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	U.S. Militaria Forum > 12th Army Group
		The 12th Army Group was the largest and most powerful American formation ever to take to the field.
		After the breakout from beach-head at Normandy, the 12th Army Group occupied the center of the Western Front to the North was the British 21st Army Group and to the south, after their breakout from the Mediterranean coast, was the US 6th Army Group.
		As the 12th advanced through Germany in 1945, it controlled four field armies: US First Army; US Third Army; US Ninth Army and US Fifteenth Army.
	www.usmilitariaforum.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t444.html (200 words)

	British 21st Army Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This was to have been the northern part of a pincer movement, with the US Ninth Army moving northwards towards Dusseldorf and Krefeld (Operation Grenade), to clear the west bank of the Rhine, north of Cologne.
		Canadian First Army wheeled left and liberated northern Holland, British Second Army occupied much of north-west Germany and liberated Denmark, and US Ninth Army formed the northern arm of the encirclement of German forces in the Ruhr pocket and, on 4 April, reverted to Bradley's 12th Army Group.
		It was redesignated the British Army of the Rhine on 25 August 1945, and would eventually form the nucleus of the British forces stationed in Germany throughout the Cold War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_21st_Army_Group (1058 words)

	US Ninth Army
		The US Ninth Army was one of the main US combat commands used during the campaign in northwest Europe in 1944 and 1945.
		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.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/u/us/us_ninth_army.html (546 words)

	US First Army
		The Army then passed from the control of 21st Army Group to the newly arrived 12th Army Group.
		When the Germans attacked during the Battle of the Bulge, First Army found itself on the north side of the salient, and thus isolated from 12th Army Group, its commanding authority.
		First Army was slated to deploy to the far east to take part in Operation Coronet, the second phase of the invasion of Japan, but the Japanese surrender in August caused those plans to be cancelled.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/u/us/us_first_army.html (611 words)

	Friday, August 4, 1944
		The US 8th Corps (part of US 3rd Army) occupies Rennes and continues to advance toward Vannes.
		Elements of the British 21st Army Group capture Evrecy and Villers Bocage.
		South African forces of British 13th Corps (part of US 5th Army) enter Florence, capturing districts to the south of the Arno River line being held by German forces.
	www.onwar.com /chrono/1944/aug44/04aug44.htm (203 words)

	U.S. 12th Army Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 12th Army Group was the largest and most powerful American formation ever to take to the field.
		12th Army Group occupied the right flank of the Allied lines in Normandy, and the centre of the Allied line after 6th Army Group came into the line.
		At its peak it controlled four field armies, US First Army, US Third Army, US Ninth Army and US Fifteenth Army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_12th_Army_Group (117 words)

	Normandy, British, Isles, Inshore, Thane, Manners, Walpole, Icarus, Amethyst, Hart, Peacock, Starling, HMS
		US First Army's push east is stopped on the 7th when the Germans strongly counter-attack through Mortain towards the American bottleneck at Avranches.
		The US 12th Army Group is the next to go on the 23rd, with US First and Third Armies aiming for the Rhine between Cologne and Koblenz.
		At the beginning of the month, the British 21st and US 12th Army Groups are still trying to reach the west bank and by the 10th stand along most of its length from Nijmegen down to Koblenz.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsWFront1944.htm (6282 words)

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		The US 3rd Army (Patton) continues its headlong advance in northwest France as the US 4th Armored Division (US 8th Corps) moves to Vannes and Loreint, the US 6th Armored Division nears the western end of the Brittany peninsula, and the US 15th Corps captures Laval.
		The US 15th Corps is redirected north to sweep behind the German 7th Army left rear and close with the Canadians in order to encircle the Germans.
		Fuel reserves to the US 3rd Army are becoming critical, but Patton orders his armored spearheads to continue the advance east and when they run out of gas, they are to abandon their tanks and continue the attack on foot.
	www.bartcop.com /arc4408.htm (3176 words)

