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Military units and formations disestablished in 1945
- Army Group FGermany feared the Balkans were a weak underbelly, so it created Army Group F in 1943.
- Army Group CentreOn June 22, 1944, the Soviets struck Army Group Centre with 2.3 million soldiers.
- Home ArmyPoland's Home Army sent Britain nearly half its intelligence reports from continental Europe, 1939 to 1945.
- Army Group AThe name Army Group A, Heeresgruppe A in German, belonged to three separate formations of the Heer, the ground forces of the Wehrmacht, during World War II. They shared a label and very little else. The first carried out the plan that led…
- Army Group EWhen the war ended on the 8th of May 1945, Army Group E was still three days' march from Austria.
- Army Group NorthHeeresgruppe Nord, known in English as Army Group North, was not one military formation but three. During World War II the Wehrmacht gave that name to three separate army groups, and each one fought a different campaign in a different…
- 2nd Panzer ArmyThe 2nd Panzer Army began as one general's name on a group of tank divisions.
- Yugoslav PartisansYugoslavia's Partisans reached Trieste two days before the Western Allies. They started with captured rifles.
- Imperial Japanese ArmyIn March 1974, an Imperial Japanese Army officer was still fighting alone in a Philippine jungle.
- Imperial Japanese NavyJapan once made building ocean-going ships a crime punishable by death. Its navy later beat Russia at Tsushima in 1905.
- Kwantung ArmyIn 1931, the Kwantung Army staged the Mukden Incident to justify invading Manchuria. Tokyo had not ordered it.
- German Army (1935–1945)Germany's army hit its goal of 36 divisions just 17 months after Hitler announced rearmament in 1935.