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The United States Fifth Army was initially commanded by Lieutenant General Mark Clark, who would lead the Fifth Army for nearly two years, [8] and was to experience some of the toughest fighting of World War II, where it was engaged on the Italian Front, which was, in many ways, often more reminiscent of the trench warfare of the Western Front ...
5th Army (German Empire), a World War I field Army; 5th Army (Wehrmacht), a World War II field army; 5th Panzer Army; 5th Army (GDR), a Warsaw Pact field army in the Cold War to be activated in case of a war with NATO
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The Fifth Army, by now composed of five American divisions (the 3rd, 34th, 36th and 45th Infantry, along with the 82nd Airborne) and three British divisions (7th Armoured, 46th and 56th Infantry), operating alongside the British Eighth Army, under General Bernard Montgomery, subsequently advanced up the spine of Italy, and captured the Italian ...
The 5th Army was established on 25 August 1939 in Wehrkreis VI with General Curt Liebmann in command. Responsible for the defense of the Siegfried Line in the vicinity of Trier as part of Army Group C from 3 September, the army was assigned the Eifel Border Troops (86th, Trier Border, 26th, and 227th Divisions) and the VI Army Corps (16th, 69th, 211th, and 216th Infantry Divisions).
The Fifth Army was created on 30 October 1916, by renaming the Reserve Army (General Hubert Gough). [1] It participated in the Battle of the Ancre, which became the final British effort in the Battle of the Somme. [2] In 1917,the Fifth Army was involved in the Battle of Arras and then the Third Battle of Ypres.
The 5th Army (German: 5. Armee / Armeeoberkommando 5 / A.O.K. 5 ) was a field army of the Imperial German Army during World War I . It was formed on mobilization in August 1914 seemingly from the VII Army Inspection .
The 5th Army then consisted of around 2,000 men and acted together with the 2nd Special Army around Kupyansk and Chertkovo. By April 20, together with the Donetsk Army (which was merged with the 5th Army at the end of April) and part of the 3rd Army, it concentrated in the region of Lugansk-Rodakovo. Here it was decided to defend Lugansk under ...