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    Mission Accomplished: The Story of the Campaigns of the Seventh Corps, United States Army In the War Against Germany, 1944-1945
    Mission Accomplished: The Story of the Campaigns of the Seventh Corps, United States Army In the War Against Germany, 1944-1945
    Mission Accomplished: The Story of the Campaigns of the Seventh Corps, United States Army In the War Against Germany, 1944-1945
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    Mission Accomplished: The Story of the Campaigns of the Seventh Corps, United States Army In the War Against Germany, 1944-1945

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    Merriam Press World War 2 History Series. New edition of a unit history originally published in 1945 in Germany, compiled from the official history of the VII Corps, summarizing the events which occurred during its participation in the defeat of Germany, from its creation in late 1940, through training in the States and, later, England, landing in Normandy at Utah Beach and fighting across France and into Germany, the Battle of the Bulge, the Rhineland, the Rose Pocket, to the end of the war. Includes an appendix listing all of the units which served with the VII Corps in the ETO. Contents: Foreword: Lt. Gen. J. Lawton Collins, U.S. Army. Introduction. Preparation for D-Day. Invasion! South Out of Normandy. The Race Across France. On Into Germany. Slow and Steady. The Battle of the Bulge. Rhineland Reoccupied 1945. The Rose Pocket. Wehrmacht Kaput. Appendix 1: Statistical Summary. Appendix 2: Troop List. 31 photos, 9 maps, 2 illustrations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMerriam Press
    Release dateOct 13, 2015
    ISBN9781576384282
    Mission Accomplished: The Story of the Campaigns of the Seventh Corps, United States Army In the War Against Germany, 1944-1945

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      Mission Accomplished - Ray Merriam

      Mission Accomplished: The Story of the Campaigns of the Seventh Corps, United States Army In the War Against Germany, 1944-1945

      Mission Accomplished: The Story of the Campaigns of the Seventh Corps, United States Army In the War Against Germany, 1944-1945

      Ray Merriam

      Editor

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      Military Monograph 26

      Bennington, Vermont

      2015

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      First eBook Edition

      Copyright © 1998 by Merriam Press

      First reprinted by the Merriam Press in 1998

      Additional material copyright of named contributors.

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

      The views expressed are solely those of the author.

      ISBN 9781576384282

      This work was designed, produced, and published in the United States of America by the Merriam Press, 133 Elm Street, Suite 3R, Bennington VT 05201.

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      Publisher’s Note

      First published in 1945 by J.J. Weber, Leipzig, Germany. The first edition had a printing of 2,000 copies; the second edition had a printing of 25,000 copies.

      A special thank you is given to Robert C. Baldridge, a veteran of the 9th Infantry Division, and author of Merriam Press’ Military Monograph Victory Road, an account of his wartime experiences, for loaning his copy of Mission Accomplished for reprinting.

      Dedication

      This story is compiled from the official history of the VII Corps and faithfully summarizes the events which occurred during its participation in the defeat of Germany.

      All pictures are official Signal Corps photographs.

      Passed by censor for mailing home.

      Foreword

      8 June 1945

      To the Officers and Men of the VII Corps for whom this short account of our activities is primarily written, I want to say once more that all our success has been the direct result of your splendid teamwork. The proof of this is the fact that the fine divisions which have fought under us have been sorry to leave us and glad to come back. This means that the Corps Troops and Staff know their business and look after the divisions as they should. That can be true only because each one of us has had the true interests of the Corps at heart and has played his part up to the hilt. I am eternally grateful to each and every one of you.

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      J. LAWTON COLLINS

      Lieutenant General, U.S. Army

      Commanding VII Corps

      Introduction

      In 1940, when many of us were still waiting for our Greetings from the President, Headquarters VII Corps, United States Army, was activated in the bustle of busy Fort McClellan, Alabama. It was 25 November 1940. Europe was at war. One unprepared country after another had fallen to the military might of a rearmed Germany, and Nazism and Fascism were spreading like plagues over Europe. The United States was preparing to defend itself, expanding its Army, Navy, and Air Forces, training and equipping hundreds of thousands of civilians against the threat of Axis domination.

      Major General Frederic H. Smith, accompanied by his Chief of Staff, Lieutenant Colonel J. Lawton Collins, arrived in Alabama in January 1941 to take command of the Corps, and later in that month the command post was set up in Ensley, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. The first job was to train three National Guard infantry divisions, the 27th, 33rd, and 35th, all three of which had recently been activated in the Army of the United States. Several months of basic training and combat exercises culminated in Corps maneuvers in Tennessee during June 1941 when these three divisions and the 5th Infantry and 2nd Armored Divisions took to the field in mock warfare. It was the Corps’ first taste of field operations, the fore­runner of many days in France, Belgium, and Germany.

      In July 1941, Major General Robert C. Richardson Jr. assumed command of VII Corps, and a few weeks later, during August and September, led the Corps through Army maneuvers in Arkansas and Louisiana. As troops of the Second and Third Armies attacked, maneuvered, withdrew and attacked again in one of our biggest shows of American military might, VII Corps more than once distinguished itself in the sham battle. It still had its original three divisions, and maneuver directors attached the 2nd Armored and 2nd Cavalry Divisions to the Corps for several exercises. More and more people realized that their troops were now training and preparing for the real thing, the day when they would be called to repel an invader or to be invaders themselves against the Axis powers. Late in September the troops moved back to the comparative luxury of their barracks, to review the lessons they had learned and to correct the weaknesses that two months in the field had disclosed.

      War struck quickly and without warning. Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese on 7 December 1941, and within two days the United States was at war with Germany, Japan, and Italy. The West Coast was threatened, and our best trained troops were rushed to that area. Two weeks after the Japanese attack on our Pacific island bases, Headquarters VII Corps was esta­blished in San Jose, California, where it served in the dual role of securing the Northern California Sector of the Western Defense Command from enemy attack and of training and preparing units for movement to

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