U.S. Army Stateside Duty:
Corporal, 7th Corps area-service command, signals, Technical School:
The 7th Service Command “Headquartered” in Omaha, Nebraska, they were responsible for the states of Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and Wyoming. The shoulder sleeve insignia was approved on 18 Jul 1941 with a Green Background. But on 18 Sep 1941 to change the description. On 14 Oct 1941, they changed the insignia to dark blue. I’m not clear how the Signals-tech training comes in, but may have been a class thought at one of the 7th Corps-Area/ Command, posts.
2nd Army Infantry Khaki Shirt:
The Second Army Served on the battlefields of France, Catching the end of World War I. With the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). They fought in a couple of the final major battles the US. was involved in there. Then they would be stationed in the occupied areas of Belgium and Luxembourg. They would remain there until the end of March 1919, then they were to demobilize, which happened in France on 15 April 1919.
The U.S. Army reactivated the Second Army back in October 1933, Their HQ was in Chicago, Illinois, and they would be one of the units on call, and ready to go when called in a national emergency. They would be assigned a training position during World War II. It's said they trained up some million men and got them all ready to fight.
In December 1940, the 2nd Army moved their HQ to Memphis, Tennessee, and they were designated to train the new Army, they would conduct training operations in 24 states. The Red and White insignia with a big 2 in the center, are the colors of the flag of the Army, the khaki backing was to blend into the Field Jacket and dress uniform, and there was a light khaki tan often seen on the tan shirt as well, they changed the background when the Class A came to be - getting used in the late 50's to the darker green.
Note: Reshoot Pictures of this uniform, it has no collar brass!
“NEW” Sergeant First Class, 2nd Army, Training-Instructor:
2nd Army Infantry M41 Jacket:
In June 1944, the Army reconstituted the World War I Second Army, 'AEF', and consolidated it with the existing Second Army, in order to perpetuate lineage and honors of the World War I unit. with the latter. This soldier has had prior battle service with the 41st Infantry Division, possibly from the First War.
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.
“NEW” 6th Army, Stateside, home from the Pacific.
The “6th Army” had been activated in January of 1943, they were given the code-name of the Alamo Force and the control of the majority of Army Forces that would be involved in the upcoming Operation Cartwheel. Cart-wheel’s objective was to neutralize the Japanese bases at Rabaul and New Guinea. It would be the name of the game in the Island Hopping Campaigns in the Pacific, it was about taking various small islands with airfields on them, and a dock, that could support the land elements with air cover as they move across the Pacific on the way to Japan itself.
By September 1944, the Sixth Army had been relieved by the Eight Army, from operations in New Guinea. On 20 October 1944. Next, the Sixth Army who controlled X Coprs and the XXIV Corps, invaded Leyte in the Philipines and by December, Leyte was secured, then again the Eighth Army releaved them of that duty. Then came Mindoro, and the Lengayen Gulf, ending up merging with elements of the Eighth Army advancing around Manila. They would clear out the north of Luzon and fight the Japanese Shimbu Group in the Sierra Madrest, till the end of the War.
Sixth Army was preparing to advance on Japan’s Main Islands when the end came and they went on to do Occupational Duty there only returning in 1946, where they made the Presidio of San Francisco. After the war, the Sixth Army took responsibility for training different elements of the Armiesy forces from part of the continental United States. It was eventually inactivated in June 1995 due to force reductions.
