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	Lone Sentry: Now It Can Be Told! 14th Armored Division
		The VI Corps was on the right, with its flank on the Rhine, and had under its command the 3d, 45th, 79th and 103d Inf.
		VI Corps, which had withdrawn to Maginot positions in the Windstein-Brevenbach-Soufflenheim sector, was engaged in bitter fighting from Sarreinsburg to Dambach.
		General Brooks, commanding VI Corps, received authority to move one normal combat command plus a tank destroyer battalion east of the Vosges, but the remainder of the division was not to be moved except on Army authority.
	www.lonesentry.com /unithistory/nowitcanbetold/index.html (7320 words)

	VI Corps (ACW) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The VI Corps (Sixth Corps) was a corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War.
		Despite being the largest corps in the Union army at the time, the VI Corps was held in reserve to the east of Gettysburg, excepting 's Brigade, which was sent into action as a support to the XII Corps; several casualties, also occurred in 's and 's Brigades, of Newton's Division.
		The VI Corps was disbanded on June 28, 1865.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/VI_Corps_(ACW) (1835 words)

	Encyclopedia: US-VI-Corps
		The stiffness of the German defences sorely tested VI Corps and it suffered heavy casualties before German attempts to throw the Allied force back into the sea were thwarted by a combination of naval gunfire, bombing and the approach of British Eighth Army from the south.
		Operation Dragoon was aimed at capturing the south of France, and VI Corps provided the assault troops, coming under Seventh Army.
		VI Corps spent the rest of the war as part of Seventh Army, operating on the southern end of the Allied front against the Germans in the west.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/US_VI_Corps (514 words)

	WILDERNESS - LoveToKnow Article on WILDERNESS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Hooker detached 10,000 cavalry under Stonernan and Sedgwicks corps (30,000) to demonstrate on his flanks along the Rapidan and at Fredericksburg, while with the remainder he moved up the Rappahannock and crossed that river and afterwards the Rapidan and on the 3oth of April fixed his headquarters at Chancellorsville, a farmhouse in tile Wilderness.
		corps on the right and Wadsworths division (V. corps) on the left, both of which units were still groping their way forward in the woods, was forced back with heavy losses.
		corps went on to Gales or Gayles house, where the enemys skirmishers were driven in.1 The news of an enemy opposing Burnside at Gate, which Grant still supposed to be the position of the IX.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WI/WILDERNESS.htm (5888 words)

	VI Corps (ACW) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The VI Corps (Sixth Corps) was a (An army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions) corps of the (The northern army during the American Civil War) Union Army during the (Civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865) American Civil War.
		The corps was organized as the Sixth Provisional Corps on May 18, 1862, by uniting Major General (Click link for more info and facts about William B. Franklin) William B. Franklin's Division, which had just arrived on the (Click link for more info and facts about Virginia Peninsula) Virginia Peninsula, with Maj. Gen.
		Despite being the largest corps in the Union army at the time, the VI Corps was held in reserve to the east of Gettysburg, excepting Alexander Shaler's Brigade, which was sent into action as a support to the XII Corps; several casualties, also occurred in Henry L. Eustis's and Frank Wheaton's Brigades, of Newton's Division.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/vi_corps_(acw)4.htm (2185 words)

	VI Corps
		During the 1990-1991 Gulf War, the I, V, and VI Corps were "hollowed out" during the course of the buildup to provide troops for the Kuwaiti theater.
		The Iraqi VI Corps covered Iraq from south of Baghdad to the northern boundary of the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations.
		At least one source claims [apparently in error] that at the time of the Gulf War the II Corps was responsible for the southern Iranian front,, and that VI Corps was responsible for the Syrian front, where it commanded a total of six infantry divisions of the regular army.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/6corps.htm (131 words)

