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Christmas menu of the Headquarters Company of Second Army, Memphis, Tennessee, for 1940. The menu also includes a roster. The U.S. Army activated a new Second Army in October 1933, with headquarters at Chicago, Illinois, as one of four field armies that would help mobilize forces in event of a national emergency. In December 1940, the Army moved Second Army’s headquarters to Memphis, Tennessee, and designated it as a training army, which conducted training in 24 states. In June 1944, the Army reconstituted the World War I Second Army, AEF, and consolidated it with the existing Second Army. During World War II, Second Army trained 11 corps, 55 divisions, and 2,000 smaller units of all arms and services, composed of almost a million men, for employment in all theaters of operation.
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sc.0495.021_023.001
Date
1940
Keywords
United States. Army. Army, 2nd.
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"Second Army Headquarters Company menu and roster, Memphis, 1940" (2021). Other documents. 41.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-verticalfiles7/41
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