THE ORGANIZATION OF GROUND COMBAT TROOPS
Kent Roberts Greenfield, Robert R. Palmer, Bell I. Wiley
U.S. Army in World War II
CMH Pub 2-1, Cloth
1947, 2004; 540 pages, tables, charts, illustrations, bibliographical note, glossaries, index
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Six studies dealing with basic organizational problems. They examine the antecedents of the Army Ground Forces; problems and decisions regarding their size, internal organization, and armament; and the part played by the Army Ground Forces in the redeployment and reorganizations for the final assault on Japan.
| Published: | August 21, 2024 |
The U.S. Army Center of Military History (CMH) is a subordinate command of Army University within the Training and Transformation Command (T2COM). CMH forges a single, comprehensive historical enterprise unparalleled in the U.S. armed forces and is responsible for the appropriate use of history throughout the United States Army. Traditionally, this mission has meant recording the official history of the Army in both peace and war, while advising the Army Staff on historical matters. This organization's enduring purpose is clear: to deliver full-spectrum decision support, steward the Army’s institutional memory, and operationalize history for the future force.
The War Department and the Army underwent a radical reorganization three months after the United States entered World War II. That reorganization consolidated the undeployed forces of the Army in the continental United States under three major commands-the Army Ground Forces (AGF), the Army Air Forces, and the Services of Supply (later the Army Service Forces). It also vested in the commanders of the first two of these great commands the responsibilities which had formerly been exercised by the chiefs of the arms and made these commanders responsible for the organization and training of the combat forces of the Army. These volumes, written during and immediately after the war by historians in the Headquarters, AGF, discuss the exercise of those responsibilities by that headquarters insofar as they pertained to the size and organization of the ground combat forces.