	The Fall of Petersburg
		Total losses in the VI Corps this day were 1,081; Confederate casualties were not reported, but a single VI Corps division (Getty's) claimed to have taken 2,100 Rebels prisoner, and some estimates place Rebel losses in the 5,000 range.
		Wright felt that VI Corps was not ready for any further combat that day; his men had been up for almost 18 hours straight, and had been fighting and marching since before 5:00 that morning.
		VI Corps had fought itself out making the initial breakthrough, IX Corps was bogged down east of the city, XXIV Corps had worn itself out taking Fort Gregg, and II Corps had spent the morning wandering back and forth.
	members.aol.com /siege1864/final.html (3636 words)

	U.S. VI Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the VI Corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War, see VI Corps (ACW)
		Following the capture of Rome, VI Corps again left the line, and again prepared for an amphibious assault, its third and last of the war.
		The landing was not opposed with much fervour, and VI Corps swept up the Rhône valley to join forces with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's troops coming from Normandy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/US_VI_Corps (520 words)

	47th PA Regiment, Battle Of Cedar Creek VA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Horatio Wright, commander of the VI Corps, was left in command of the army, his headquarters at Belle Grove, south of Middletown.
		The VI Corps was on the far right of the Union infantry on the hills north of Meadow Brook.
		The VI Corps was deployed on the left, adjacent to the Valley Pike, with the XIX Corps on the right.
	www.enter.net /~rocketeer/cwccreek.html (1810 words)

	ipedia.com: US Fifth Army Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		VI Corps was withdrawn from the line and replaced by the French Expeditionary Corps under General Alfonse Juin.
		VI Corps landed at Anzio on 22 January 1944 in Operation Shingle, and suffered many of the same problems as had been seen at Salerno.
		In the end, VI Corps was withdrawn, forming the nucleus of the field forces of the US Seventh Army for the invasion of the French Riveiera, Operation Dragoon.
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	HyperWar: American Forces in Action: Anzio Beachhead: The Major German Offensive (16-20 February 1944)
		Allied air reconnaissance disclosed to VI Corps the regrouping of enemy forces, the forward movement of field artillery, and the movement of heavy traffic on the railroads and roads leading from the area of Rome to the beachhead.
		Corps artillery was strengthened by the arrival of the 977th Field Artillery Battalion, and antiaircraft units were built up steadily to aid in combatting the enemy's raids on the harbor area.
		VI Corps was forced to defend a front of nearly thirty-five miles with less than five divisions of troops, many of whom had been in the line continuously for nearly a month; at the same time it had to maintain an adequate reserve.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-A-Anzio/USA-A-Anzio-4.html (10787 words)

	HyperWar: American Forces in Action: Anzio Beachhead: VI Corps Holds The Beachhead (20 February-3 March)
		On 19 February VI Corps ordered the 35th Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade to assemble a force of 30 officers and 650 enlisted men to work on defenses and to be on 2-hour alert for use as Corps reserve.
		It was important that VI Corps retain control of the left shoulder and particularly of the network of dirt roads leading south to the final beachhead line.
		VI Corps, anticipating the attack on the 3d Division, had matched the shift of enemy guns to the east by moving the 27th and 91st Armored Field Artillery Battalions to the vicinity of Conca where they could thicken the fire of the 3d Division artillery.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-A-Anzio/USA-A-Anzio-5.html (7683 words)

	SEDGWICK, JOHN (1813—1864) - Online Information article about SEDGWICK, JOHN (1813—1864) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Soon afterwards he was given command of the VI.
		CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat.
		Grant became commanding-general and the Army of the Potomac was reorganized in three corps, the VI.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SCY_SHA/SEDGWICK_JOHN_18131864_.html (592 words)

	COMMAND 22: Antietam - Replay
		VI Corps reinforced XII Corps in it's push for Dunker Church and West Woods.
		Dunker Church was thus abandoned to the Confeds and VI Corps retreated, holding the line between East Woods and Sunken Road.
		To take an objective with a Corps is fine, the problem is if there is still oposition in the area and you have to withdraw the Corps, you have to have another committed Corps to replace it on the frontline or risk losing the objective.
	grognard.com /xtr/reviews/antietam.html (854 words)

