12th Army Group

Army group · United States · August 1, 1944 – July 31, 1945 · 1,300,000 strong

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.

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Sub-units 2

Army US Third Army
Army Ninth Army (United States)

Strength and losses

Nominal Strength: 1,300,000

Movements

July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
June 6 – August 29, 1944 Normandy landings
June 6, 1944 – July 1944 Invasion of Normandy
August 1, 1944 Operation Overlord Formed in Normandy Map
August 12–21, 1944 Falaise pocket
September 15, 1944 Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine Up to the German border Map
December 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge Luxembourg: the Bulge Map
February 8 – March 27, 1945 Rhineland Offensive
March 1945 – March 24, 1945 Operation Plunder
April 18, 1945 Western Allied invasion of Germany Ruhr pocket surrenders Map
April 18, 1945 Ruhr Pocket
April 25, 1945 – July 31, 1945 Elbe: meets the Red Army at Torgau Map
August 2, 1990 – January 17, 1991 Operation Desert Shield
February 24–28, 1991 Liberation of Kuwait campaign
September 11, 2001 War on terror
March 20, 2003 – December 18, 2011 Iraq War
January 1, 2015 – August 30, 2021 War in Afghanistan (2015–2021)
February 28, 2026 2026 Iran war