Editing V Corps (United States) (section)

===World War II===
After [[Nazi Germany]] declared war on the United States on 11 December 1941, the corps deployed (January 1942) the first American soldiers to the [[European Theater of Operations United States Army|European Theater of Operations, United States Army]]. That initial deployment was known as the U.S. Army Northern Ireland Force or MAGNET. On 6 June 1944, V&nbsp;Corps assaulted [[Omaha Beach]], [[Normandy]]. Corps soldiers then broke out from the beachhead, liberated [[Paris]] and [[Sedan, Ardennes]], and raced to the German border. After liberating [[Luxembourg City]], V&nbsp;Corps fought in the [[Battle of the Bulge]], captured [[Leipzig]], made first contact with the [[Red Army]] at [[Torgau]], and, south in Czechoslovakia, liberated [[Plzeň]] by May 1945.