6th ARMY GROUP
6th Army Group, commanded by General Jacob L. Devers, has been assigned the task of training all ground forces which will move from the European Theater to the Pacific, either direct or by way of the United States.
Two combat and one service training headquarters will be set up under the 6th Army Group, under which training will be received by the divisions and other ground units slated to go to the Pacific.
Gen Devers' headquarters, coordinating and exercising general supervision of the redeployment training program, will be in Heidelberg, Germany.
The plan is to train combat and their organic service units in the Zone of American Occupation. Probably ten special training areas, each suitable for accommodating a division and its necessary attached units, will be required as training centers. If time permits all combat units will be given eight weeks of specialized training before leaving for shipment. Most service units, exclusive of those organic to combat units, will receive their redeployment training while performing their present work at their present stations.
12th ARMY GROUP
15th ARMY GROUP
Source: Army and Navy
Journal, June 30, 1945
General Mark W. Clark, who commanded
the Fifth Army and then the 15th Army Group, in the Italian campaign,
has been designated as Commander-in-Chief of United States Occupational
Forces in Austria, Under Secretary of War Patterson announced at his press
conference 28 June.
Austria will be occupied physically in much the same maner as Germany,
with four zones of occupation, one each for the four powers. Vienna is
to be divided into four zones, on the same pattern that Berlin is being
divided.
General Joseph T. McNarney, Deputy Supreme Commander and Commander of
American Forces, Mediterranean Theater, who appeared at the same news
conference, explained that all troops occupying Austria except General
Clark's and II Corps headquarters are being drawn from the European Theater
of Operations. General Clark's headquarters will be in Vienna and II Corps
headquarters in Salzburg. The initial set-up was for two divisions, but
for the first few months three divisions, will be there.
Source: Stars
& Stripes, July 31, 1945
5th Anniversary of 2nd Corps To Be Celebrated in Salzburg
Three former 2nd Corps commanders, all full generals now, have been invited
to join Lt Gen Geoffrey Keyes, the present commanding general, in celebrating
Wednesday the fifth anniversary of the corps' reactivation.
The full generals whom Keyes has invited are Mark W. Clark, George S.
Patton Jr. and Omar N. Bradley.
The celebration, to be held at Salzburg, corps headquarters, will include
an exhibition tennis match at 10 a.m., a short, formal review at 1:30
p.m., and a baseball game at 2:30 p.m. between the teams of the 101st
Airborne and 42nd Inf. Divs. In the evening, enlisted men of corps Headquarters
and Hq Co will dance at the Stein Hotel with Wacs from a Special Service
company, girls from Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe Revue, which is playing
in Augsburg, and with Austrian girls. There will also be an officers dance
at the Hohenzollern Castle.
Having originally been organized during the First World War, the corps
was reactivated on Aug. 1, 1940, and since then has had key roles in the
African, Sicilian and Italian campaigns.
Corps headquarters has been overseas for three years. Divisions that have
served under it include the 9th, 1st, 3rd, 45th, 36th, 34th, 85th, 88th,
91st and 1st Armd. As an occupation unit, it includes the 11th Armd,
42nd Inf and 101st Airborne Divs.
Source: Stars
& Stripes, September 11, 1945
Units of the 222nd Regiment of the 42nd Division
have arrived in (Vienna) to augment American troops who recently assumed
administrative control of the U.S. (sector), it was announced yesterday
at General Mark W. Clark's headquarters.
The first battalion, minus anti-tank and cannon companies, arrived from
Salzburg, where it had been stationed.