Ninth Army

W. Voreck, T. Costain, E. Dalrymple, Advances in Explosive Train Technology, Ninth Army Science Conference, West Point, New York, 1974. 

He went alone in to see General Bradley, who at that time was in conference with [the] Ninth Army Commander within whose area Stassfurt then was. Both of them gave unqualified approval to our project, General Bradley being reported to have remarked to hell with the Russians. ... 

TNA,WOi88/8o2, p. 88, pp. ii6f. Carter 2000, pp. 58F also Evans, R. 2007. In 1941, one of Porton s Technical Officers was dispatched to India to support research at the CDRE a year later, Portons reconstituted Anti-Gas Laboratory No. I was sent to Singapore, but was diverted to India after the faU of Singapore to support the Ninth Army during the Burma campaign. 

The Ninth Army Chemical Section under Col. Harold Walmsley and the Seventh Army Chemical Section under Lt. Col. Bruce T. Humphreville operated in much the same way as the First and Third Army Chemical Sections. Again the principal interest was in nongas warfare and defensive gas warfare supply. The Ninth Army Chemical... 

First Army crossed the Roer on the right of Ninth Army. The VII Corps, on the left, crossed near Duren and advanced northeastward... 

Parc of the delay was due to the rapid current and high water. At other crossings of VII Corps, however, bridges were completed much sooner. Just a few miles down the Roer the 50th Division (Ninth Army) completed a vehicular bridge in twenty>one hours under the cover of smoke. 

The XVI Corps plans for the Rhine operation called for a 2-division crossing in the vicinity of Wallach, Mehrum, and Milchplatz. Naval craft were available for the initial assault and the engineers were ready to bridge the Rhine, a task which they anticipated would be no more difficult than that of bridging the Roer River under flooded conditions. After the crossing, the Ninth Army was to drive eastward, contain the enemy in the Ruhr pocket to the south, and maintain contact with the British Second Army on the left. 

CmlO Ninth Army) and Capt Joel B. Marangella (formerly IntellO Cml Sec Ninth Army), 14 Feb 47 (4) Ltr, CO 74th Cml Smoke Generator Co to CG Ninth Army, 13 Mar 4s, sub Rpt of Smoke Opns (s) Ltr, CG 84th Div to CG XIII Corps, 7 Apr 4s, sub Smoke Opns ( ) Ltr, ACmIO toad DIt to CmlO XIII Corps, 7 Apr 4s, sub AAR on Smoke Used on Rhine River, all in CMLHO (7) Hewitt, Work Horse of the Western front, pp. 234-38. 

Ltr, CmlO XVI Corps to CmlO Ninth Army, i Apr 45, sub Smoke Opns—Flashpoint. 

Crossing, Military Review, XXVIII (August 1949), y. (4) Ltr, CO 57th Cml Maintenance Co to CmlO Ninth Army, 29 Mar 45, sub Maintenance of M2 Smoke Generators During Opns (Rhine... 

The Ninth Army, north of First Army and still under control of 21 Army Group, crossed the Rhine in an area just north of the Ruhr Valley. The army attack was concentrated on the XVI Corps front, with another corps poised to exploit initial successes, and a third lending support by fire and demonstration. In keeping with the decision temporarily to bypass the great Ruhr industrial area, XVI Corps attacked with an exposed right flank. To prevent enemy observation from the many potential observation posts in the Ruhr Valley, Ninth Army called for a 2-mile smoke screen along its exposed right flank. 

Ltr, CmlO 29th Div to CmlO Ninth Army, 21 Oct 44, sub AAR on Portable Flame Thrower. T-17, B, Portable Flame Thrower (Tactical) 9th Army. 

Ltr, CmlO III Corp to CmlO Ninth Army, 10 Oct 44, sub Rpt of Flame Thrower Activities. Ninth Army Cml Sec Files. 

Col Claude A. Black, Chief Armored Sec Ninth Army, 20 Sep 44, Rpt on Employ of Churchill "Crocodiles at Brest, 20 Sep 44. (2) Roos to CmlO Ninth Army, 31 Dec 44, Reds Incl 2, Notes on... 

Ltr, CG Ninth Army to CG 12th Army Group, 31 Oct 44, sub Special Equip (Flame Throwing Tanks), lath Army Group Reds, 470.71—Apparatus. 

In November, 12th Army Group allotted the ijo E4-J units on hand as follows First Army, yy Third Army, 30 Ninth Army, 43. Third Army had never established a requirement for the flame-throwing tank and held its 30 4-3 flame throwers in an Army depot. ... 

Ltr, Adjutant 739th Tank Bn, Special (Mine Exploder) to CmlO Ninth Army, 22 Mar 43, sub Flame Throwers. ARBN-739-0.1 (77S3) History, 739th Tractor Bn, i Mar 43—21 Nov 43. 

Roos to CmlO Ninth Army Rpt, Mechanized Flame Thrower Activities (E4R2-JR1). CWS... 

L(r, CmlO Ninth Army to CmlO iith Army Group, 50 Apr 4 , rab Mechanized Flame Thrower Actirities (E4R2-JR1). CWS 314.7 Mechanized Flame Thrower. 

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