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5th Army (other)
Fifth Army may refer to: Germany * 5th Army (German Empire), a World War I field Army * 5th Army (Wehrmacht), a World War II field army * 5th Panzer Army * 5th Army (GDR), a Warsaw Pact field army in the Cold War to be activated in case of a war with NATO Russia/USSR * 5th Army (Russian Empire) * 5th Army (RSFSR) * 5th Army (Soviet Union) * 5th Combined Arms Army (Russian Federation) Others * 5th Army (Austria-Hungary) * Fifth Army (Bulgaria) * Fifth Army (Nationalist China), see 88th Division (National Revolutionary Army) * Fifth Army (France) * Fifth Army (Japan) * Fifth Army (Ottoman Empire) * Fifth Army (United Kingdom) * Fifth United States Army * Fifth Army (Italy) The 5th Army ( it, 5ª Armata) was a World War I and World War II field army of the Royal Italian Army. World War I In World War I the 5th Army was created on 25 May 1916 to help stop the Austrian Trentino Offensive. It was again disbanded on 2 J ... * 5th Army (Kingdom of Yugoslavia) {{mil-unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Army (German Empire)
The 5th Army (german: 5. Armee / Armeeoberkommando 5 / A.O.K. 5) was an army level command of the German Army in World War I. It was formed on mobilization in August 1914 seemingly from the VII Army Inspection. The army was disbanded in 1919 during demobilization after the war. History In August 1914 the command of 5th Army was assigned to Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir to the Hohenzollern throne, with General Schmidt von Knobelsdorf serving as his chief of staff, and would remain thus until late 1916. The opening hostilities on the Western Front saw the Crown Prince's 5th Army, along with the neighboring 4th Army (commanded by Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg), acting at the center of the Schlieffen plan attack into Belgium and France. On 21 August 1914, in what became known as the Battle of the Ardennes, 4th and 5th Armies advanced into the Ardennes to counter a thrust by the French 3rd and 4th Armies. Over the next two days 5th Army played a major part in hal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifth Army (Bulgaria)
The Bulgarian Fifth Army was a Bulgarian field army during the Second Balkan War and World War II. First Formation The Fifth Army was formed in May 1913 under the name of the ''First Reserve Army'', comprising two infantry divisions, the 12th and 13th. Each had 1 artillery brigade, seven infantry regiments, one cavalry brigade, and three border companies. Its commander was Major General Stefan Toshev. On May 26, the 4th Preslav Infantry Division was included in the Fifth Army in place of the 13th Division. The Fifth Army fought against the Serbs in Osogovo. It was disbanded on August 22, 1913. Second Formation On May 17, 1940, after the outbreak of World War II (1941-1945), the Fifth Covering Army was formed. It was given the task of covering the southwestern border of Bulgaria. After the German conquest of the Balkans, the army was reformed into the Fifth Bulgarian Army with Commander Nikola Mikhov. Its task was to replace German troops as occupation force in Southern Yu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifth United States Army
Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five. Fifth or The Fifth may refer to: * Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth" * Fifth column, a political term * Fifth disease, a contagious rash that spreads in school-aged children * Fifth force, a proposed force of nature in addition to the four known fundamental forces * Fifth (Stargate), a robotic character in the television series ''Stargate SG-1'' * Fifth (unit), a unit of volume used for distilled beverages in the U.S. * Fifth-generation programming language * The fifth in a series, or four after the first: see ordinal numbers * 1st Battalion, 5th Marines * The Fraction 1/5 * The royal fifth (Spanish and Portuguese), an old royal tax of 20% Music * A musical interval (music); specifically, a ** perfect fifth ** diminished fifth ** augmented fifth * Quintal harmony, in which chords concatenate fifth intervals (rather than the third intervals of tertian harmony) * Fifth (chord) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifth Army (United Kingdom)
