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12th Army Group

Army group · United States · August 1, 1944 – July 31, 1945

Omar Bradley's army group, the largest American field command, with the First, Third, Ninth and Fifteenth Armies from the Normandy breakout to the Elbe.

Recorded for Operation Overlord.

Sub-units 3

Engagements 4

Operation Overlord June 6 – August 30, 1944
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine August 25, 1944 – March 7, 1945
Battle of the Bulge December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945
Western Allied invasion of Germany March 22 – May 8, 1945

Movements

August 1, 1944 Formed in Normandy (Operation Overlord) · map
September 15, 1944 Up to the German border (Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine) · map
December 16, 1944 Luxembourg: the Bulge (Battle of the Bulge) · map
April 18, 1945 Ruhr pocket surrenders (Western Allied invasion of Germany) · map
April 25, 1945 – July 31, 1945 Elbe: meets the Red Army at Torgau · map

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