	Jedburgh team operations in support of the 12th army group, August 1944
		It took a directive from the 12th Army Group to establish that the FFI were allies and not enemies.
		It tells us that the SF detachment was unaware of the difficulties in operating agents and networks in eastern France and Belgium, of the previous troubles SOE had encountered there, and of the very difficult time the CITRONELLE Mission (and Team Andrew) had in the Ardennes.
		The U.S. Third Army used large bodies of resistance troops to assist in the reduction of German garrisons of the Breton seaports and subsequently used some 15,000 FFI troops to guard the Loire River line as the U.S. Third Army swept east toward the German border.
	cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/Lewis/Lewis.asp (20254 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: The Supreme Command (ETO) [Chapter 22]
		To the south of the 12th Army Group, General Devers was ordered to protect the right flank of the main advance and he prepared to move through the Danube valley to link up with the Russians.
		Further, since the 12th Army Group commander intended to bring up the Fifteenth U.S. Army to assume the occupation duties of the First and Ninth Armies in the Rhineland, he would need control of the three armies in order to co-ordinate their relief.
		Worse still, his army group lost all connection with Army Group G to the south, and there was danger that the Allied advance in the north, which seemed to proceed "like a peacetime maneuver, executed with all technical means of modern warfare," would soon separate his forces from the army group in the north.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-E-Supreme/USA-E-Supreme-22.html (2889 words)

	First US Army Group
		The First US Army Group was activated 1943 in London, England to prepare the plans for the invasion of the European continent.
		Omar Bradley's headquarters deployed to England in October 1943, and Bradley took on the dual task of First Army commander and acting commander of the skeletal 1st U.S. Army Group (subsequently redesignated the 12th Army Group).
		Although its staff was largely transferred to the Twelfth Army Group in July 1944, the First US Army Group continued to exist on paper as a deception device until its inactivation on 18 October 1944.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/fusag.htm (306 words)

	Introduction - June to September 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Following a co-ordinated offensive, in which the British 21st Army Group attacked in the east to draw in the German armoured reserves, the 12th US Army Group succeeded in breaking through the German line in the west on the 31st July.
		With the 1st Canadian and 2nd British Armies attacking them from the north, the Americans proceeded to encircle the German 7th Army from the south, trapping and cutting it to pieces in the Falaise Pocket.
		Field Marshal Montgomery, commanding the 21st Army Group, of which the 2nd British Army was a part, felt that with Oberbefelshaber West in such disarray, priority of supplies should be given to a single army to enact a plan that would deal the enemy a decisive blow and quickly end the War.
	www.arnhemarchive.org /depth_intro.htm (1540 words)

	World War 2 at Sea - 1944, Normandy, Invasion, D-day, Falaise, Paris, Leyte Gulf (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On the 1st, Army units are carried across the Scheldt to land on the south side, while Royal Marines are put ashore to the west (at Westkapelle) against tough resistance.
		US Submarine Operations - By the end of the war, Japan's merchant marine almost ceases to exist, a significant factor in eventual defeat.
		US submarines account for 60 percent of sinkings as well as a third of warships.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2194406-2.htm (5121 words)

	Army Corps
		The Division's final objective, a junction with 5th Army troops near the Brenner pass, was accomplished in the morning of May 4 when an advance party of the 103rd met a patrol of the 88th Infantry Division (5th US Army) near Colle Isarco in South Tyrol (south of the Brenner Pass).
		(Third Army had been instructed by 12th Army Group to assume responsibility for the areas in Austria occupied by US forces until the 15th Army Group was ready to assume its occupational role in the US Zone in Austria.) XV Corps was ordered to occupy, organize and govern the Austrian province (Gau) of Salzburg.
		Under the guidance of German staff officers from the First German Army, which had been in the area at the time of the surrender, the German soldiers held in the PW enclosures were organized into companies, German officers were placed in charge and convoys were organized with the Germans using their own vehicles.
	www.usfava.com /USFA_ArmyCorps.htm (4593 words)

