Editing V Corps (United States) (section)

===Cold War===
[[File:Corps sectors in NATO's Central Region.jpg|thumb|V Corps Cold War NATO assignment]]
[[File:V & VII Corps Garrison Footprint.001.tiff|thumb|V Corps Garrison Footprint in the 1980s]]

In March 1947, [[United States European Command]] directed that its combat forces were to convert to "[[Occupation of Germany|Occupation]] duties." On 1 December 1950, due to concern of a Soviet threat to Western Europe during the Korean War, [[Seventh United States Army|Seventh Army]] was activated as a field army in Europe. Seventh Army absorbed the two main Occupation Duty forces then in Germany, namely the [[1st Infantry Division (United States)|1st Infantry Division]] and the [[United States Constabulary]].

By middle 1948 limited combat training had been restored within the European Command.

In December, 1950 President Truman declared a National Emergency due to the Korean War, and four divisions were dispatched to reinforce U.S. forces in Europe, including the National Guard's 28th and 43rd Infantry Divisions. In May 1951 the [[4th Infantry Division (United States)|4th Infantry Division]] arrived in [[United States Army Europe]] (USAREUR) in Germany, and on 3 August 1951, V&nbsp;Corps was reactivated and assigned to the Seventh Army in USAREUR. In July the [[2nd Armored Division (United States)|2d Armored Division]] arrived in Germany, and on 25 August 1951 the 4th Infantry Division (HQ: Frankfurt) and 2d Armored Division (HQ: Bad Kreuznach) were assigned as V&nbsp;Corps divisions.

The Constabulary was inactivated upon the arrival of the four U.S. division augmentation forces to Germany. V&nbsp;Corps was assigned to the northern area of the U.S. Occupation Zone of Germany (which included the [[Fulda Gap]]), and the VII Corps was assigned to the southern area of the U.S. Zone (one of the National Guard divisions (the [[43rd Infantry Division (United States)|43rd]]) was stationed in the Munich area, and the other (the [[28th Infantry Division (United States)|28th]]) was between Munich and Stuttgart). Several years later the newly forming West German Army displaced the GDP positions of some of the U.S. units stationed in the far southern area of West Germany. As a consequence, the U.S. units' GDP positions were moved further north, as was the U.S. VII Corps' wartime southern boundary line (even though the U.S. units remained in their original kasernes). This shifting action likely coincided with the same time frame as the Summer and Fall conversion of all Seventh Army units to the ROAD organization.

Although, as referenced above, in 1951 the 1st Infantry Division was assigned to the newly activated [[VII Corps (United States)|VII Corps]], the significance of the V Corps assigned [[Fulda Gap]] and Meiningen Gap (AKA Grabfeld Gap) defense influenced not only the reassignment of the Wuerzburg-headquartered 1st Infantry Division to V&nbsp;Corps on 2 February 1952, but also the 1 October 1953 assignment of the newly formed [[19th Armor Group]], headquartered at Frankfurt, to V&nbsp;Corps.

As of June 1954, the main unit assignments to V&nbsp;Corps were 1st Infantry Division, 4th Infantry Division, 2d Armored Division, and 19th Armor Group (19th AG was the size of a large brigade, with 3 tank battalions and one mech. infantry battalion stationed from Mannheim to Wildflecken). The first U.S. armored division to be stationed east of the Rhine River in the [[Cold War]], namely V&nbsp;Corps' 3d Armored Division, arrived in May/June 1956. (The 3d Armored Div. replaced the 4th Infantry Div.; later, the 2d Armored Div. was replaced by the Bad Kreuznach arriving 8th Infantry Div.)  The 19th Armor Group (HQ Frankfurt) was replaced by the [[4th Armor Group]] on 1 July 1955 (the 4th AG was approximately the size of the replaced 19th AG); the 4th Armor Group was deactivated in the 1963 ROAD conversion. In 1955 the 1st Infantry Division gyroscoped to CONUS, and was replaced in V&nbsp;Corps by the 10th Infantry Division from CONUS. In 1958 the 3rd Infantry Division gyroscoped from CONUS and the 10th Infantry Division gyroscoped to CONUS.

