their major role: that of direct tactical support for ground forces in the coming invasion.
		Transfer to the Pacific Theater and invasion of Japan was a sure thing, but thank God our leaders had the fortitude to "pull the string." At the end of August 1945 the survivors had their fondest dreams realized; to return home to loved ones long separated, back to school, and the civilian life longed for.
		For the balance of the 70's and most of the 80's, the Ninth Air Force's efforts were directed to rebuilding the attrition of the Vietnam mission and assimilating a new generation of high tech weapons.
	www.ninthairforceassoc.org /history.htm (1919 words)

	The Battle of Germany
		On March 24, 1945, Lieutenant General William H. Simpson's U.S. Ninth Army struck at the Ruhr and headed for Lippstadt.
		Mannheim was captured by the U.S. Seventh Army on March 29th, and Nuremberg was taken on April 20th, and Munich on April 30th.
		The 2nd Armored Division of the Ninth Army established a bridgehead at the Elbe River, and were close to Magdeburg.
	library.thinkquest.org /26742/batger.html (917 words)

	The Centennial: Omar Nelson Bradley
		Under command of George Patton's Seventh Army, Bradley's corps was in the vanguard of the Operation HUSKY assault, and it moved inland against negligible resistance.
		German losses were not substantially higher than American losses in the fighting, but the battle cost the Germans the bulk of their skilled troops, eradicated their operational reserve, and destroyed great quantities of modem equipment.
		In January 1945, having defeated the German winter attacks, Bradley began a series of continuous offensives that smashed through the Siegfried Line, crossed the Rhine, crushed the remains of the German forces in the Ruhr, and finally met the Soviets on the Elbe River.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/bradley/bradley.htm (7564 words)

	Warsaw Offensive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In addition, the Russian Tenth Army had invaded part of East Prussia and was engaging the few German troops who remained to defend it.
		The German forces thus relieved were sent to reinforce Mackensen's troops, which had been ordered on 12 October, to halt and dig in.
		To meet this threat, the German Ninth Army was moved north-west to the Posen-Thorn area were Hindenburg was planning an attack against the Russian right.
	www.westernfront.co.uk /thegreatwar/articles/timeline/warsaw.htm (550 words)

	Warsaw Uprising - Part 9
		When Ninth Army Command learned that the Poles (understandably) mistrusted the SS and did not wish to negotiate with them they agreed with this, too.
		For the period in question German air-reconnaissance had established that the Russians had sixty airfields with 2,400 machines in the area around Warsaw and in front of German Ninth Army.
		They hindered the Germans in their drive eastwards, the Russians in their advance to the West, and Britain and the U.S. in their alliance with Moscow.
	www.poloniatoday.com /uprising9.htm (2254 words)

	Glossary of Events: WWI: Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Russia entered the first world war with the largest army in the world, standing at 1,400,000 soldiers; when fully mobilized the Russian army expanded to over 5,000,000 soldiers (though at the outset of war Russia could not arm all its soldiers, having a supply of 4.6 million rifles).
		The German High Command, realising a war with two fronts would be impossible maintain, told the troops on the Western Front to dig in and hold their ground — a shifted their attention to Russia.
		The German Army followed at the heels of the retreating Russians, but by the end of September the German advance halted to reinforce all the gains it had made: the new front was established from the Southern border of the Russian state of Moldavia straight up to kilometers outside Riga in Latvia.
	www.marxists.org /glossary/events/w/ww1/russia.htm (1231 words)

	The Face of Battle Skirmish WarGaming
		The German “sickle-stroke” that split the French forces in half sliced directly through the heart of the French Ninth Army.
		By May 18th, the Army was pressured by the XV Armeekorps to the north, cut off from the south, and under constant attack by Gruppe von Kliest.
		In an effort to save this hopeless situation facing the Ninth Army, the 1ère Division Légère Mécanique was quickly attached to the Army on May 17th.
	www.thefaceofbattle.com /products/16407.html (1729 words)

	PhilipGerard.com -- author of SECRET SOLDIERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The armored offensive separated the American armies, leaving U.S. First and Ninth Armies on the northern flank of the "Bulge" with the British and Patton’s Third Army to the south.
		Ninth Army remained attached to the British command in the north, while Gen. Omar Bradley’s two American armies, First and Third, punched through in the south.
		Their armies were usually loose associations of local nobles, backed by personal contingents of vassals and peasants.
	www.philipgerard.com /new/exc.htm (10288 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Second Battle of the Marne, 1918
		After it became clear that the Germans had not only failed in their aim to win the war in this offensive, but had in fact lost ground, a number of German commanders, including Crown Prince Wilhelm, believed the war was lost.
		With the Germans having ultimately failed in their efforts to break through, Ferdinand Foch, the Allied Supreme Commander, authorised a counter-offensive on 18 July, launching 24 divisions of the French army alone, in addition to U.S., British and Italian troops and some 350 tanks.
		Berthelot's French Fifth Army and Eben's Ninth Army meanwhile launched subsidiary attacks in the west.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/marne2.htm (804 words)

	Joseph L Begin 180th Engineer Battalion
		Battalion was relieved of assignment to Third Army and assigned to Ninth Army.
		By 1945, the First, Third, Seventh, Ninth, Fifteenth, and First (Allied) Airborne Armies were operational in the ETO, the Fifth was in the MTO, the Sixth, Eighth, and Tenth were in the PTO, and the Second and Fourth Armies were in the United States with training missions.
		With few exceptions, all the armies and corps were organized by the AGF or existed in the Regular Army or Organized Reserves at the start of the war.
	graywolf1.home.pipeline.com /joebegin.html (2490 words)

	Slaughter at Halbe: The Destruction of Hitler's 9th Army,April 1945Â Sutton PublishingÂ from Things Rooster
		To escape the Spreewald pocket the remnants of Ninth Army had to pass through Halbe, where barricades constructed by both sides formed formidable obstacles and the converging Soviet forces subjected the area to heavy artillery fire.
		By the time Ninth Army eventually escaped the Soviet pincers, it had suffered 40,000 killed and 60,000 taken prisoner.
		While army commanders strive to extricate their decimated units, demoralised soldiers change into civilian clothing and take to the woods.
	www.thingsrooster.com /details/0750936894.html (828 words)

	Antony Beevor
		German forces in Holland, NW Germany and Denmark surrender to Field Marshal Montgomery on Luneberg Heath.
		OKH Oberkommando des Heeres, in theory the supreme headquarters of the German army, but in the later stages of the war its most important role was operational command of the Eastern Front.
		Army Each German army, usually varying in strength between 40,000 and over 100,000 men, has its name written in full in the text: e.g.
	www.antonybeevor.com /Berlin/berlinannex.htm (1405 words)

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