Ninth United States Army

William Hood Simpson

The U.S. 9th Army was a major unit of the United States Army in World War II.

History

The 9th U.S. Army was established on April 15, 1944 under the command of William Hood Simpson and published in the same year to England. You should read originally 8th Army, but was renamed because of the name similarity to the British 8th Army. On September 5, 1944 she was activated during the Battle of Brittany as part of the 12th U.S. Army Group of General Omar N. Bradley in Brittany, where her abandoned in Brittany VIII U.S. Corps (formerly the 3rd U.S. Army ) was assumed. After the fall of the besieged since August Brest and the surrender of the German troops on the Crozon Peninsula September 20, the Army was transferred to the Western Front, where it was inserted between the 1st and 3rd U.S. Army.

In November 1944 she was transferred to the left flank of the 12th Army Group and participated in the fighting on the Rurfront. Here she was involved in the failed operation Queen during the Battle of the Hurtgenwald. After the beginning of the German Ardennes offensive on 16 December it was on December 20, as well as the 1st U.S. Army, 21st Army Group to the north standing subordinated to the British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. Many of its subordinate organizations came under the command of the 1st Army to clean up the German slump as soon as possible. Unlike the 1st Army, the 9th Army remained after the end of the German offensive under the command of the 21st Army Group. On February 23, 1945 she succeeded in Operation Grenade, which formed the southern counterpart to Operation Veritable the 1st Canadian Army, the crossing of the Roer. By 10 March, the army was vormarschiert at all their fronts to the Rhine. On March 23, she began in the Operation Flashpoint, which was part of Operation Plunder, the Rhine Mountain / Wesel after its successful completion it was the crossing of the Rhine, the northern pincer of the enclosure of the Ruhr. On April 1st Armoured units of the 1st and 9th Army in Lippstadt met each other and thus completed the Ruhr pocket in which the largest part of the German Army Group B was trapped under Field Marshal Walter Model. On 4 April, the 9th Army was again placed under Bradley's Army Group. A reinforced corps was left to reduce the Ruhr boiler, while two other corps were advancing north on the resin over the Elbe. On April 10, the army food and Hannover took, the day after Bochum and Goslar. On April 17, troops of the 9th Army reached Magdeburg on the Elbe ( already on the 14th they had the camp Gardelegen free ), April 21, the last resistance ended in the Ruhr pocket. The following formation of bridgeheads across the Elbe requested by General Simpson permission to further advance on Berlin was not granted for political reasons. On 2 May, the army had reached their entire front of the agreed demarcation line with the Red Army. After the German surrender, the 9th Army occupied large parts of central Germany until it was withdrawn in June 1945 from Europe.

Outline on December 12, 1944

  • 9 U.S. Army XIII. U.S. Corps U.S. 7th Armored Division
  • 84th Infantry Division
  • 102nd Infantry Division
  • 75th Infantry Division
  • 2nd Armored Division
  • 29th Infantry Division
  • 30th Infantry Division
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