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	Jacob L. Devers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Devers was born in York, Pennsylvania, died in Washington, D.C. and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
		Devers commanded the 9th Infantry Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina from November 15, 1940 to July 15, 1941.
		On August 14, 1941 Devers, the youngest major general in the Army's land forces, was posted to Fort Knox, Kentucky to head the Armored Force.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacob_L._Devers (320 words)

	General Jacob Devers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jacob L. Devers, then the youngest major general in the Army's land forces, assumed command of the Armored Force at Ft. Knox.
		General Devers' boundless energy coupled with a keen mind and outstanding organizational ability proved equal to the task of developing and expanding the Armored Force far beyond he concepts of the initial planners.
		One of Gen. Devers' organizational innovations at Ft. Knox was the addition of light aircraft to armored field artillery battalions to increase the mobility of firepower of the armored division artillery.
	www.trailblazersww2.org /divisionhistory/devers.htm (505 words)

	VIPs: Slide 1 of 13
		Jacob Loucks Devers (1887-1979) graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1909.
		As a second lieutenant of field artillery, Devers was assigned in Hawaii, France, and Germany in the early 1900s.
		As the youngest major general in the Army's land forces, he was posted to Fort Knox, Kentucky in 1941 where he elevated its two armored divisions to 16 divisions and 63 separate tank battalions.
	www.dogfacesoldiers.org /vips (211 words)

	Bob's WWII Timeline
		It seems Gene had not written Bob and Bob was pulling rank and quoting army regulations 350-75 that stated that correspondence between brothers is a dire necessity.
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	okielegacy.org /unclebob/ww2timeline.html (3322 words)

	Southern France Campaign
		Devers, who had headed the American effort in Britain, moved to the Mediterranean to become deputy theater commander under its new British chief, General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson.
		General Devers, as commander of the U.S. Services of Supply in the Mediterranean, refused to reallocate the supplies and equipment that had already been gathered for the landing.
		Of course, the campaign might well not have taken place at all without the efforts of General Devers to continue preparations for ANVIL after its abrupt cancellation in April.
	www.45thdivision.org /CampaignsBattles/southern_france.htm (9050 words)

	Ardennes-Alsace Campaign
		Jacob L. Devers' 6th Army Group in the Alsace region would also launch attacks and additional Rhine crossings from their sectors.
		Eisenhower ordered Devers to assume the front of two of Patton's corps that were moving to the Ardennes, and then on the twenty-sixth he added insult to injury by telling the 6th Army Group commander to give up his Rhine gains by withdrawing to the Vosges foothills.
		Craven and James L. Cate, eds., Europe: ARGUMENT to V—E Day, January 1944 to May 1945 (1951), the third volume in the Army Air Forces in World War II series, and the British perspective and operations are covered in L. Ellis, Victory in the West: The Defeat of Germany (1968).
	www.45thdivision.org /CampaignsBattles/ardennes_alsace.htm (15376 words)

	Operation Dragoon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The final go-ahead was given at short notice.
		The U.S. 6th Army Group, also known as the Southern Group of Armies and as Dragoon Force, commanded by Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers was created in Corsica and activated on August 1, 1944 to consolidate the combined French and American forces that were planning to invade southern France in Operation Dragoon.
		At first it was subordinate to AFHQ (Allied Forces Headquarters) under the command of Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson who was the supreme commander of the Mediterranean Theater.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Dragoon (963 words)

	Arlington
		High military and civilian government officials, including General Jacob L. Devers, Chief of the Army Field Forces, four other generals, and a number of Congressmen, will be Among the unprecedented number of persons to pay final homage to the two Nisei heroes.
		The final charge which resulted in the rescue of the beleaguered Battalion was led almost entirely by enlisted men of Japanese ancestry after nearly all the Battalion's officers became casualties.
		The Department of the Army which is making the ceremony an occasion of great significance has designated the following to be honorary pallbearers; General Jacob Devers, Army Ground Forces Chief, who commanded the Sixth Army Group under which the 442nd fought in France; Maj. Gen.
	home.att.net /~hirasaki3/Saburo_Tanamachi/Arlington.htm (627 words)

	Anzio
		Assisting the landing was to be a major Fifth Army attack on the main front and a demonstration on the part of General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Eighth British Army (deployed beside the Fifth), both designed to pin down the enemy troops in south Italy.
		Jacob L. Devers, deputy theater commander to General Wilson, visited Lucas on 16 February.
		Lyman L. Lemnitzer, General Alexander's American deputy, also felt the Allies did not have the strength to hold the Alban Hills.
	darbysrangers.tripod.com /id109.htm (9984 words)

	Generals
		In September 1941, Gen. Jacob L. Devers requested that Gen. Brooks be named to the staff of the new armored force being formed at Ft. Knox, Ky. With this came promotion to Brigadier General.
		Jeffares, Emory L., S/Sgt.: (5 March 1922 to 9 Nov. 2000) He was born 5 March 1922 to Emory Lee Jeffares and Mary B. Pipper.
		It was men like Sgt. Emory L. Jeffares that made up the members of the 2nd Armored Division's early on, and under Gen. George Patton became the very best Armored Division that the United States had to offer in WW 2.
	2ndarmoredhellonwheels.com /war_stories/generals.html (11069 words)

