V Corps
V Corps shoulder sleeve insignia
Active	1862–1865; 1898; 1918–1919; 1940–
Country	United States
Branch	Regular Army
Garrison/HQ	Heidelberg, Germany
Nickname	Victory Corps
Motto	It will be done
Engagements	World War I World War II Iraq Campaign
Commanders
Current commander	LTG Kenneth W. Hunzeker
Notable commanders	Leonard Gerow Creighton Abrams Ricardo S. Sanchez Charles P. Summerall
Insignia
Crest

The V Corps (Fifth Corps)—nicknamed the Victory Corps—is a corps of the United States Army. It is headquartered at Campbell Barracks in Heidelberg, Germany.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Civil War 1.2 Spanish-American War 1.3 World War I 1.4 World War II 1.5 Cold War 1.6 Post-Cold War 2 Command and Staff 3 Strength 4 Subordinate units 5 Commanders 6 External links

History

Civil War

Main article: V Corps (ACW)

V Corps was organized May 18, 1862, while the Army of the Potomac, to which it belonged, was engaged on the Peninsular campaign. During the course of V Corps wartime service, the Corps took part in the battles of Hanover Court House; Mechanicsville; Gaines' Mill; Glendale; Malvern Hill; Manassas; Antietam; Shepherdstown Ford; Fredericksburg; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; Rappahannock Station; Mine Run; Wilderness; Alsop's Farm; Laurel Hill; Spotsylvania; North Anna; Totopotomoy; Bethesda Church; Cold Harbor; Petersburg Assault; Siege Of Petersburg; Weldon Railroad; Poplar Spring Church; Hatcher's Run; Dabney's Mills; Gravelly Run; White Oak Road; Five Forks; and Appomattox. V Corps was demobilized on June 28, 1865.

Spanish-American War

V Corps was assembled at Tampa, Florida and sailed for Cuba on July 12, 1898 under the command of William R. Shafter. It was engaged in the battles of Las Guasimas, San Juan Hill, El Caney and the siege of Santiago. Due to sickness and disease the corps returned to New York and was officially disbanded in September 1898.

World War I

V Corps was re-established during World War I at Remiremont, France on July 7, 1918, initially organized by Maj.Gen. William M. Wright. Under the command of Maj. Gen. George H. Cameron it fought in the St. Mihiel offensive. By the end of the war, the Corps had participated in three campaigns and under the command of Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall, it carried the main attack in the decisive Meuse-Argonne offensive. Dubbed the "Victory Corps" in recognition of its rapid advance in the final phase of the war, V Corps returned to the United States in 1919.

World War II

V Corps was reactivated at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, in October 1940, and took part in the famous Louisiana Maneuvers of 1941. The organization deployed to Ireland after Germany declared war on the United States, providing the first American soldiers and the first army headquarters deployed to the European theater in World War II.

V Corps was one of the formations that took part in the D-Day landings, on June 6, 1944. It landed on Omaha Beach with the 1st Infantry Division (United States) and 29th Infantry Division (United States) , and many casualties were suffered there due to the strong German defenses. During the Battle of Normandy, and indeed for almost the whole campaign up to the surrender of Germany, V Corps was assigned to First United States Army. The only exceptions were a brief detachment to Seventh United States Army during the autumn of 1944 and being switched to Third United States Army during the very final days before the enemy surrender.

Cold War

After the war, V Corps remained in Germany until 1946 and then returned to South, then North Carolina. V Corps returned to Germany in June 1951 as part of the American occupation forces and the activation of the two corps US Seventh Army in USAREUR. V Corps' role then evolved into that of countering Soviet forces. Along with VII Corps, it was one of the two main US combat formations in Germany. Specifically, it guarded the vital Fulda Gap against a possible Soviet attack.

With the end of the Cold War came the Gulf War. Although units from V Corps took part in the Persian Gulf War of 1991, the corps headquarters itself did not deploy. They came under the control of VII Corps or XVIII Airborne Corps.

Post-Cold War

After the Persian Gulf War, VII Corps was withdrawn back to the United States and disbanded, leaving V Corps as the only major US combat field headquarters in Europe. Various peacekeeping operations during the 1990s took V Corps units to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. However, as during the Gulf War, the headquarters itself did not deploy. In September 2000, V Corps participated in Operation Victory Strike I, one of the first times American units had ever deployed in Poland. In September 2001, Victory Strike II repeated the exercise. 4000 U.S., Polish, and Italian soldiers took part. The exercise tested a modular plug-in command post system which is expected to be used by U.S. forces in the future.

In March 2002, General Wallace traveled to U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Florida, to discuss contingency plans for deployment to the Middle East. A year later, for the first time since 1945, V Corps headquarters deployed for combat operations. It had many of the American forces committed to Operation Iraqi Freedom under its command. The main units under its command were the 3rd Infantry Division and 101st Airborne Division, along with a brigade from the 82nd Airborne Division. V Corps then handed control over Iraq to III Corps .

A significant portion of V Corps redeployed from Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as Task Force Victory under the command of Lieutenant General Peter W. Chiarelli on December 12, 2006.

