First Army (United States)

Army · United States · from August 10, 1918 · inactive April 20, 1919 – October 1, 1933

The first American field army, under Pershing and then Hunter Liggett.

July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
August 10, 1918 – September 11, 1918 Formed near Saint-Mihiel Map
September 12, 1918 Battle of Saint-Mihiel Reduces the Saint-Mihiel salient Map
September 26, 1918 Meuse–Argonne offensive Attacks between the Argonne and the Meuse Map
November 7, 1918 Reaches the heights over Sedan Map
June 6, 1944 Operation Overlord Omaha and Utah beaches Map
June 6 – August 29, 1944 Normandy landings
June 6, 1944 – July 1944 Invasion of Normandy
June 26, 1944 Cherbourg taken Map
July 25, 1944 Operation Cobra at St-Lô Map
July 25–31, 1944 Operation Cobra
August 12–21, 1944 Falaise pocket
August 31 – September 5, 1944 Battle of the Mons pocket
September 2, 1944 – February 4, 1945 Liberation of Belgium
September 7, 1944 Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine Liège Map
October 2–21, 1944 Battle of Aachen
October 21, 1944 Aachen taken Map
December 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge Elsenborn ridge holds Map
February 8 – March 27, 1945 Rhineland Offensive
March 7, 1945 Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine The Remagen bridge Map
April 18, 1945 Ruhr Pocket
April 25, 1945 Western Allied invasion of Germany Torgau on the Elbe Map
May 8, 1945 VE Day Map