1,020,581 officers and men (excluding US forces) 9,248 tanks 6,584 artillery pieces 1,600 aircraft (2nd Tactical Air Force)[1]
Part of
Allied Expeditionary Force
Engagements
World War II
Western Front
Operation Market Garden
Battle of the Nijmegen salient
Commanders
Notable commanders
Bernard Paget Bernard Montgomery
Military unit
The 21st Army Group was a British headquarters formation formed during the Second World War. It controlled two field armies and other supporting units, consisting primarily of the British Second Army and the First Canadian Army. Established in London during July 1943, under the command of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), it was assigned to Operation Overlord, the Western Allied invasion of Europe, and was an important Allied force in the European Theatre. At various times during its existence, the 21st Army Group had additional British, Canadian, American and Polish field armies or corps attached to it. The 21st Army Group operated in Northern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany from June 1944 until August 1945, when it was renamed the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR).
^Notes on the Operations of the 21st Army Group, 6 June 1944-5 May 1945. Retrieved 16 August 2018
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switched to XVIII Corps, US First Army, 12th ArmyGroup — and later that day to XVIII Corps, US First Army, 21stArmyGroup. On 18 January 1945, the alignment...
Allied 21stArmyGroup (Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery) crossed the Rhine in Operation Plunder on 23 March. The lead elements of the two Allied army groups...
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of staff. British general Bernard Montgomery was in charge of the 21stArmyGroup which included all the ground forces in the operation. Montgomery was...
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operations of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery's Anglo-Canadian 21stArmyGroup in the Western Allied invasion of Germany from 8 January 1945 until...
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