In accordance with the US Army's modularization plan, V Corps will be eliminated, leaving I Corps, III Corps, and XVIII Corps.

The 1st Infantry Division returned to the United States in July 2006.

Command and Staff

Commanding General: LTG Hunzeker, effective August, 2007

Command Sergeant Major: CSM Ralph R. Beam, effective August 31, 2005.

Deputy Commanding General: BG Stephen R. Lanza, effective July 3, 2007.

Chief of Staff: Colonel William J. Gallagher, effective May 15, 2007.

Strength

V Corps has 41,000 personnel, though this is reducing with its formations returning to the United States. By 2011, only 24,000 personnel will remain.

Subordinate units

V Corps

• 1st Armored Division
• 2nd Cavalry Regiment
• 172nd Infantry Brigade
• 12th Combat Aviation Brigade
• 18th Military Police Brigade
• 18th Engineer Brigade
• 21st Sustainment Command (Theater)
  • 16th Sustainment Brigade

Additional, now-disbanded formations and units include HQ V Corps Artillery which disbanded during FY 2007.

Commanders

Over the course of its history, V Corps has had fifty-three commanders[1]

MG William M. Wright 12 July 1918 to 20 August 1918 MG George H. Cameron 21 August 1918 to 11 October 1919 MG Charles P. Summerall 12 October 1918 to 2 May 1919 MG Campbell B. Hodges 20 October 1940 to 16 March 1941 MG Edmund L. Daley 17 March 1941 to 19 January 1942 MG William S. Key 10 January 1942 to 19 May 1942 MG Russell P. Hartle 20 May 1942 to 14 July 1943 MG Leonard T. Gerow 15 July 1943 to 17 September 1944 MG Edward H. Brooks 18 September 1944 to 4 October 1944 MG Leonard T. Gerow 5 October 1944 to 14 January 1945 MG Clarence R. Huebner 15 January 1945 to 11 November 1945 MG Frank W. Milburn 12 November 1945 to 6 June 1946 MG Orlando Ward 7 June 1946 to 15 November 1946 MG S. LeRoy Irwin 16 November 1946 to 31 October 1948 LTG John R. Hodge 1 November 1948 to 31 August 1950 LTG John W. Leonard 1 September 1950 to 18 June 1951 BG Boniface Campbell 19 June 1951 to 1 August 1951 MG John E. Dahlquist 2 August 1951 to 4 March 1953 MG Ira P. Swift 5 March 1953 to 17 June 1954 LTG Charles E. Hart 18 June 1954 to 28 March 1956 LTG Lemuel Mathewson 29 March 1956 to 16 August 1957 LTG F. W. Farrell 17 August 1957 to 31 March 1959 LTG Paul D. Adams 1 April 1959 to 30 September 1960 LTG Frederic J. Brown 1 October 1960 to 28 August 1961 LTG John K. Waters 29 August 1961 to 14 May 1962 LTG John H. Michaelis 15 May 1962 to 14 July 1963 LTG Creighton W. Abrams 15 July 1963 to 3 August 1964

LTG James H. Polk 1 September 1964 to 27 February 1966 LTG George R. Mather 28 February 1966 to 31 May 1967 LTG Andrew J. Boyle 1 July 1967 to 31 July 1969 LTG C. E. Hutchin, Jr. 15 September 1969 to 23 January 1971 LTG Willard Pearson 14 February 1971 to 31 May 1973 LTG William R. Desobry 1 June 1973 to 24 August 1975 LTG Robert L. Fair 25 August 1975 to 4 January 1976 LTG Donn A. Starry 16 February 1976 to 17 June 1977 LTG Sidney B. Berry 19 July 1977 to 27 February 1980 LTG Willard W. Scott, Jr. 27 February 1980 to 15 July 1981 LTG Paul S. Williams, Jr. 15 July 1981 to 29 May 1984 LTG Robert L. Wetzel 29 May 1984 to 23 June 1986 LTG Colin L. Powell 23 June 1986 to 1 January 1987 MG Lincoln Jones III 1 January 1987 to 23 March 1987 LTG John W. Woodmansee, Jr. 23 March 1987 to 21 July 1989 LTG George A. Joulwan 7 August 1989 to 9 November 1990 LTG David M. Maddox 9 November 1990 to 17 June 1992 LTG Jerry R. Rutherford 17 June 1992 to 6 April 1995 LTG John N. Abrams 6 April 1995 to 31 July 1997 LTG John W. Hendrix 31 July 1997 to 16 November 1999 LTG James C. Riley 16 November 1999 to 18 July 2001 LTG William S. Wallace 18 July 2001 to 14 June 2003 LTG Ricardo S. Sanchez 14 June 2003 to 6 September 2006 MG Fred D. Robinson 6 September 2006 to 19 January 2007 LTG James D. Thurman 19 January 2007 to 8 August 2007 LTG Kenneth W. Hunzeker 8 August 2007 to present

External links

• V Corps Home Page - official site.
• GlobalSecurity.org: V Corps
• Civil War Archive corps histories

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