Due to the 1963 ROAD reorganization in USAREUR, V&nbsp;Corps ultimately lost two assigned units:
(1) the 4th Armor Group was inactivated;
(2) the 3rd Infantry Division, with its headquarters at Wuerzburg, was reassigned to VII Corps.<ref>Note: some of the dates come from Oliver J. Frederiksen's 1953 book, "The American Military Occupation of Germany 1945–1953" (Historical Division, Headquarters, United States Army, Europe).</ref>

After the [[Cold War]] collapse of the [[Warsaw Pact]], V&nbsp;Corps soldiers deployed both units and individuals to [[Saudi Arabia]] for the [[Gulf War]]; and to other operations in [[Kuwait]], northern [[Iraq]], [[Croatia]], [[Somalia]], [[Republic of Macedonia]], [[Rwanda]], and [[Zaire]].

==== Organization 1989 ====
{{See also|CENTAG wartime structure in 1989#V US Corps}}

[[File:V US Corps 1989.png|thumb|right|620px|Organisation of V Corps in 1989 (click to enlarge)]]

At the end of the Cold War in 1989 V Corps consisted of the following units:

* [[File:V Corps.svg|27px]] V Corps, [[Frankfurt]], [[West Germany]]<ref name="C&S">{{cite web |last1=Army - The Magazine of Landpower - October 1989 |title=Command and Staff |year=1989 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yC4wG9JVdR0C |publisher=Association of the US Army |access-date=26 June 2020}}</ref>
** [[File:3rd US Armored Division SSI.svg|27px]] [[3rd Armored Division (United States)|3rd Armored Division]], Frankfurt
** [[File:4th Infantry Division SSI.svg|27px]] [[4th Infantry Division (United States)|4th Infantry Division (Mechanized)]], [[Fort Carson]], Colorado ([[Exercise Reforger|Operation Reforger]] unit)
** [[File:8th Infantry Division patch.svg|21px]] [[8th Infantry Division (United States)|8th Infantry Division (Mechanized)]], [[Bad Kreuznach]]
** [[File:V Corps.svg|27px]] [[V Corps Artillery (United States)|V Corps Artillery]], Frankfurt
*** [[File:41st Field Artillery Brigade SSI.svg|23px]] [[41st Field Artillery Brigade (United States)|41st Field Artillery Brigade]], [[Babenhausen, Hesse|Babenhausen]]
*** [[File:42FABdeSSI.png|21px]] 42nd Field Artillery Brigade, [[Giessen]]
** [[File:11th Armored Cavalry Regiment CSIB.svg|23px]] [[11th Armored Cavalry Regiment]], [[Fulda]]
** [[File:194th Armored Brigade CSIB.svg|23px]] [[194th Armored Brigade (United States)|194th Armored Brigade]], [[Fort Knox]], Kentucky (Operation Reforger unit)
** [[File:197thInfantryBrigade.svg|21px]] [[197th Infantry Brigade (United States)|197th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized)]], [[Fort Benning]], Georgia (Operation Reforger unit)
** [[File:12AvnBdeSSI.png|21px]] [[12th Combat Aviation Brigade|12th Aviation Brigade]], [[Wiesbaden]]
** [[File:130thEngineerBrigadePatch.svg|21px]] [[130th Engineer Brigade (United States)|130th Engineer Brigade]], [[Hanau]]
** [[File:18th Military Police Brigade SSI.svg|23px]] [[18th Military Police Brigade (United States)|18th Military Police Brigade]], Frankfurt
** [[File:US Army - 22nd Signal Brigade Shoulder Sleeve Insignia.jpg|23px]] [[22nd Signal Brigade (United States)|22nd Signal Brigade (Corps)]], Frankfurt
** [[File:US Army - 205th Military Intelligence Brigade Shoulder Sleeve Insignia.jpg|23px]] [[205th Military Intelligence Brigade (United States)|205th Military Intelligence Brigade]], Frankfurt
** [[File:3rd Sustainment Command CSIB.svg|25px]] [[3rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary)|3rd Corps Support Command]], Wiesbaden