Occupation
The Fifteenth Army was originally intended to command occupation forces in the Rhine Province, Saarland, Palatinate (Pfalz), and part of Hesse, areas now primarily parts of the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. However, in the summer of 1945, the occupation mission in this sector was assumed in the north by the British Army and in the south by the French Army.
Subsequently, the Fifteenth U.S. Army consisted solely of a small staff quartered at Bad Nauheim in the interior of Germany. It consisted of a headquarters and special troops assigned to gather historical data on Allied operations during the war.
During the Occupation, on 2 May 1945 the Fifteenth Army received for safekeeping the Crown of St. Stephen. It was transferred for storage at Fort Knox, Kentucky and returned to the Hungarian Government 5 January 1978.
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“Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.”
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