Ninth Army (United States)

Army · United States · April 15, 1944 – October 1, 2020 · inactive October 10, 1945 – January 26, 2012

American army under William Simpson that took Brest, crossed the Roer and was first to reach the Elbe.

June 6, 1944 – July 1944 Invasion of Normandy
September 19, 1944 Operation Overlord Brest taken Map
November 16, 1944 Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine The Roer Map
February 8 – March 27, 1945 Rhineland Offensive
February 23, 1945 Operation Grenade Map
March 1945 – March 24, 1945 Operation Plunder
March 24, 1945 Western Allied invasion of Germany Crosses the Rhine at Rheinberg Map
April 11, 1945 – May 8, 1945 Reaches the Elbe at Magdeburg Map
April 18, 1945 Ruhr Pocket