	Doers & Dreamers
		To keep alive the spirit of the pioneers, he formed "The Society of the Sons of Daniel Boone." This group grew to become the largest boy's club in America.
		Bradley was a US Army officer who commanded the highly effective 12th Army Group, which helped ensure Allied victory over Germany during World War II.
		Under his leadership, the US 12th Army Group, the largest force ever placed under an American group commander, successfully carried out operations in France, Luxembourg, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, and Czechoslovakia.
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	Axis History Forum :: View topic - "W" glacis Shermans with added armor
		There were 40 with the First Army (which had lost 6 to 28 November and 8 to 5 December), 59 with the Third Army (5 had been lost to 25 November and 6 to 2 December), and 30 with the Ninth Army (3 had been lost to 28 November), a total of 129.
		Tank units in the ETO with Jumbos on hand (the assignment of units to armies is as of mid December).
		It appears probable that the remaining 24 of the 60 allocated to the Ninth Army were never in fact shipped, given the strategic situation in mid December, the losses sustained to date, and the reduction in the number shipped from 254 to 250.
	forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=39555 (2039 words)

	USFA History - Page 2
		On May 12 1945, Seventh Army was withdrawn from 6th Army Group and placed under the control of 12th Army Group in Wiesbaden.
		The 12th Army Group, commanded by Gen Bradley, was headquartered at Wiesbaden, and commanded the four Armies (First, Third, Ninth and Fifteenth) that comprised the center of the VE-Day battle line (12th Army Group's front was 550 miles long).
		On 26 July, 12th Army Group became nonoperational, with the transfer to US Forces, European Theater (USFET) of the third, Seventh, Ninth and Fifteenth Armies.
	www.usfava.com /USFA_History2.htm (452 words)

	8 April History: This Date
		With the US embroiled in the Korean War, the walkout loomed as an ill-timed irritant to the government's battle against communism.
		The US troops mistook them for Iraqi guerilla spotters for snipers which the US soldiers erroneously thought were shooting at them from the hotel.
		He was promoted to commander of the US 12th Army Group, the largest force ever placed under an American group commander, and led successful operations in France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Czechoslovakia.
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	The Wargamer - Historical Article: The Famous Fourth: The 4th Infantry in Normandy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The beginning of August marked the standup of the US 12th Army Group to oversee the US 1st and 3rd Armies.
		While the 3rd Army was running amok both to the west in Brittany and to the east towards Le Mans, the 1st Army faced greater resistance as they drove toward Vire and Mortain, the latter being the VII Corps objective.
		The 4th Division, with CCB of the 3rd Armored Division attached, was to attack through Viledieu-les-Poeles to St. Pois and hence across the See River while the 1st Infantry Division moved around the flank and eventually "pinched" off the 4th Division.
	www.wargamer.com /articles/4th_infantry/page7.asp (665 words)

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		In contemporary discussions with "ground" and "air" people--regardless of the country--the ground officers generally have little faith in the abilities of their own air force to prevent an enemy air force from devastating them and to undertake any sort of equally devastating attack upon enemy ground forces.
		The proliferation of light flak in the world's armies by the end of the 1930s had a drastic impact upon subsequent CAS and BAI operations.
		At Khe Sanh, intensive US Air Force-Navy-Marine Corps CAS/BAI strikes prevented a repeat of the Dien Bien Phu experience and, indeed, enabled Khe Sanh to accomplish what the French at Dien Bien Phu had tried and failed to achieve: create a magnet for the attraction, concentration, and destruction of enemy forces.
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	British Army of the Rhine and 21st Army Group [UK]
		fought in NW Europe to the end of the war (US 1st Army attached for the invasion phase and separated Aug. 1944 to form US 12th Army Group with US 3rd Army and 9th Army)
		NATO's Northern Army Group (NORTHAG) formed with BAOR as its main element and C-in-C BAOR always as its C-in-C; BAOR ceased to by an occupation force and became responsible for the northern front from Hamburg to Kassel in the event of a Soviet invasion
		British Army of the Rhine, by Pete Feeney.
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	331crc (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jul 1942: Activated at Camp Crowder, MO. 1944-45: During World War II, the 114th was one of several radio intelligence units allocated in support of 12th US Army Group.
		Jan 1946: Reorganized and redesignated as the 114th Signal Service Co. Oct 1951: Converted and redesignated as the 331st Communications Reconnaissance Company and allotted to Regular Army.
		Oct 1983: 307th Bn was reorganized and redesignated as 307th MI Bn however, the 331st ASA Company did not make the transition to the new battalion and was deactivated.
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