The Fifth Army was a field army of the British Army during World War I that formed part of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front between 1916 and 1918. The army originated as the Reserve Corps during the preparations for the British part of the Somme Offensive of 1916, was renamed Reserve Army when it was expanded and became the Fifth Army in October 1916. History The Fifth Army was created on 30 October 1916, by renaming the Reserve Army (General Hubert Gough). It participated in the Battle of the Ancre, which became the final British effort in the Battle of the Somme. In 1917, the Fifth Army was involved in the Battle of Arras and then the Third Battle of Ypres. The following year, the Fifth Army took over a stretch of front-line previously occupied by the French south of the River Somme and on 21 March, bore the brunt of the opening phase of the German Spring Offensive, known as Operation Michael. The failure of the Fifth Army to withstand the German adva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifth Army (Ottoman Empire)
The Fifth Army of the Ottoman Empire or Turkish Fifth Army was formed on March 24, 1915, and dissolved on November 21, 1918. It was assigned the responsibility of defending the Dardanelles straits in World War I. The original commander of the army was the German military advisor to the Ottoman Empire, General Otto Liman von Sanders. The command passed to Vehip Pasha who became responsible for the Helles front while von Sanders still wielded considerable influence. Order of Battle, April 1915 In late April 1915, the army was structured as follows:Edward J. Erickson, ''Order to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War'', Greenwood Press, 2001, , p. 86. * III Corps (commanded by Esat Pasha) ** 7th Division, 9th Division, 19th Division (commanded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk) * XV Corps (commanded by Colonel Hans Kannengiesser) ** 3rd Division, 11th Division * Dardanelles Fortified Area Command * One aircraft squadron When the Allied campaign the Battle of Gal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifth Army (Japan)
The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army based in Manchukuo from the Russo-Japanese War until the end of World War II. During World War II it was under the overall command of the Kwantung Army. History Russo-Japanese War The Japanese 5th Army, then known as the Yalu River Army, was initially raised on January 15, 1905 in the final stages of the Russo-Japanese War under the command of General Kawamura Kageaki out of only the 11th Infantry Division and three reserve brigades. It took successfully part in the battle of Mukden, when the 5th Army flanked the Russian left wing. It was disbanded at Mukden in January, 1906 after the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth at the end of the war. Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II The Japanese 5th Army was raised again on December 7, 1937 in Manchukuo as a garrison force to guard the eastern borders against possible incursions by the Soviet Red Army. As it was based on the eastern frontier, it was not a participant in the Nom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifth Army (France)
The Fifth Army (french: Ve Armée) was a fighting force that participated in World War I. Under its commander, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, it led the attacks which resulted in the victory at the First Battle of the Marne in 1914. World War I Commanders *General Lanrezac (Mobilization - 3 September 1914) *General Franchet d'Espérey (3 September 1914 - 31 March 1916) *General Mazel (31 March 1916 - 22 May 1917) ::Fought in the Second Battle of the Aisne *General Micheler (22 May 1917 - 10 June 1918) *General Buat (10 June 1918 - 5 July 1918) *General Berthelot (5 July 1918 - 7 October 1918) *General Guillaumat (7 October 1918 - Armistice) Notable People During the first World War, Louis II of Monaco served as a Brigadier General. World War II Commanders *General Victor Bourret (2 September 1939 – 26 June 1940) References See also *List of French armies in WWI List of armies — List of French armies in World War I This page is a list of French arm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
88th Division (National Revolutionary Army)
The 88th Division () was a German-trained and reorganized division in the National Revolutionary Army. First Battle of Shanghai The division was present at the First Battle of Shanghai in 1932 under the command of General Yu Jishi as part of the Fifth Army, fighting alongside the 19th Route Army. Order of Battle (1932) *5th Army - Zhang Zhizhong (張治中) **88th Division - General Yu Jishi (余濟時) :**262nd Brigade - Qin Lungti ( 錢倫體) :**264th Brigade - Yang Bufei (楊步飛) The 88th Division as a German-trained division In 1927 after the dissolution of the First United Front between the Nationalists and the Communists, the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) purged its leftist members and completely eliminated Soviet influence from its ranks. Chiang Kai-shek turned to Germany, historically a great military power, for assistance in the reorganization of the National Revolutionary Army. The Weimar Republic sent advisors to China, however due to restrictions imposed by the T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifth Army (Nationalist China)
