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ARMY COMBINATION IN ITALY ( Rec. noon ) LONDON. July 5. The 15th Army Group, consisting of the famous Eighth Army and the Fifth Army, will cease to exist at midnight tonight, states Reuter's correspondent Tin’s will bring to an end the group of international forces—British, American. New Zealand, Canadian, South African. Indian, Brazilian, Polish, Yugoslav, Greek and Italian—which smashed tho Germans in Italy and forced them to surrender on May 2. General Cl'ark, in announcing the dissolution and expressing regret that tho British and other Allied troops were no longer serving under him, revealed that American personnel of the 15th Army Group are being transferred to the" United States forces in Austria.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 185, 6 July 1945, Page 5
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115END OF FAMOUS GROUP Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 185, 6 July 1945, Page 5
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