	62nd New York Volunteer Infantry
		The 62nd NY was transferred to the VI Corps of the Army of the Potomac, where it remained for the remainder of the war, except for brief service with the Army of the Shenandoah.
		The VI Corps had earned distinction for heroism on numerous fronts and earned a reputation as one of the best and toughest units in the Union Army.
		When General Philip Sheridan was assigned the mission of destroying the breadbasket of the Confederacy, he asked for, and received, the use of the VI Corps for his campaign in the Shenandoah Valley.
	www.io.com /~jhaller/acw/62-ny.html (380 words)

	Forcing the Vosges Passes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Within the Seventh Army sector, the XV Corps, on the left of the VI Corps, began operations to penetrate the Saverne Gap, leading to Strasbourg.
		VI Corps troops faced the high Vosges barrier between the two passes on the right of its line, but on the left the principal effort of the Corps was directed into Saverne Gap.
		General Brooks, the Corps Commander, was apprised of the situation and told that if he would permit it, the Division would attack across the Meurthe and strike for St. Marie Pass.
	www.kwanah.com /txmilmus/36division/archives/vosges/forcing.htm (2931 words)

	Fifth Army At The Winter Line:Attack by VI Corps(15-21 December)
		THE DRIVE BY II CORPS in the San Pietro area was to be accompanied by a full-scale offensive on the part of VI Corps in the mountains to the north (Map No. 21, page 68).
		During the night of 14/15 December the French forces of VI Corps on the north assumed the offensive, and by early morning elements of the 8th Rifle Regiment had taken over Mount Castelnuovo and gone on to seize San Michele Pass.
		VI Corps' offensive farther south opened with an attack toward the village of Lagone, lying within a draw running west between Hill 769 and La Bandita.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/winterline/winter-attack.htm (2807 words)

	"AXIS & FOREIGN LEGION MILITARIA
		Still under the direction of VI SS Corps, the 19th SS Division was ordered to cross the west bank of the River Daugava (which cut through Riga in the northwest).
		In January 1944 the designated "VI Waffen-Armeekorps der SS Lettische" was responsible in coordinating the efforts of both Latvian Divisions in holding the southern sector of the "Panther Line" a defensive perimeter under the 18th German Army.
		In October 1944, Riga fell to the Russian forces and the VI SS Corps was forced to form part of the Courland defense until the end of the war.
	axis101.bizland.com /Latvian19Feldpost.htm (590 words)

	Death of an American Combat Command
		Edward H. Brooks' VI Corps held the remainder of the line, from the French town of Bitche to Lauterbourg, at the junction of the French-German border and the Rhine River.
		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.
		On January 7, the German LXIV Corps crossed the Rhine south of Rheinau, threatening the VI Corps' rear.
	www.thehistorynet.com /wwii/blHerrlisheim (1051 words)

	Interior Lines
		For example, while the VI corps is shown as covering Sickles' Hole, only one of the VI corps divisions was on the left flank.
		While Longstreet's I corps started from further back on July 2, he was able to bring his full I Crop onto the single Union III Corp. It took a good size chunk of two other Union corps and a retreat to the fishhook line to recover the situation.
		These three corps were also somewhat intermixed, as reinforcing units of the II and V corps had been thrown into holes in the III corps line on an emergency basis.
	polyticks.com /Hole/Cyber/Interior.htm (823 words)

	80th Infantry Regiment New York
		On the morning of May 5, 1864, the Union V Corps attacked Ewell’s Corps on the Orange Turnpike, while A.P. Hill’s corps during the afternoon encountered Getty’s Division (VI Corps) and Hancock’s II Corps on the Plank Road.
		The II Corps forced a crossing of Totopotomoy Creek in two places, capturing the first line of Confederate trenches, but the advance was stopped at the main line.
		In the meantime, the V Corps, moving near Bethesda Church on the far left flank of the Union army, was attacked by Early’s corps.
	home.earthlink.net /~tsini1/id15.html (750 words)

