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Military units and formations disestablished in 1945

  • Army Group FArmy Group F was a strategic command formation of the Wehrmacht, created on the 12th of August 1943 at Bayreuth, in the German military district known as WK…
  • Army Group CentreArmy Group Centre, known in German as Heeresgruppe Mitte, was born on the 18th of December 1940, when Adolf Hitler signed Führer Directive 21.
  • Home ArmyThe Home Army, known in Polish as the Armia Krajowa, operated in the shadows of one of the most brutally occupied countries in World War II.
  • Army Group AOn the 26th of October 1939, the German military renamed Army Group South to Army Group A. This new formation took its place along the France, Germany border…
  • Army Group EArmy Group E, known in German as Heeresgruppe E, held one of the most sprawling and brutal commands of the entire Second World War.
  • Army Group NorthThe staff of Army Group North assembled on the 2nd of September 1939. It emerged from the headquarters of the 2nd Army, which had activated just days earlier…
  • 2nd Panzer ArmyThe 2nd Panzer Army began not as an army at all, but as a single commander's name stamped onto a formation of armored divisions.
  • Yugoslav PartisansThe Yugoslav Partisans began the war as a ragged band of guerrillas with captured rifles and no infrastructure. They ended it with over 800,000 soldiers…
  • Imperial Japanese ArmyThe Imperial Japanese Army once counted six million men in its ranks. Yet in March 1974, one of them, an intelligence officer named Hiroo Onoda, was still…
  • Imperial Japanese NavyThe Imperial Japanese Navy rose from almost nothing to become the third most powerful fleet in the world by 1920, then destroyed itself trying to hold an…
  • Kwantung ArmyThe Kwantung Army began in 1906 as a garrison of 14,000 men tasked with guarding a railway zone and a leased peninsula on China's southern coast.
  • German Army (1935–1945)In the span of just 17 months after Adolf Hitler announced Germany's rearmament programme in 1935, the German Army reached its projected goal of 36 divisions.