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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 CentreAdolf Hitler issued Führer Directive 21 on the 18th of December 1940. This order commanded German forces to prepare for an attack on Soviet Russia in 1941.
- 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 ArmyOn the 27th of January 1868, Tokugawa Yoshinobu marched on Kyoto with a force of 15,000 men. These troops included units trained by French military advisers.
- 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 ArmyIn 1906, the Kwantung Garrison began as a small security force of 14,000 men. It guarded the Kwantung Leased Territory on the Liaodong Peninsula and…
- 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.