	Combat Support in Korea: PART VI Ordnance Corps
		The commander of X Corps (Lt.Gen. Edward M. Almond) has asked two of the regimental commanders of the division about their ordnance support and they had told him that the company might as well have stayed in Japan: the units of their regiments never saw it and they did not feel it was supporting them.
		The normal mission of the company was to handle battlefield recovery of tanks and to augment the recovery facilities and corps and divisional ordnance units.
		In November 1950 a transportation battalion commander came to his corps headquarters complaining that almost all the vehicles in one of his companies were headlined, and he wondered "how in hell" he was going to do his job if Ordnance didn't keep his vehicles running.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/korea/22_1_6.htm (5617 words)

	Army Corps
		VI Corps headquarters moved to Germany where it assumed a new occupational sector with headquarters at Schwäbisch Gmünd.
		The instructions defined the boundaries of XV Corps' temporary occupational sector and instructed the corps to enforce the terms of surrender, occupy its assigned sector as far south as the Salzach-Enns River Line and assume command of the sector at 1800B, 11 May 1945.
		On June 29, II Corps assumed command of the area and the troops under XV Corps control and established its CP at Salzburg.
	www.usfava.com /USFA_ArmyCorps.htm (4593 words)

	The Infamous Union Attack
		Warren pleaded that his V Corps was too dispersed to attack, and other corps commanders hinted that prospects were not encouraging, but they did not specifically state that an attack was foolhardy.
		The Union VI Corps attack was in the direction of the road on the right of the picture, but advanced little beyond this point.
		The Union VI Corps in front of this position shifted some units and increased fire as their "attack".
	johnsmilitaryhistory.com /cold6-3.html (995 words)

	General der Infanterie Artur Arz von Straussenburg
		Corps through some of the toughest trials any Corps had to face, until he was ordered to organise a new I. Army in Transylvania in August 1916.
		Corps had a serious role to play in the critical battle of Gorlice-Tarnow, fought decisively during the Dunajec Offensive.
		Corps ever since his daring rescue of the situation during the Battle of Limanowa some five months earlier.
	www.geocities.com /veldes1/arz.html (1161 words)

	VI Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		List of military corps — List of military corps by number
		A number of countries have Sixth, or VI, Corps:
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/VI_Corps (87 words)

	Mont St. Jean AAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The French I Corps became shaken in attacking the Allied left, managing in the process to shake the Artillery Reserve but not much damaging the Anglo-Allied I Corps.
		The French II Corps eventually captured two southernmost hexes of Hougomont at significant cost, wavered on border of being shaken for a few hours, and then went over about 1800.
		The attack of the Guard was last hope of French, as I Corps was shaken, II Corps was very close to being shaken, Cavalry reserve was scattered all over (and anyway, British have high cohesion ratings making it easy to form square as charge develops), and VI Corps was detailed to right flank.
	www.cstone.net /~jsetear/games/waterloo/MSJ_AAR.htm (850 words)

	battle of Cedar Creek
		Horatio Wright, commander of the VI Corps, was left in command of the army, his headquarters at Belle Grove, south of Middletown.
		The VI Corps was on the far right of the Union infantry on the hills north of Meadow Brook.
		The VI Corps was deployed on the left, adjacent to the Valley Pike, with the XIX Corps on the right.
	www.angelfire.com /va3/valleywar/battle/cedarcreek.html (2134 words)

	Old Dominion Brigade: From the Wilderness to Petersburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		That same day Grant hurled his V and VI corps over the North Anna near Jericho Ford, but A.P. Hill failed to concentrate his troops and throw the Yankees back across the river.
		On June 15, the XVIII Corps, of the Army of the James, made the first Union assault on the city's defenses.
		The divisions attacked, striking the VI Corps and sending the Yankees back to their lines on the Jerusalem Plank Road.
	www.thehistorynet.com /acw/blold_dominion_brigade/index2.html (929 words)

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