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Name: 5th Army Headquarters: Fort Sam Houston Dates Active: Jan. 5, 1943- Oct. 2, 1945 Branch of Military: Field army Commanding Officer: Gen. Mark Clark.

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Friend #1 36th Army Helped us Friend #2 7th Army Helped us Friend #3 15th Army Helped us Friend #4 Mark Clark. Gerneral Friend #5 Franklin D. Roosevelt president

About Me
War was declared - Dec. 10, 1941 - Adolf Hitler declared war on the United States. The U.S. military needed more units, to fight the Nazis. This is how Fifth Army was created. The Fifth Army was active Jan. 5, 1943, to assist with the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa, and its first commander was Lt. Gen. Mark Clark.

After North Africa was defended and safe, the Fifth Army served as the main U.S. army of Operation Avalanche, the fight at Salerno, Italy on September, 1943. For the first few months of the invasion, Fifth Army made good progress up the Italian peninsula until the German Army established defensive positions. In the spring of 1944, the Allied forces were able to break through the German defenses and continue their march to Rome.

The Fifth did not stop in Rome for long, they continued to fight their way through Italy and on May 5, 1945 they helped with the U.S. Seventh Army near the Austrian-Italian border and three days later, the war in Europe was over. Fifth Army had fought for 602 days, a record for any American military unit. The Fifth Army stopped on Oct. 2, 1945 at Camp Myles Standish.

Wall Posts

 * Wall Post #1: We just joined the fight on Dec. 10, 1941.
 * Wall Post #2: Today we broke past the German defenses. September, 1943
 * Wall Post #3: Today we are helping the 7th army fight. May 5, 1945
 * Wall Post #4: Today we stopped fighting. Now we all get to go home and be with our families. Oct. 2, 1945