Fifth Army may refer to: Germany * 5th Army (German Empire), a World War I field Army * 5th Army (Wehrmacht), a World War II field army * 5th Panzer Army * 5th Army (GDR), a Warsaw Pact field army in the Cold War to be activated in case of a war with NATO Russia/USSR * 5th Army (Russian Empire) * 5th Army (RSFSR) * 5th Army (Soviet Union) * 5th Combined Arms Army (Russian Federation) Others * 5th Army (Austria-Hungary) * Fifth Army (Bulgaria) * Fifth Army (Nationalist China), see 88th Division (National Revolutionary Army) * Fifth Army (France) * Fifth Army (Japan) * Fifth Army (Ottoman Empire) * Fifth Army (United Kingdom) * Fifth United States Army * Fifth Army (Italy) *5th Army (Kingdom of Yugoslavia) * Special Frontier Force The Special Frontier Force (SFF) is an Indian special operations unit created on 14 November 1962. It mainly comprised Tibetan refugees living in India. Now it has increased in size and scope of operations. Its primary goal originally was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Army (Austria-Hungary)
The Austro-Hungarian Fifth Army was an Austro-Hungarian field army that fought during World War I. Actions The Fifth Army was formed in 1914 as part of Austro-Hungarian mobilization following its declaration of war on Serbia and Russia. The Fifth Army was put under the command of Gen. Liborius Ritter von Frank. Between August and December 1914, it fought in the Serbian Campaign and suffered such enormous casualties that it was disbanded on 27 December 1914. It participated in the : * Battle of Cer (August 1914), * Battle of Drina (September - October 1914) * Battle of Kolubara (November - December 1914). The Fifth Army was reestablished in May 1915 on the Italian Front, where it remained active until the end of the War. On 24 May 1917, it was renamed the Isonzo Army. On 23 August 1917, the Isonzo Army was upgraded to Army Group Boroević (Heeresgruppe "Boroević") which was composed of 2 armies: * First Isonzo Army, under command of Wenzel von Wurm. * Second Isonzo Arm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Army (Wehrmacht)
The 5th Army () was a field army of the Wehrmacht during World War II. History The 5th Army was established on 25 August 1939 in ''Wehrkreis'' VI with General Curt Liebmann in command. Responsible for the defense of the Siegfried Line in the vicinity of Trier as part of Army Group C from 3 September, the army was assigned the Eifel Border Troops ( 86th, Trier Border, 26th, and 227th Divisions) and the VI Army Corps (16th, 69th, 211th, and 216th Infantry Divisions). It also included the 58th, 87th, 78th, and 268th Infantry Divisions in army reserve. During this period, known as the Phoney War, no action took place on its sector of the Siegfried Line. On 13 October it was transferred to the east as Border Section Centre High Command (''Oberkommando Grenzabschnitt Mitte''). The latter served as a security force in occupied Poland. On 4 November 1939 it was renamed the 18th Army. Commanders See also * 5th Army (German Empire) for the equivalent formation in World Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Combined Arms Army
The 5th Combined Arms Red Banner Army (5-я общевойсковая армия) is a Russian Ground Forces formation in the Eastern Military District. It was formed in 1939, served during the Soviet invasion of Poland that year, and was deployed in the southern sector of the Soviet defences when Adolf Hitler's Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941 during World War II. In the disastrous first months of Barbarossa, the 5th Army was encircled and destroyed around Kiev. Reformed under Lelyushenko and Govorov, it played a part in the last-ditch defence of Moscow, and then in the string of offensive and defensive campaigns that eventually saw the Soviet armies retake all of Soviet territory and push west into Poland and beyond into Germany itself. The 5th Army itself only advanced as far as East Prussia before it was moved east to take part in the Soviet attack on Japan. Since 1945, under the Soviet and now Russian flag it has formed part of the Far East Military District keep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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