The 21st Army Group was a British headquarters formation formed during the Second World War. It controlled two field armies and other supporting units...
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Seventh Army and the French First Army; the 21st Army Group comprised the British Second Army, the Canadian First Army and the US Ninth Army. In both...
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included with the British Second Army and the First Canadian Army in the British headquarters formation 21st Army Group, commanded by General Bernard Montgomery...
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The 21st Special Service Group (Abbr.: 21 SSG, Malay: 21 Gerup Gerak Khas), also known as the Grup Gerak Khas and the 21st Special Forces Group, serves...
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21st Army may refer to: 21st Army (Wehrmacht) 21st Army (Soviet Union) Twenty-First Army (Japan) 21st Army Group, Britain 21st Group Army, China This...
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Army Group Activated in November 1943. On 12 November 1944 redesignated Allied Land Forces South East Asia 15th Army Group 18th Army Group 21st Army Group...
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Allied army groups; the Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group (Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery) in the north, the United States U.S. 12th Army Group (Lieutenant...
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Montgomery. Within 21st Army Group the Canadian First Army (under Harry Crerar) held the left flank of the Allied line, with the British Second Army (Miles C....
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Allied 21st Army Group (Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery) crossed the Rhine in Operation Plunder on 23 March. The lead elements of the two Allied army groups...
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switched to XVIII Corps, US First Army, 12th Army Group — and later that day to XVIII Corps, US First Army, 21st Army Group. On 18 January 1945, the alignment...
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Tactical Air Force (2 ATAF), British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) and Royal Air Force Germany (RAFG). Previously, 21st Army Group had been on the left flank of the...
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increased the formation's apparent size to be larger than the British-led 21st Army Group under Bernard Montgomery. Patton was considered by the Germans to be...
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The 15th Army Group was an army group in World War II, composed of the British Eighth Army and initially the Seventh United States Army (1943), replaced...
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Other Armies that came under command of 21st Army Group were the First Allied Airborne Army, the U.S. First Army for Overlord, and the U.S. Ninth Army; as...
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armies of the 21st Army Group, while its parent army group (the 12th) was on the south side of the salient with the rest of the 12th's armies. Footnotes...
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First Army returned to the command of 12th Army Group, but Ninth Army remained under the command of 21st Army Group for the remainder of the Rhineland Campaign...
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of staff. British general Bernard Montgomery was in charge of the 21st Army Group which included all the ground forces in the operation. Montgomery was...
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21st Army Group First Canadian Army Second British Army US 12th Army Group First United States Army Third United States Army Ninth United States Army...
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operations of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery's Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group in the Western Allied invasion of Germany from 8 January 1945 until...
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The 21st Army (German: 21. Armee) was a German field army in World War II. On 27 April 1945, towards the end of the war in Europe, the 21st Army was formed...
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Bernard Montgomery (category British Army personnel of World War I)
shoulder of the Bulge. Montgomery's 21st Army Group, including the US Ninth Army and the First Allied Airborne Army, crossed the Rhine in Operation Plunder...
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recommendation was sent to 12th Army Group, 21st Army Group and the AEAF. The recommendation to create a unified airborne army was criticized and opposed by...
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Army. Upon going ashore on 6 June 1944, D-Day, First Army came under General Bernard Montgomery's 21st Army Group (alongside the British Second Army)...
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to cross the Rhine on the night of 23 March 1945, launched by the 21st Army Group under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. The crossing of the river was...
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Army Group North (German: Heeresgruppe Nord) was the name of three separate army groups of the Wehrmacht during World War II. Its rear area operations...
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The 6th United States Army Group (also referred to as the Southern Group of Armies) was an Allied army group that fought in the European Theater of Operations...
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Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group operations in the World War II Siegfried Line campaign, which ran from the end of the pursuit of the German armies from Normandy...
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Armies.) 15th Army Group — Had overall command of the Allied Armies in Italy. (Consisted of Fifth United States Army and British Eighth Army.) 21st Army...
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South the American 6th Army Group commanded by Devers. The British 21st Army Group and French elements of the 6th Army Group were not part of ETOUSA...
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Firefly was put into production in early 1944, in time to equip the 21st Army Group, commanded by General Bernard Montgomery, for the Normandy landings...
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