Evening star., 1945-05-22
1st Army 10 Be Shifted
To Pacific Via u. ).
With 3O-Day Leaves
By the Associated Press.


By the Associated Press.
The American 1St Army, which
blazed a path for Allied troops
across the German frontier and
broke the Siegfried Line, soon
will be stalking Japanese.
Numbering some 10000 men a
month ago, the Army commanded
by Gen. Courtney H. Hodges is being
redeployed by way of the United
States, with 30-day furloughs await
ing its members here.
1t is the first sizable contingent
the War Department has officially
announced will move from the Eu-
ropean theater to the Pacific.
Troops of the 1st parachuted into
France before H hour on D day.
Then, in one of the most dramatic
campaigns in American military his
tory, the Army slashed through
France, Belgium and into Germany
killing or capturing hundreds of
thousands of Nazis. Units of the
1st were credited with the capture
of Paris.
Made First Rhine Crossing.
Breaking through the vaunted
Siegfried Line to lead the way into
the Reich, the 1st seized and estab-
lished the Remagen bridgehead over
the Rhine.
Gen. Hodges men, too, were the
first to join the Russians at the Elbe.
Gen. Hodges, tough and resilient
commander, has served over 40 years
in the Army. He worked his way up
through tie ranks.
The War Departments announce
ment last night said:
"The divisions and Army corps
that fight with the 1st Army against
Japan will not necessarily be the
same as those that fought in Ger
many. However, enough veteran
units and veteran personnel will take
the field under Gen. Hodges to in
sure the same vigorous assault
against the japanese as was made
by the 1st Army against the Ger
mans"
Fighting Record Praised.
The 1st Army's fighting record, the
said, ranks with the
proudest in the Allied Expeditionary
Force. Although the Army itself did
not enter combat until the invasion
Of the Normandy coast, several of its
units took part in its original land
ings in North Africa. Sicily and
Italy"
The announcement came only
hours after President Truman had
said bluntly that the United States
is amassing Overwhelming force" to
strike the japanese. The Chief Ex-
ecutive's statement was made to
Joint session of Congress honoring
a Congressional Medal of Honor
winner-a 1st Army technical SER
2eant, Jake w. Lindsey of Lucedale,
Miss.
1t was Mr. Truman who in his
first week in Office went over the
heads of the Army high command
to give Gen. Hodges, along with
George S. Patton, jr., Sd Army COM
four-star rank.
Gen. George c. Marshall, Chief of
Staff. earlier had told Senators that
Gems. Hodges and Patton couldn't
be raised to full generals because
they commanded only one army
each, rather than an army group.
But Mr.. Truman disagreed.
AS of April II, the 1st Army was
composed of four corps, embracing
i3 divisions. These corps and dlv1-
sions, together with their command
ing officers, were announced as
follows:
Third Corps-Mai. Gen. James A.
Vanfleet.
Fifth Corps-Maj. Gen. Clarence
r. Huebner.
Seventh Corps-Maj Gen. J. Law
ton Collins.
Eighteenth Airborne Corps-Maj.
Gen. Mathew B. Ridgeway.
Divisions.
First Infantry-Maj. Gen. Cliff
Andrus.
Second Infantry-Maj. Gen. Wal
ter M. Robertson.
Third Armored-Name of COM
mander not available.
Seventh Armored-Maj Gen. Rob-
ert w. Hasbrouck.
Eighth Infantry-Brig. Gen. Bry-'
ant Moore.
Ninth Infantry-Maj. Gen. Louis
A. Craig.
Sixty-ninth Infantry-Maj. Gen.
Emil F. Reinhardt.
Seventy-eighth Infantry - Maj.
Gen. Edwin P. Parker.
Eighty-second Airborne - Mai.
Gen. James M. Gavin.
Ninty-ninth Infantry-Maj. Gen.
Walter Lauer.
Hundred and Fourth Infantry
Maj. Gen. Terry Allen.
Hundred and Sixth Infantry
Maj. Gen. Donald A. Stroh.
Twenty eighth Infantry - Maj.
Gen. Norman D. Gotta.