NationMaster - Encyclopedia: American 12th Army Group

The 12th Army Group was the largest and most powerful American formation ever to take to the field. It controlled the majority of American forces on the western front in 1944 and 1945. It was commanded by General Omar Bradley.

12th Army Group occupied the right flank of the Allied lines in Normandy, and the centre of the Allied line after 6th Army Group came into the line. At its peak it controlled four field armies, US First Army, US Third Army, US Ninth Army and US Fifteenth Army.

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Omar Nelson Bradley, General of the Army (7182 words)
	His last command, the 12th U.S. Army Group, was the largest body of American soldiers ever to serve under one field commander; at its peak it consisted of four field armies.
	In February 1941, as the Army was expanding in anticipation of war with the Axis Powers, Marshall promoted Bradley from lieutenant colonel to brigadier general, skipping the rank of colonel, and sent him to Fort Benning to command the Infantry School.
	Under command of George Patton's Seventh Army, Bradley's corps was in the vanguard of the Operation HUSKY assault, and it moved inland against negligible resistance.

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