	Armored History
		Troops L and M of all regiments were disbanded and the number of privates in each of the other companies was reduced to 44, in effect a reduction of about 50 percent.
		Troops L of the 1st through the 8th Cavalry were reactivated with Indian enlisted personnel drawn, as nearly as possible, from the area in which each regiment was serving.
		Nevertheless, due partly to the language barrier and partly to the general attitude that existed between the two races, the experiment failed and the last unit of this type, Troop L, 7th Cavalry, was disbanded in 1897.
	www.cavhooah.com /armored_history.htm (20784 words)

	PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Spring 1997
		The task of the great World War II coalition was certainly made simpler by the two principal Allies speaking the same language and sharing a common culture and common values.
		(Complications arose later with the integration of French forces in General Devers' 6th Army Group.) One must recall, too, that commanders had in many cases been promoted rapidly up the ranks, reflecting the needs of the large wartime armies, and the staffs were generally composed of officers with limited troop and staff experience.
		Jacob L. Devers, "Major Problems Confronting a Theater Commander in Combined Operations," Military Review, 27 (October 1947), 3-4.
	carlisle-www.army.mil /usawc/parameters/97spring/rice.htm (6157 words)

	World Wars I and II
		Jacob L. Devers, who is best remembered for his command of the 6th Army Group in Europe during World War II, graduated from the US Military Academy in 1909.
		With his twelve American and eleven French divisions, Devers cleared Alsace, reduced the Colmer pocket, crossed the Rhine River and accepted the surrender of German forces in western Austria on 6 May 1945.
		Thoroughly the infantryman, Manton S. Eddy served in France in World War I in rifle and machine gun units.
	cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil /carl/resources/ftlvn/ww2.asp (5799 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| World War II \| World War II: American VI Corps Fought the Battle for Herrelsheim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		While the world's attention was riveted on the bitter struggle for the Ardennes, the Germans launched an unexpectedly strong counteroffensive against Devers' forces on the southern flank of the Allied line in Alsace.
		The series of attacks, which started on December 31, 1944, collectively came to be known by the Germans' name for the first of those attacks, Operation Nordwind ("North Wind").
		On January 5, the XIV SS Corps under General Otto von dem Bach attacked across the Rhine at Gambsheim and into the VI Corps' eastern flank.
	www.thehistorynet.com /wwii/blHerrlisheim (1156 words)

	jun1143
		General Noce is in the European theatre on the staff of Major General Jacob L. Devers, as chief of amphibious operations of the United States army.
		Timothy L. Mulligan read the history of the command on war front activity of troops who began training here.
		General Walter L Weible, director of army training; Brigadier A. Williams of the New Zealand joint staff commission; Brig.
	www.armyamphibs.com /html/jun1143.htm (2034 words)

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		Devers, Jacob L. “Address to Armor Association.” Armor 62 (Mar/Apr 1953): pp.
		Jacob L. Devers (18871979) p.2 Markey, Michael A. Jake: The General From West York Avenue.
	www.carlisle.army.mil /usamhi/bibliographies/ReferenceBibliographies/Biographies/deversjacob.doc (278 words)

	PHMC: Pennsylvania History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		After Mitchell, John L. Lewis led the union for many years and membership spread throughout the bituminous areas.
		The chief of staff, General of the Army George C. Marshall, was a native of Uniontown, and the commander of the Army Air Forces was General of the Army Henry H. Arnold, born in Gladwyne.
		Pennsylvania also had three full generals: Jacob L. Devers, from York, commander of the Sixth Army Group; Joseph T. McNarney, from Emporium, Deputy Allied Commander in the Mediterranean; and Carl Spaatz, from Boyertown, commander of the American Strategic Air Forces in Europe.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /bah/pahist/industry.asp?secid=31. (6371 words)

	Operation Grenade
		But on 2 February, at a meeting on the Mediterranean island of Malta, the Combined Chiefs of Staff of the United States and Great Britain approved the specifics of Supreme Commander Eisenhower's plan for a drive to the Rhine; a staggered attack starting at the north to be joined step by step to the south.
		The plan was for a major offensive to be put into effect and to start with Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Twenty-first Army Group, at the northern end of the front facing Germany.
		Next in line was the Sixth Army Group, on the south end of the line, commanded by Lt. General Jacob L. Devers, and it was to remain on the defensive until Bradley reached the Rhine.
	www.104infdiv.org /grenade.htm (2025 words)

	EqualIsland
		Devers, Jacob L. At the outbreak of World War II (1940), Devers was commanding general of the 9th infantry division, becoming chief of armoured forces from 1941 to 1943.
		Devers, Jacob L. Zittel, Karl Alfred, Ritter (knight) Von
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	equalisland.blogspot.com (372 words)

