XIX Corps (United States)

XIX Corps
XIX Corps Shoulder Sleeve Insignia
Active	1942–45 1950–68
Country	United States
Branch	United States Army
Type	Army Corps
Anniversaries	14 June 1944
Engagements	World War II
Commanders
Notable commanders	Willis D. Crittenberger Charles H. Corlett Raymond S. McLain

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XIX Corps was constituted as the III Armored Corps at Camp Polk, Louisiana on 7 July 1942 under the command of Major General Willis D. Crittenberger. It was activated on 20 August the same year at Camp Polk. It was retitled as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, XIX Corps, on 10 October 1943. It fought as part of the First and Ninth U.S. Armies in the Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, and Central Europe campaigns of World War II. Disbanded on 5 September 1945 in France, it was reconstituted on 12 July 1950 in the Army of the United States. It was allotted to the Regular Army in October 1959 and activated on 1 November that year at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. It was inactivated on 1 April 1968 at Fort Chaffee.

Organization: XIX Corps on 1 March 1945
Army Group	Army	Corps	Division
21st Montgomery	Ninth Army Simpson	XIX Corps McLain	2nd Armored Division
			29th Infantry Division
			30th Infantry Division
			83rd Infantry Division

Further reading

• – History of the unit and organization from WWII

External links

• www.xixcorps.nl

Attribution

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Government.: John B. Wilson, Armies, Corps, Divisions, and Separate Brigades, Washington: GPO, 1999