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General Courtney Hicks Hodges (January 5, 1887 – January 16, 1966) was a decorated senior officer in the United States Army who commanded First U.S. Army in the Western European Campaign of World War II. Hodges was a notable "mustang" officer, rising from private to general. Born in Perry, Georgia, he began studies at the United States ...
Feb 5, 2021 · Generals Miles Dempsey, Courtney Hodges, Bernard Montgomery, William Simpson and Harry Crerar, Dec. 29, 1944 (Imperial War Museum) While Montgomery, the hero of Alamein, certainly was a known quantity in the U.S., American news outlets nonetheless rushed into print quick-turn profiles of the man who was now commanding some U.S. troops.
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Oct 28, 2010 · Bradley moved upstairs to command an all-US 12th Army Group; General Courtney Hodges took over 1st Army, and a new army came into existence to his right, the 3rd, under General George Patton. The established narrative of the campaign at this point is one of “pursuit.”. Patton driving deep–heading simultaneously west into Brittany and east ...
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Oct 3, 2022 · Lieutenant General Courtney Hodges’s First U.S. Army, to which the 106th Infantry Division was now attached, had the broadest sector to cover—from Aachen to the southern border of Luxembourg, a distance of 120 miles. To the north was the Ninth U.S. Army (Simpson) while to the south was the Third (Patton).
Suddenly and incredibly, the Allies were over the Rhine. "Hot dog, Courtney!" Bradley responded when Hodges told him the news "This will bust him wide open." Within the hour, Hodges was pushing every man and vehicle he could across the bridge, forming a powerful bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Rhine.
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Dec 8, 2019 · First Army, a force consisting of six divisions, 250,000 men and commanded by General Courtney Hodges. Hodges was one of those World War II generals known as ‘Eisenhower’s Lieutenants,’ military figures like Mark Clark, Omar Bradley and George Patton, who rose to command the American Army in Europe in World War II.
General Courtney Hodges rose through the ranks to command a U.S. field army in World War II. Hodges’ unit, the 13th Infantry Regiment, was rotated back to the United States. There he was transferred to the 6th Infantry Regiment at El Paso, Texas, and applied for the Army’s Aviation Section of the Signal Corps.
