6th Army Group
The 6th Army Group was organized in 1944 in Corsica to provide operational control over the combined French and American forces participating in the invasion of southern France. The Sixth Army Group, also known as the Southern Group of Armies, was commanded by Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers. It consisted of the French First Army under General de Lattre de Tassigny and the United States Seventh Army under Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch.
Its headquarters, activated on August 1, 1944, by Allied Force Headquarters of the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, was at first responsible for completing plans for the invasion of southern France. On September 15, 1944, a month after that invasion was launched, Headquarters Sixth Army Group was made responsible to SHAEF and was give tactical control over the Allied ground and service forces in southern France. The Group's operations progressed into the area of the High Vosges, across the German frontier, and finally to Western Austria, and the Lake of Constance.
