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The Twelfth United States Army Group was the largest and most powerful United States Army formation ever to take to the field. It controlled the majority of American forces on the Western Front in 1944 and 1945. It was commanded by General Omar Bradley with its headquarters established in London on 14 July 1944. Bradley's First United States Army, which later formed part of the Twelfth Army Group, formed the right wing of the Allied lines during the Normandy landings and the Battle of Normandy. They were joined during July by the Third United States Army, under the command of General George S. Patton. Until September, when General Eisenhower assumed overall command of the Allied land forces in Northwest Europe, the U.S. forces in Normandy were included with the British Second Army and the First Canadian Army in the British headquarters formation 21st Army Group, commanded by General Montgomery. After the breakout from the beach-head at Normandy, the Twelfth Army Group formed the center of the Allied forces on the Western Front. To the north was the British 21st Army Group (the 2 aforementioned field armies) and, to the south, advancing from their landing on the Mediterranean coast, was the Sixth United States Army Group (Seventh United States Army and French First Army). As the Twelfth advanced through Germany in 1945, it controlled four field armies: First United States Army, Third United States Army, Ninth United States Army and Fifteenth United States Army. By V-E Day, the Twelfth Army Group was a force that numbered over 1.3 million men.〔CSI REPORT No. 6, Larger units: Theater Army – Army Group – Field Army, Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, January 1985 ()〕 ==Order of Battle – 8 May 1945== *22px 12th Army Group – General Omar N. Bradley * *22px First Army – General Courtney H. Hodges * * * 78th Infantry Division – Major General Edwin P. Parker * * *22px VII Corps – Lieutenant General J. Lawton Collins * * * *22px 9th Infantry Division – Major General Louis A. Craig * * * *22px 69th Infantry Division – Major General Emil F. Reinhardt * * * *22px 104th Infantry Division – Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen, Sr. * *22px Third Army – General George S. Patton, Jr. * * *22px 1st Infantry Division – Major General Clift Andrus * * *22px 2nd Infantry Division – Major General Walter M. Robertson * * *22px 9th Armored Division – Major General John W. Leonard * * * 70th Infantry Division – Major General Allison J. Barnett * * *22px 97th Infantry Division – Brigadier General Milton B. Halsey * * *22px III Corps – Major General James Van Fleet * * * *22px 4th Infantry Division – Major General Harold W. Blakeley * * * *22px 14th Armored Division – Major General Albert C. Smith * * * *22px 99th Infantry Division – Major General Walter E. Lauer * * *22px V Corps – Major General Clarence R. Huebner * * * *22px 16th Armored Division – Brigadier General John L. Pierce * * *22px XII Corps – Major General Stafford LeRoy Irwin * * * *22px 4th Armored Division – Major General William M. Hoge * * * *22px 5th Infantry Division – Major General Albert E. Brown * * * *22px 11th Armored Division – Major General Holmes E. Dager * * * *22px 26th Infantry Division – Major General Willard S. Paul * * * *22px 90th Infantry Division – Major General Herbert L. Earnest * * *22px XX Corps – Major General Walton H. Walker * * * * 13th Armored Division – Major General John Millikin * * * * 65th Infantry Division – Major General Stanley E. Reinhart * * * * 71st Infantry Division – Major General Willard G. Wyman * * * *22px 80th Infantry Division – Major General Horace L. McBride * *22px Ninth Army – Lieutenant General William H. Simpson * * * 2nd Armored Division – Major General Isaac D. White * * *22px VIII Corps – Major General Troy H. Middleton * * * * 6th Armored Division – Major General Robert W. Grow * * * * 76th Infantry Division – Major General William R. Schmidt * * * *22px 87th Infantry Division – Major General Frank L. Cullin, Jr. * * * *22px 89th Infantry Division – Major General Thomas D. Finley * * *22px XIII Corps – Major General Alvan C. Gillem, Jr. * * * * 30th Infantry Division – Major General Leland S. Hobbs * * * *22px 35th Infantry Division – Major General Paul W. Baade * * * *22px 83rd Infantry Division – Major General Robert C. Macon * * * *22px 84th Infantry Division – Major General Alexander R. Bolling * * * *22px 102nd Infantry Division – Major General Frank A. Keating * * *22px XVI Corps – Major General John B. Anderson * * * *22px 29th Infantry Division – Major General Charles H. Gerhardt * * * * 75th Infantry Division – Major General Ray E. Porter * * * *22px 79th Infantry Division – Major General Ira T. Wyche * * * *22px 95th Infantry Division – Major General Harry L. Tawddle * * *22px XIX Corps – Major General Raymond S. McLain * * * *22px 3rd Armored Division – Brigadier General Doyle O. Hickey * * * * 8th Armored Division – Major General John M. Devine * *22px Fifteenth Army – Lieutenant General Leonard T. Gerow * * *22px 66th Infantry Division – Major General Herman F. Kramer * * *22px 106th Infantry Division – Major General Donald A. Stroh * * *22px XVIII Airborne Corps – Major General Matthew B. Ridgway * * * * 5th Armored Division – Major General Lunsford E. Oliver * * * * 7th Armored Division – Major General Robert W. Hasbrouck * * * *22px 8th Infantry Division – Major General Bryant E. Moore * * * *22px 82nd Airborne Division – Major General James M. Gavin * * *22px XXII Corps – Major General Ernest N. Harmon * * * *22px 17th Airborne Division – Major General William M. Miley * * * *22px 94th Infantry Division – Major General Harry J. Malony * * *22px XXIII Corps – Major General Hugh J. Gaffey * * * *22px 28th Infantry Division – Major General Norman D. Cota Source: Bradley, Omar, ''A Soldier's Story'', New York: Henry Holt and Company (1950), pp. 557–561 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Twelfth United States Army Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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