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Order of Battle as of 8 May 1945

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  General Omar N. Bradley

This is the order of battle of the United States 12th Army Group on 8 May 1945, the date of the formal surrender of the military forces of Nazi Germany. The order of battle for the 6th Army Group, which opened the second front against Germany in Southern France, can be found here.

First Army

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  General Courtney H. Hodges
Army-level unit
  78th Infantry ("Lightning") Division
Major General Edwin P. Parker Jr.
Infantry: 309th, 310th, and 311th Infantry Regiments
Artillery 26th, 60th, and 8th (105 mm), 34th Field Artillery Battalions (155 mm)
Armor: 746th Tank Battalion
Antitank: 629th and 899th Tank Destroyer Battalions
  VII Corps
Lieutenant General J. Lawton Collins
  9th Infantry ("Old Reliables") Division
Major General Louis A. Craig
Infantry: 39th, 47th, and 60th Infantry Regiments
Artillery: 307th, 308th, and 393rd (105 mm), 309th Field Artillery Battalions (155 mm)
Armor: 709th, 736th, and 774th Tank Battalions
Antitank: 628th, 817th, and 893rd Tank Destroyer Battalions
  9th Armored ("Phantom") Division
Major General John W. Leonard
Armor: 2nd, 14th, and 19th Tank Battalions
Infantry: 27th, 52nd, and 60th Armored Infantry Battalions
Artillery: 3rd, 16th, 73rd Armored Field Artillery Battalions
  69th Infantry ("Fighting 69th") Division
Major General Emil F. Reinhardt
Infantry: 271st, 272nd, and 273rd Infantry Regiments
Artillery: 879th, 880th, and 881st (105 mm), 724th Field Artillery Battalions (155 mm)
Armor: 777th Tank Battalion
Antitank: 661st Tank Destroyer Battalion
  104th Infantry Division
Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen Sr.
Infantry: 413th, 414th, Infantry Regiments
Artillery: 385th, 386th, 929th (105 mm), 387th Field Artillery Battalions (155 mm)

Third Army

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  General George S. Patton, Jr.
Army-level units
  1st Infantry ("Big Red One") Division
Major General Clift Andrus
Infantry: 16th, 18th, 26th Infantry Regiments
Armor: 745th Tank Battalion
  2nd Infantry ("Indianhead") Division
Major General Walter M. Robertson
Infantry: 9th, 23rd, 38th Infantry Regiments
Armor: 741st, 759th Tank Battalion
  70th Infantry ("Trailblazers") Division
Major General Allison J. Barnett
Infantry: 274th, 275th, 276th Infantry Regiments
  97th Infantry ("Trident") Division
Brigadier General Milton B. Halsey
Infantry: 303rd, 386th, 387th Infantry Regiments
Armor: 782nd Tank Battalion
 
James A. Van Fleet
  III Corps
Major General James Van Fleet
  4th Infantry ("Ivy") Division
Major General Harold W. Blakeley
Infantry: 8th, 12th, and 22nd Infantry Regiments
  14th Armored ("Liberators") Division
Major General Albert C. Smith
  99th Infantry ("Checkerboard") Division
Major General Walter E. Lauer
  V Corps
Major General Clarence R. Huebner
  16th Armored Division
Brigadier General John L. Pierce
 
Stafford L. Irwin
  XII Corps
Major General Stafford LeRoy Irwin
  4th Armored Division
Major General William M. Hoge
Armor: 8th, 35th, and 37th Armored Battalions
Infantry: 10th, 51st, 53rd Armored Infantry Battalions
Artillery: 22nd, 66th, 94th Armored Field Artillery Battalions
  5th Infantry "Red Diamond" Division
Major General Albert E. Brown
Infantry: 2nd, 10th, and 11th Infantry Regiments
  11th Armored "Thunderbolt" Division
Major General Holmes E. Dager
Armor: 22nd, 41st, and 42nd Armored Battalions
Infantry: 21st, 55th, 63rd Armored Infantry Battalions
Artillery: 490th, 491st, 492nd Armored Field Artillery Battalions
  26th Infantry "Yankee" Division
Major General Willard S. Paul
Infantry: 101st, 104th, 328th Infantry Regiments
  90th Infantry "Tough 'Ombres" Division
Major General Herbert L. Earnest
Infantry: 357th, 358th, and 359th Infantry Regiments
  XX Corps
Major General Walton H. Walker
  13th Armored Division
Major General John Millikin
  65th Infantry "Battle-Axe" Division
Major General Stanley E. Reinhart
  71st Infantry "Red Circle" Division
Major General Willard G. Wyman
  80th Infantry "Blue Ridge" Division
Major General Horace L. McBride

Ninth Army

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  Lieutenant General William H. Simpson
Army-level unit
  2nd Armored Division
Major General Isaac D. White

