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18-550: 15th Army or Fifteenth Army may refer to: 15th Army (Wehrmacht) , a formation of the German Army during World War II Fifteenth Army (Japan) , a formation of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II Japanese Fifteenth Area Army , a formation of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II 15th Army (People's Republic of China) , former name of

36-525: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages 15th Army (Wehrmacht) The 15th Army was activated in occupied France on 15 January 1941 with General Curt Haase in command. It was tasked with occupation and defensive duties in the Pas de Calais area. The Allies landed further west, in Operation Overlord , during June 1944. Afterwards,

54-648: The Ruhr river in 1945. Today, the former HQ of the 15th Army, in Tourcoing , which is just north of Lille in France, is a museum: Musée du 5 juin 1944  [ fr ] . This article about a specific German military unit is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Second Army (United Kingdom) The British Second Army was a field army active during the First and Second World Wars . During

72-916: The 15th Army was withdrawn to the Netherlands, where it fought the Allies during Operation Market Garden in September 1944. It suffered defeat against the First Canadian Army in the Battle of the Scheldt during which the Army Headquarters at Dordrecht was subject to a mass attack by Hawker Typhoons of the Second Tactical Air Force on 24 October 1944. Two generals and 70 other staff officers were killed in

90-455: The 6 June D-Day landings that commenced Operation Overlord , with its remaining units coming ashore during the remainder of Overlord's Normandy campaign. The third corps to land, VIII Corps , entered the line during late June to add its weight to the assault; in particular for the launching of Operation Epsom . The main British objective during the early stages of the campaign was to capture

108-823: The Chinese People's Liberation Army's 15th Airborne Corps 15th Army (RSFSR) 15th Army (Soviet Union) 15th Army Group , a combined formation of the United Kingdom and United States armies during World War II Fifteenth United States Army , a formation of the United States Army during World War II See also [ edit ] XV Corps (disambiguation) 15th Division (disambiguation) 15th Group (disambiguation) 15th Wing (disambiguation) 15th Brigade (disambiguation) 15th Regiment (disambiguation) 15 Squadron (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

126-976: The First World War the army was active on the Western Front throughout most of the war and later active in Italy . During the Second World War the army was the main British contribution to the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 and advance across Europe . The Second Army was part of the British Army formed on 26 December 1914, when the British Expeditionary Force was split in two due to becoming too big to control its subordinate formations. The army controlled both III Corps and IV Corps . Second Army spent most of

144-611: The French city of Caen , the so-called Battle for Caen . However, due to various factors the city was not captured until mid-July during Operation Atlantic , conducted by Canadian troops under the command of Second Army. By the end of July, American forces had broken out of Normandy. As they swept east, the German Seventh Army was pinned by the Second Army and trapped in pockets around Falaise . The German formation

162-762: The German Army Group B , under General Walter Model , in an enormous pocket in the Ruhr . With Army Group B trapped, the last major German formation in the west had been neutralized. Second Army reached the Weser on 4 April, the Elbe on 19 April, the shore of the Baltic Sea at Lübeck on 2 May. On 3 May, Hamburg capitulated. By 7 May the Soviet Army had met up with the British forces. Shortly thereafter,

180-752: The attack. During October 1944 the 15th Army continued to resist against the Canadian First Army and British Second Army as they pushed west from the Nijmegen / Eindhoven salient in Operation Pheasant . The British Second Army cleared the 15th Army from the Roer Triangle during Operation Blackcock , pushing it back over the Rur and Wurm rivers. It was involved in the Battle of Hurtgen Forest before finally surrendering along

198-673: The completion of the advance on the River Roer . During February, 1945, Second Army entered a holding phase. Whilst it pinned down the German forces facing it, the Canadian First Army and US Ninth Army made a pincer movement from north and south (Operations Veritable and Grenade ) which pierced the Siegfried Line in that area and cleared the remaining German forces west of the Rhine in conjunction with further American offensives in

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216-466: The control of Second Army, were landed to capture vital bridges over several rivers in the east of the Netherlands, in order to allow Second Army's XXX Corps to cross the Rhine and advance into Germany , relieving the parachute troops en route. However, the single road XXX Corps had to traverse caused enormous logistical difficulties and, combined with German counterattacks, the operation failed resulting in

234-578: The loss of much of the 1st Airborne Division during the Battle of Arnhem . Second Army spent the rest of 1944 exploiting the salient in the German line that it had created during Operation Market Garden, to advance on the Rhine and Meuse rivers in the Netherlands . The final part of this advance took place in mid-January 1945, with the clearing of the Roermond Triangle (codename Operation Blackcock ) by XII and VIII Corps. This enabled

252-506: 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=Fifteenth_Army&oldid=831027302 " Category : Military units and formations disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

270-597: The south of the Rhineland . Second Army crossed the Rhine on 23 March in an attack codenamed Operation Plunder . It then headed across the North German Plain towards Osnabrück , with the First Canadian Army on its left wheeling to clear the north of the Netherlands and the area of Lower Saxony west of Oldenburg . The US Ninth Army on its right turned south-east towards Lippstadt to trap

288-649: The war positioned around the Ypres salient, but was redeployed to Italy as part of the Italian Expeditionary Force between November 1917 and March 1918. In 1919 it was reconstituted as the British Army of the Rhine . The formation was commanded by Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey and served under the 21st Army Group . Two of its formations, I Corps (also containing Canadian units) and XXX Corps took part in Operation Neptune,

306-551: Was disbanded in August 1944 to make up for the infantry deficit. Second Army entered Belgium quickly, and cleared much of the country. Its captures included the capital Brussels and the port city of Antwerp . Second Army's highest profile operation in 1944, apart from Operation Overlord, was providing the main force for Operation Market Garden . During the operation, American ( 82nd and 101st ), British ( 1st ) and Polish ( 1st Polish Parachute Brigade ) airborne troops , outside

324-663: Was subsequently annihilated during the battle of the Falaise pocket . The Second Army then commenced a dash across France in parallel with the Americans on its right, and the Canadians on its left. During the interim, I Corps was transferred from Second Army's control, and assigned to the First Canadian Army . Due to the heavy casualties sustained by the army during the Normandy campaign, the 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division

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