	Army Air Forces in World War II
		Jacob L. Devers to get answers to the questions.
		Devers arranged for a courier to fly from England that night to bring sketches of a ski site to the United States.
		Marshall realized that the British were not sharing information immediately, partly because of their own internal disagreements over what the photographic evidence revealed, and he recommended to U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson that he appoint a U.S. committee to assay the V weapon threat independently and to suggest a course of action.
	www.usaaf.net /ww2/preemptivedefense/pdpg4.htm (3478 words)

	A Pledge Betrayed: John McCloy
		According to McCloy, his reason was to preserve the historical medieval walled city.
		Additionally, McCloy ordered Major-General Jacob L. Devers that he could not use artillery in taking Rothenburg.
		The city would have to be liberated by infantry alone regardless of the cost in lives of GIs.
	www.spiritone.com /~gdy52150/betraylp9.htm (3873 words)

	Armor
		The rightful importance of these factors was brought into focus by MAJ GEN Jacob L. Devers, Field Artillery, when he became the second Chief of the Armored Force in August 1941.
		MAJ GEN Allan C. Gillem, Jr., Infantry, was made acting chief in May 1943, when GEN Devers took command of the European Theater of Operations.
		The Armored Force was redesignated the Armored Command on July 2, 1943, and Gillem became its commanding general.
	www.fightingknights.com /ar.html (1475 words)

	Truman Library - Karl R. Bendetsen Oral History, November 9, 1972
		Truman knew these subjects were included among my duties while I served under the command of General John L. DeWitt (the Commanding General of the Fourth U.S. Army and the Western Sea Frontier).
		Devers took over command of the U.S. forces on the Mediterranean littoral.
		While in London, General Devers (when he was European Theater Commander), and his general staff had many direct communications with the C.O.S.S.A.C. staff.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/bendet2.htm (13980 words)

	GI -- World War II Commemoration
		Eisenhower assumed his new position on Jan. 16, 1944, and General Devers was transferred to North Africa as commander of United States forces in the Mediterranean.
		John L. De Witt was rushed to England in order to give continuing verisimilitude to the Allied deception measures.
		The two armies of General Devers' Sixth Army Group meanwhile had swung southeastward from their Rhine bridgeheads to sweep to the Swiss border and eventually to enter Austria and link with Allied forces in northern Italy.
	gi.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_5.html (18839 words)

	Welcome to 753 rd Tank Batallion
		6th ARMY GROUP, GERMANY--A stubborn German resistance was transformed into willing surrender when tankmen of the 753 rd Tank Battalion recently covered U.S. Seventh Army doughboys of General Jacob L. Devers's 6th Army Group in a crossing of a Rhine River tributary.
		Pvt Orville P. Jones pvt Robert W. Jones (B) Warren J. Jones Pvt James Lee Jordan (C) Pvt Paul O. Jordan (C) Pfc Fritz L. Juengling (B) PURPLE HEART KANCAR (C) KIA Luther B. Keay (B) Robert Kelly (A) pvt Joseph L. Kendall (B) Pvt Joseph L. Ketterer Oliver Kellerman Lt.
		Mendenhall---p52 T4 Edwin L. Mendenhall (c) Louis B. Meng (S) James L. Mercer (S) Pfc Fred W. Messick (B) Pvt Max Mess(S) Corp Henry H. Mickle (B) pvt Joseph A. Middleton (B) T5 John M. Migeot (B) 2ndLt.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageFullText/1,13476,733011,00.html (1494 words)

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		All of this recognition was overshadowed by the attack on December 16, 1944 in the Ardennes forest by a German force of three-to-one superiority in men and a four-to-one advantage in tanks the panzer tank units stave in 3 American divisions, then burst into the rear.
		Devers 6th Army Group was to occupy the area vacated by the 3rd Army units, halt all offensive operation ie: the West Wall offensive.
		In fact when I was in Company L of the 409th, I shot the M1 left-handed with those hot casings arching over the bridge of my nose.
	www.pierce-evans.org /remembrances5.htm (19947 words)

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		They were the first Japanese American soldiers to be buried at Arlington Cemetery.
		At the funeral, General Jacob L. Devers, Chief of Army Field Forces, who commanded the Sixth Army Group under which the 442nd RCT fought in France, eulogized the Army’s tribute to the Nisei stating that “There is one supreme and final test of loyalty to one’s native land.
		This test is readiness and willingness to fight for and, if need be, to die for one’s country.
	home.att.net /~hirasaki/Support_Letters/2003-2004/JACL_Chapters/JAVA2.doc (523 words)

	HyperWar: Strategic Air War...Germany & Japan [Chapter 2]
		Sir Hastings L. Ismay, Churchill's military assistant, who attended the meetings of the British Chiefs of Staff Committee.
		Frederick L. Anderson and myself), representatives of the Air Ministry and RAF Bomber Command, and a representative from the British Ministry of Economic Warfare.
		Eaker and Devers became a unified command team whose binding elements were dedication to
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