A field army (also known as numbered army or simply army ) is a military formation in many armed forces, composed of two or more corps . It may be subordinate to an army group . Air armies are the equivalent formations in air forces , and fleets in navies . A field army is composed of 80,000 to 300,000 soldiers.
11-1206: (Redirected from German Fourth Army ) Fourth Army or 4th Army may refer to: Germany [ edit ] 4th Army (German Empire) , a World War I field Army 4th Army (Wehrmacht) , a World War II field army 4th Panzer Army Russia - Soviet Union [ edit ] 4th Army (Russian Empire) 4th Army (RSFSR) 4th Army (Soviet Union) 4th Air Army , Soviet Union and Russia 4th Guards Army , Soviet Union 4th Tank Army , Soviet Union Others [ edit ] 4th Army (Austria-Hungary) Fourth Army (Bulgaria) Fourth Army (National Revolutionary Army) , Republic of China New Fourth Army , Republic of China Fourth Army (France) Fourth Army (Italy) Fourth Army (Japan) Fourth Army (Ottoman Empire) Fourth Army (Romania) Fourth Army (United Kingdom) Fourth United States Army 4th Army (Kingdom of Yugoslavia) See also [ edit ] IV Corps (disambiguation) 4th Division (disambiguation) 4th Brigade (disambiguation) 4th Regiment (disambiguation) 4th Squadron (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
22-792: A numerical name, such as the British Army of the Rhine , Army of the Potomac , Army of the Niemen or Aegean Army (also known as the Fourth Army). The Roman army was among the first to feature a formal field army, in the sense of a very large, combined arms formation, namely the sacer comitatus , which may be translated literally as "sacred escort". The term is derived from their being commanded by Roman emperors (who were regarded as sacred), when they acted as field commanders . While
33-650: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages 4th Army (German Empire) The 4th Army ( German : 4. Armee / Armeeoberkommando 4 / A.O.K. 4 ) was an army level command of the German Army in World War I . It was formed on mobilisation in August 1914 from the VI Army Inspection . The army was disbanded in 1919 during demobilization after
44-750: The " Race to the Sea " at the First Battle of Ypres . The 4th Army faced the British in Flanders for the rest of the war, notably defending in the Battle of Passchendaele (1917), attacking in the 1918 German spring offensive and finally being pushed back in the Hundred Days Offensive from August 1918. At the end of the war it was serving as part of Heeresgruppe Kronprinz Rupprecht . By
55-550: The Roman comitatensis (plural: comitatenses ) is sometimes translated as "field army", it may also be translated as the more generic "field force" or "mobile force" (as opposed to limitanei or garrison units). In some armed forces, an "army" is or has been equivalent to a corps-level unit . Prior to 1945, this was the case with a gun ( 軍 ; 'army') within the Imperial Japanese Army , for which
66-493: The end of the war, the 4th Army was organised as: The 4th Army had the following commanders during its existence. The later World War II -era Wehrmacht general Heinz Guderian served as an assistant signals officer (initially as a lieutenant ) at 4th Army HQ until his reassignment to the German general staff in 1918. Field army Specific field armies are usually named or numbered to distinguish them from "army" in
77-612: The formation equivalent in size to a field army was a hōmen-gun ( 方面軍 ; 'area army'). In the Soviet Red Army and the Soviet Air Forces , an army was subordinate in wartime to a front (an equivalent of army group ). It contained at least three to five divisions along with artillery, air defense, reconnaissance and other supporting units. It could be classified as either a combined arms army (CAA) or tank army (TA); and while both were combined arms formations,
88-458: The former contained a larger number of motorized rifle divisions while the latter contained a larger number of tank divisions . In peacetime, a Soviet army was usually subordinate to a military district . Modern field armies are large formations which vary significantly between armed forces in size, composition, and scope of responsibility. For instance, within NATO a field army is composed of
99-512: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about military units and formations which are associated with the same title. If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. [REDACTED] Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fourth_Army&oldid=1060066449#Germany " Category : Military units and formations disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
110-418: The sense of an entire national defence force or land force. In English , the typical orthographic style for writing out the names field armies is word numbers , such as "First Army"; whereas corps are usually distinguished by Roman numerals (e.g. I Corps) and subordinate formations with ordinal numbers (e.g. 1st Division). A field army may be given a geographical name in addition to or as an alternative to
121-724: The war. At the outset of war, the 4th Army, with the 5th Army , formed the center of the German armies on the Western Front , moving through Luxembourg and Belgium in support of the great wheel of the right wing that was to pin down and defeat the French armies. The 4th Army defeated Belgian forces on the frontier , drove the French out of the Ardennes and then encountered the British Expeditionary Force in
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