Talk:Seventh United States Army

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see lists of open tasks and regional and topical task forces. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.

Start This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale.

Additional information and associated task forces:

	This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-Class status: Referencing and citation: not checked Coverage and accuracy: not checked Structure: not checked Grammar: not checked Supporting materials: not checked To fill out this checklist, please add the following to the template call: `<!-- B-Class-1. It is suitably referenced, and all major points have appropriate inline citations. -->` `\|B-Class-1=yes/no` `<!-- B-Class-2. It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. -->` `\|B-Class-2=yes/no` `<!-- B-Class-3. It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content. -->` `\|B-Class-3=yes/no` `<!-- B-Class-4. It is free from major grammatical errors. -->` `\|B-Class-4=yes/no` `<!-- B-Class-5. It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams. -->` `\|B-Class-5=yes/no`
Associated task forces (nations and regions):
	United States military history task force
Associated task forces (periods and conflicts):
	World War II task force

just a note: General Bernard Montgomery leads nowhere, while General Bernard Montgomery does.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ugen64 (talk • contribs) 08:18, 12 November 2003.

With French and American forces established ashore in significant numbers, Seventh Army and the French Army B came under the new 12th Army Group headquarters.

Is this true? Because later in the war The 12th Army Group consisted of US First Army, US Third Army, US Ninth Army and US Fifteenth Army. If the Seventh Army and the French Army B were transfered back to the 6th Army group then the word temporary should be added to the sentence. Also what is French Army B'? I thought that only the French First Army was involved in the invasion. Philip Baird Shearer 17:42, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Why the Loop?

Why do the U.S. Seventh Army and U.S. Army Europe articles loop back and forth to each other? If they're separate commands they should have separate articles.

[edit] Wrong date for merger 7th Army & USAREUR

Having been stationed at Hq 7th Army in the 60's I can say that the date of 1961 for the merger of 7th Army & USAREUR is all wrong.

Hq 7th Army was still a separate command until 1967. I left Stuttgart - Vaihingen (Patch Barracks) just prior to Thanksgiving 1966 enroute to VN. The HQ consolidation took place in the spring of 1967.

[edit] Xanadu

I removed the following from Xanadu, it might be of interest here (but it's completely unsourced).

In 1953, Seventh Army Special Services in Stuttgart, Germany produced an all-soldier original musical called Xanadu which toured both civilian and military theaters over a five year period. The story dealt with Marco Polo's visit to Kublai Khan, and the experienced cast and writers were drawn from military units all over the world in an effort to bring a genuine Broadway-style show to audiences in occupied Europe.

MickMacNee (talk) 23:27, 8 May 2008 (UTC)