IV Corps (United States)
IV Corps | |
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Active | 1918–19 1922–45 1958–68 |
Country | United States |
Branch | Army |
Size | Corps |
Engagements | World War I
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Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Charles Henry Muir Stanley Dunbar Embick Alexander Patch Willis D. Crittenberger |
U.S. Corps (1939–present) | ||||
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IV Corps was a corps-sized formation of the United States Army that saw service in both World War I and World War II.
World War I
The corps was first organized on 20 June 1918, during World War I as part of the American Expeditionary Forces. Under Major General Charles H. Muir serving on the Western Front, as Headquarters IV Army Corps. It participated in the offensives of St. Mihiel and Lorraine, being demobilized in Germany on 11 May 1919.[1]
Interwar period
The IV Corps was reconstituted in the
World War II
Continuing the lineage of the World War I IV Corps, a second IV Corps was constituted in the Regular Army and activated on 27 June 1944 in Italy, being consolidated with the second, active, IV Corps that had been formed in 1922.
Under command of Major General Willis D. Crittenberger, the IV Corps took part in the fighting through the summer of 1944 as the Fifth Army, under the command of Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, and the British Eighth Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Sir Oliver W. H. Leese, advanced north to the River Arno. In the autumn and winter of 1944, the IV Corps formed the central wing of the Fifth Army's sector, taking the major role in the Fifth Army's assault on the Gothic Line in the central Apennine Mountains, fighting to break through to the Lombardy plains beyond.[5][6][7]
Inactivation
In the spring of 1945 the corps, still in the Fifth Army's central sector, took part in the successful
.The corps was inactivated on 13 October 1945, at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, it was reactivated again at Birmingham, Alabama, in 1958 and inactivated at Birmingham in 1968.[8]
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-1-929631-59-9
- Moraes, Mascarenhas de, The Brazilian Expeditionary Force, By Its Commander US Government Printing Office, 1966. ASIN B000PIBXCG
- ISBN 85-7011-219-X(of 1997 printing (in Portuguese) )
- Wilson, John B. "Armies, Corps, Divisions, and Separate Brigades | Army Lineage Series" U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999. CMH Pub 60-7-1. ISBN 0160499925
Notes
- ^ Wilson, 1999. Page 55.
- ^ Clay, Steven E. (2010). U.S. Army Order of Battle, 1919-1941, Volume 1. The Arms: Major Commands and Infantry Organizatioms. Fort Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute Press. p. 151.
- ^ Wilson, 1999. Pages 55-56
- ^ Clark, 2007 (1950).
- ^ Clark, 2007 (1950).
- ^ Moraes, 1966.
- ^ Crittenberger, 1952.
- ^ Ibidem Wilson, 1999.