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The II Corps was a corps-sized formation of the United States Army that was active in both World War I and World War II.It was originally formed and fought on the Western Front during World War I and was also the first American formation of any size to see combat in North Africa or Europe during World War II.
XXXV Airborne Corps – World War II deception formation – see Operation Pastel XXXVI Corps (1944–1945) U.S. XXXVII Corps - World War II – see Fourteenth United States Army
This is a list of formations of the United States Army during the World War II.Many of these formations still exist today, though many by different designations. Included are formations that were placed on rolls, but never organized, as well as "phantom" formations used in the Allied Operation Quicksilver deception of 1944—these are marked accordingly.
The XXI Corps was a corps of the U.S. Army during World War II.It was constituted on 2 December 1943, and activated on 6 December 1943 at Camp Polk, Louisiana.XXI Corps fought for 116 days in the European Theater of Operations, starting in the Alsace, crossing into southern Germany, and swarming into Austria, with individual elements reaching into northern Italy. [1]
The XXII Corps was a corps of the United States Army during World War II and the Cold War. Its lineage was assigned to II Field Force, Vietnam , during the Vietnam War . Lineage
The XII Army Corps was not ordered to active duty prior to World War II, and was located in Manhattan as of 7 December 1941 in a reserve status. [2] The headquarters, XII Army Corps was redeaignated on 19 August 1942 as Headquarters, XII Corps, and ordered into active military service on 29 August 1942 at Columbia, South Carolina.
The following is a list of United States Army and United States Marine Corps divisions of World War II. The United States began the war with only a handful of active divisions: five infantry and one cavalry. By the end of the war, the nation had fielded nearly one hundred.
The XX Corps of the United States Army fought from northern France to Austria in World War II.Constituted on 10 October 1943 by re-designating the IV Armored Corps of the Army Ground Forces, a training organization which had been activated at Camp Young, California on 5 September 1942, XX Corps became operational in France as part of Lieutenant General George S. Patton's U.S.