VIII

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  VIII Corps
Major General Troy H. Middleton
  6th Armored "Super Sixth" Division
Major General Robert W. Grow
  76th Infantry "Onaway" Division
Major General William R. Schmidt
  87th Infantry "Golden Acorn" Division
Major General Frank L. Culin Jr.
  89th Infantry "Rolling W" Division
Major General Thomas D. Finley

XIII

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  XIII Corps
Major General Alvan C. Gillem, Jr.
  30th Infantry Division
Major General Leland S. Hobbs
  35th Infantry Division
Major General Paul W. Baade
  83rd Infantry Division
Major General Robert C. Macon
  84th Infantry Division
Major General Alexander R. Bolling
  102nd Infantry Division
Major General Frank A. Keating
  XVI Corps
Major General John B. Anderson
  29th Infantry Division
Major General Charles H. Gerhardt
  75th Infantry Division
Major General Ray E. Porter
  79th Infantry "Cross of Lorraine" Division
Major General Ira T. Wyche
  95th Infantry Division
Major General Harry L. Twaddle
  XIX Corps
Major General Raymond S. McLain
  3rd Armored Division
Brigadier General Doyle O. Hickey
Armor: 32nd, 33rd Armored Regiments, 36th Armored Infantry Regiment
  8th Armored Division
Major General John M. Devine
Armor: 18th, 36th, 80th Tank Battalions

Fifteenth Army

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Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow
  Lieutenant General Leonard T. Gerow
Army-level units
  66th Infantry Division
Major General Herman F. Kramer
  106th Infantry Division
Major General Donald A. Stroh
  XVIII Airborne Corps
Major General Matthew B. Ridgway
  5th Armored Division
Major General Lunsford E. Oliver
  7th Armored Division
Major General Robert W. Hasbrouck
  8th Infantry Division
Major General Bryant E. Moore
  82nd Airborne Division
Major General James M. Gavin
  101st Airborne Division
Major General William C. Lee
  XXII Corps
Major General Ernest N. Harmon
  17th Airborne Division
Major General William M. Miley
  94th Infantry Division
Major General Harry J. Malony
  XXIII Corps
Major General Hugh J. Gaffey
  28th Infantry "Keystone" Division
Major General Norman D. Cota
Infantry: 109th, 110th, 112th Infantry Regiments

Source: Bradley, Omar, A Soldier's Story, New York: Henry Holt and Company (1950), pp. 557–561

Order of battle (8 May 1945

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Order of battle shifted frequently in the Sixth Army Group, but accelerated dramatically during its late-war push through southern Bavaria into the Austrian Alps to head off German establishment of a National Redoubt and close off passes to Nazi escape. Order of Battle on 8 May represents a significantly different disposition in some instances than in the weeks and even days leading up to it.

  General Jacob L. Devers

Seventh Army

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  Lieutenant General Alexander M. Patch
Army-level units
  12th Armored "Hellcat" Division
Major General Roderick R. Allen
  45th Infantry "Thunderbird" Division
Major General Robert T. Frederick
  63rd Infantry "Blood and Fire" Division
Major General Louis E. Hibbs
  100th Infantry "Success in Battle" Division
Major General Withers A. Burress
  VI Corps
Major General Edward H. Brooks
  10th Armored Division
Major General William H. H. Morris, Jr.
  44th Infantry Division
Major General William F. Dean
  103rd Infantry Division
Major General Anthony C. McAuliffe
  XV Corps
Major General Wade H. Haislip
  3rd Infantry Division
Major General John W. O'Daniel
  20th Armored Division
Major General Orlando Ward
  42nd Infantry Division
Major General Harry J. Collins
  86th Infantry Division
Major General Harris M. McLaskey
  XXI Corps (Major General Frank W. Milburn
  French 2nd Armored Division (Major General Philippe Leclerc
  36th Infantry Division (Major General John E. Dahlquist
  101st Airborne Division (Major General Maxwell D. Taylor

French First Army

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General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny[a]
French 1st Corps (Lieutenant General Antoine Béthouart
  French 2nd Moroccan Infantry Division (Brigadier General François de Linarès
  French 4th Moroccan Mountain Division (Major General Rene de Hasdin
  French 9th Colonial Infantry Division (Brigadier General Jean-Étienne Valluy
  French 10th Infantry Division (Brigadier General Pierre Billotte
  French 1st Armored Division (Brigadier General Aime Sudre
French 2nd Corps (Lieutenant General Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert
  French 1st Motorised Infantry Division (Brigadier General Pierre Garbay
  French 1st Infantry Division (Brigadier General Jean Callies
  French 3rd Algerian Infantry Division (Major General Augustin Guillaume
  French 14th Infantry Division (Brigadier General Raoul Salan
  French 5th Armored Division (Brigadier General Guy Schlesser

Detachment Army of the Alps

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Lieutenant General Paul Doyen

  French 27th Alpine Infantry Division (Colonel Jean Vallette d'Osia


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