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Political pressure mounted for the Eighth Army to launch an offensive, which would support Malta and defeat the Axis powers in Africa prior to development of any potential Japanese threat to the Middle East and the army's supply lines; supply convoys ran from the UK, around the Cape of Good Hope, and then through the Indian Ocean to the Middle ...
The Eighth Army is a U.S. field army which commands all United States Army forces in South Korea. [1] It is headquartered at the Camp Humphreys in the Anjeong-ri of Pyeongtaek, South Korea . [ 2 ] Eighth Army relocated its headquarters from Yongsan to Camp Humphreys in the summer of 2017. [ 3 ]
Its Area of Responsibility (AOR) includes the Middle East (including Egypt in Africa), Central Asia and parts of South Asia. The command has been the main American presence in many military operations, including the Persian Gulf War's Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the War in Afghanistan, as well as the Iraq War from 2003 to 2011.
Its initial army forces in 1947 comprised Eighth Army, XXIV Corps/U.S. Army Forces in Korea, and the Ryukyus, Philippines and Marianas-Bonins Commands (MARBO). There was no overall headquarters for the ground elements within the Far East Command, and the five separate ground commands reported directly to CINCFE. [5]
Assigned to Southwest Asia (Iraq, Iran, etc.) and Southeast Asia. Many of the 103 original Son tay raider volunteers were from 6SFGA. 8th Special Forces Group – Active from 1963 to 1972. Responsible for training armies of Latin America in counterinsurgency tactics. 11th Special Forces Group (U.S. Army Reserve) – Active from 1961 to 1994.
Eighth Army (France) 8th Army (German Empire), a unit in World War I; 8th Army (Russian Empire), a unit in World War I; 8th Army (Wehrmacht), a German unit in World War II; Eighth Army (Italy) Japanese Eighth Area Army; Eighth Army (Ottoman Empire) 8th Guards Army (Russia) 8th Army (RSFSR), a unit of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War
With the capture of Chuncheon, all major ground objectives of Operation Ripper were in Eighth Army hands. To the east, X Corps and ROK III Corps had reached the Idaho Line by 17 March. KPA forces had offered stiff resistance to the attack on only one day, the 15th, and then only in the X Corps' area.
US Army Forces, Central Pacific Area (1943–44) US Army Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas (1944–69) US Army Forces, Middle Pacific (1945–47) US Army, Pacific (1947–1974) US Army Western Command (1979–1990) United States Army Pacific (1990–present)