The Eighth Army was a field army of the British Army during the Second World War. It was formed as the Western Army on 10 September 1941, in Egypt, before...
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The Eighth Army is a U.S. field army which commands all United States Army forces in South Korea. It is headquartered at the Camp Humphreys in the Anjeong-ri...
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At the start of 1939, the British Army was, as it traditionally always had been, a small volunteer professional army. At the beginning of the Second World...
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British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) was the name given to two British Army formations of the same name. Both were originally occupation forces in Germany...
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British Fourteenth Army was a multi-national force comprising units from Commonwealth countries during the Second World War. As well as British Army units...
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The Eighth Area Army (第8方面軍, Dai-hachi hōmen gun) was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The army was formed on 9 November...
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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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During the Second World War, the British Army created several field armies. There were formations that controlled multiple army corps, which in turn controlled...
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The British Second Army was a field army active during the First and Second World Wars. During the First World War the army was active on the Western...
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Army – Malaya, Singapore, Sumatra Twenty-Seventh Army – Chishima Islands Twenty-Eighth Army – Burma Twenty-Ninth Army – British Malaya Thirtieth Army...
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This is a list of British Army commands and army groups. It is intended as a central point of access information about British formations of that size...
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sea, combined with the approach of the British Eighth Army, under General Bernard Montgomery (the Eighth Army had landed further south in Operation Baytown...
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Alexander for the Tunisia Campaign. A primarily British formation, it comprised the British First Army and Eighth Army, but included French and American corps...
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related issues for the Scottish, English and British Army, from 1537 to the present. See also Timeline of British diplomatic history. 1537 – The Overseers...
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The First Army was a formation of the British Army that existed during the First and Second World Wars. The First Army included Indian and Portuguese forces...
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1993) was an airborne officer of the British Army, best known for being the leader of the small group of British airborne troops that actually arrived...
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the British Eighth Army, under Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery and the British First Army under Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson. Eighth Army had...
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precedence. It has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed on 14 June 1775 to fight against the British for independence during the American Revolutionary...
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British Army during the First World War fought the largest and most costly war in its long history. Unlike the French and German Armies, the British Army...
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conjunction with the British Eighth Army, commanded by General Sir Bernard Montgomery, Patton's rival. Patton commanded the Seventh Army until early 1944...
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Commandos (United Kingdom) (redirect from British Army Commando)
raids against German-occupied Europe. Initially drawn from within the British Army from soldiers who volunteered for the Special Service Brigade, the Commandos'...
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The Indian Army during World War II, a British force also referred to as the British Indian Army, began the war, in 1939, numbering just under 200,000...
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21st Army Group was left with the British Second Army and the newly activated First Canadian Army which, despite its title, also contained many British and...
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Command was redesignated as Eighth Air Force on 22 February 1944. the Eighth Army Air Force (8 AAF) was a United States Army Air Forces combat air force...
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The 11th Army Group was the main British Army force in Southeast Asia during the Second World War. Although a nominally British formation, it also included...
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1944, Sixth Army was relieved from operations in New Guinea by the Eighth Army. On 20 October 1944, X Corps and XXIV Corps, under Sixth Army, invaded Leyte...
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soldiers of Anders' Army fought alongside Jewish soldiers in British units, including the Jewish Brigade of the British Eighth Army.[better source needed]...
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227th Division, supported 3rd British District 228th Division, supported UK Eighth Army 230th Division, supported British forces 541st Infantry, Coast...
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Bernard Montgomery (category British Army personnel of World War I)
War, Montgomery commanded the British Eighth Army from August 1942. He subsequently commanded the British Eighth Army during the Allied invasion of Sicily...
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had been designated Eighth Army, but on arrival in the United Kingdom it was renamed to avoid confusion with the famous British formation of the same...
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