Eighth Corps Area

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Eighth Corps Area was a military formation of the United States Army. Its headquarters was at Fort Sam Houston, TX. It was established on 20 August 1920 with headquarters at Fort Sam Houston, TX, and organized from portions of the discontinued Southern Department.

The Eighth Corps Area included the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. For administrative purposes and for tactical control in connection with border patrol field operations, that part of the state of Arizona that lies west of the 114 degree meridian and south of the 33 degree parallel was attached to the Ninth Corps Area. In May 1927, the Pole Mountain Reservation and the post of Fort D.A. Russell (later renamed Fort Francis E. Warren) in Wyoming came under the control of the Eighth Corps Area when the 4th Infantry Brigade was transferred to that post from Fort Sam Houston. The installations were returned to control of the Ninth Corps Area on 1 July 1939.

HQ, Eighth Corps Area was responsible for the mobilization, administration, and training of units of the Second and Fifth Armies, VIII and XVIII Army Corps, select GHQR units, and the Zone of the Interior (ZI) support units of the Eighth CASC. Mobile units of the corps area, less GHQR and ZI units, were assigned to the Third and Sixth Armies from 1921 to 1933.

Major Commands in the corps area included Third Army (1933–36 and 1940–41); VIII Corps: 2d Division, 36th Division, 45th Division; XVIII Corps: 90th Division, 95th Division, 103d Division; the 1st Cavalry Division; the 3d Wing (1932–35); the 24th School Wing (1927–31); and the Eighth Corps Area Service Command.

• Maj. Gen. Joseph T. Dickman 1 September 1920–6 October 1921
• Maj. Gen. John L. Hines 7 October 1921–20 November 1922
• Maj. Gen. Edward M. Lewis 20 November 1922–11 October 1924
• Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall 12 October 1924–15 January 1925
• Maj. Gen. Ernest Hinds 16 January 1925–3 January 1928
• Maj. Gen. Thomas Q. Donaldson 4 January 1928–28 April 1928
• Maj. Gen. Albert J. Bowley 29 April 1928–24 December 1928
• Maj. Gen. William Lassiter 24 December 1928–27 July 1930
• Brig. Gen. Halstead Dorey 27 July 1930–21 November 1930
• Maj. Gen. Edwin B. Winans 22 November 1930–30 September 1933
• Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood 3 October 1933–27 February 1936
• Maj. Gen. Henry W. Butner 27 February 1936–19 March 1936
• Brig. Gen. Hamilton S. Hawkins 19 March 1936–4 April 1936
• Maj. Gen. Frank Parker 4 April 1936–30 September 1936
• Maj. Gen. Herbert J. Brees 1 October 1936–9 November 1940
• Maj. Gen. Richard Donovan 10 November 1940–August 1942

Lieutenant General Walton H. Walker was given command of the succeding Eighth Service Command, headquartered in Dallas, from May 1945 to May 1946.

• Clay, Steven E. (2010). US Army Order of Battle 1919–1941, Vol. 1: The Arms: Major Commands and Infantry Organizations (PDF). Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute Press. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. (page 65)