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6th Army Group » US Seventh Army

Army · United States · July 10, 1942 – May 8, 1945

American army under Alexander Patch that landed in Provence, liberated Strasbourg and took Nuremberg and Munich.

Recorded for Operation Dragoon.

Served with

15th Army Group July 10, 1943 – August 17, 1943

Attached units 1

US VI Corps (1943–1945) August 1, 1944 – May 8, 1945

Engagements 6

Allied invasion of Sicily July 9 – August 17, 1943
Allied invasion of Italy September 3–16, 1943
Battle of Anzio January 22 – June 4, 1944
Operation Dragoon August 15 – September 14, 1944
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine August 25, 1944 – March 7, 1945
Western Allied invasion of Germany March 22 – May 8, 1945

Movements

July 10, 1943 Lands at Gela and Licata (Allied invasion of Sicily) · map
July 22, 1943 Palermo taken · map
August 17, 1943 Messina taken · map
November 1, 1943 – July 31, 1944 Palermo, in reserve · map
August 15, 1944 Lands in Provence (Operation Dragoon) · map
August 22, 1944 Grenoble · map
September 12, 1944 Meets the Third Army near Dijon · map
November 23, 1944 Strasbourg (Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine) · map
April 20, 1945 Nuremberg taken (Western Allied invasion of Germany) · map
April 30, 1945 – May 8, 1945 Munich taken · map

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