Army Groups

Egon W. Fleck and Edward A. Tenenbaum, Buchenwald A Preliminary Report, U.S. Army, 12th Army Group, 24 April 1945. National Archives, Record Group 331, SHAEF, G-5, 17.11, Jacket 10, Box 151 (8929/163-8929/180), quoted according to M. Weber, op. cit. (note 2), p. 293f. 

Egon W. Fleck and Edward A. Tenenbaum, Buchenwald A Preliminary Report, U.S. Army, 12th Army Group, 24 April 1945... 

Dickinson quickly summarized the work of the morning He and Art would transfer the S-IO in the hood to the army s container when it arrived. John and I were to do charcoal work on the newly arrived samples. John should begin to set up now, but Dickinson said I should come with him, since a member of the army team wanted to talk with me. The army group was there already and would deliver their container for the S-10. After the army group leaves, Dickinson and Art would close down Room 121, making safe all hazardous features, but leaving the apparatus ready for ftuther work if the army should need some more S-10. 

Malcolm Dole had gone from house to house the previous week to find places that would rent rooms to the NDRC group. I was assigned a room in the sherifTs house, and I moved in the day after we arrived at Bushnell. We had our meals at the local restaurant, except we got in line and ate army chow during army field tests. The army group had set up tents in a flat area just south of Bushnell, where the soldiers slept and ate. Oflficers lived in rented rooms, apartments, or houses in town. 

Arthur Pardee and I were graduate smdents together at Caltech in the 1940 s, we worked with an army group that shot off poison-gas bombs in the swamps of Florida in 1943—45, and we were room mates at Caltech for about a year after the end of the war. I have followed his career with interest and have been much pleased by the glowing reports I have heard about his work during the years. 

TNA,WO32/21200, Main HQ 21 Army Group, German Griinring 3 Shell , 16 April 1945. In this context, the term charging refers to the active content inside a chemical weapon, i.e. payload , specifically to the newly discovered nerve agents. 

TNA, WO32/21200, Maj Gen BrunskiU (DSWV) to Headquarters, 21 Army Group, 16 April 1945. 

TNA,WO32/2i200,Wansbrough-Jones (DSWV) to 21 Army Group, 29 April... 

TNA, WO32/21200, SJ. Notley to CS Porton, Press Reporters Visit to Raubkammer, 20 July 1945 War Office (Brunskill) to 21 Army Group (Brig T CW), 23 July 1945. 

Nofthem Group of Armies (21 Army Group) (British)... 

First Army, whose chemical section was headed by Col. Joseph D. Goughian, was to direct all American operations on the Continent in the beachhead period. FUSAG co-ordinated all ground planning, and a successor army group headquarters, as yet unannounced, was to take over control of First Army and Third Army when the "secret Third became operational. Third Army chemical officer was Col. Edward C. Wallington. ... 

Division and corps chemical officers, like their seniors in army and army group, emphasized intelligence activities. Protecting captured munitions from souvenir hunters was one of the problems in this field as was securing transportation to take samples back for analysis. Corps chemical officers usually called upon the army chemical officer for EEIST assistance in such cases. 

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