15th Army (Wehrmacht)
The 15th Army (German: 15. Armee) was a field army of the German army in World War II. History
The 15th Army was activated in occupied France on 15 January 1941 with General Curt Haase in command. It was tasked with occupation and defensive duties in the Pas de Calais area. The Allies landed further west, in Operation Overlord, during June 1944. Afterwards, the 15th Army was withdrawn to the Netherlands, where it fought the Allies during Operation Market Garden in September 1944. It suffered defeat against the First Canadian Army in the Battle of the Scheldt during which the Army Headquarters at Dordrecht was subject to a mass attack by Hawker Typhoons of the Second Tactical Air Force on 24 October 1944. Two generals and 70 other staff officers were killed in the attack. During October 1944 the 15th Army continued to resist against the Canadian First Army and British Second Army as they pushed west from the Nijmegen/Eindhoven salient in Operation Pheasant. The British Second Army cleared the 15th Army from the Roer Triangle during Operation Blackcock, pushing it back over the Rur and Wurm rivers. It was involved in the Battle of Hurtgen Forest before finally surrendering along the Ruhr river in 1945. Today, the former HQ of the 15th Army, in Tourcoing, which is just north of Lille in France, is a museum: . Sept. 1944 Order of Battle
 
LXVII Corps, General der Infanterie Otto Sponheimer
64th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Knut Eberding - trapped and destroyed in Breskens Pocket
70th Static Division - Generalleutnant Wilhelm Daser - occupied South Beveland and Walcheren on the Scheldt 
346th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Erich Diestel
711th Static Division - Generalleutnant Josef Reichert
719th Coastal Division - Generalleutnant Karl Sievers - Transferred to 1st Fallschirmarmee September 4. LXXXVIII Corps, General der Infanterie Hans-Wolfgang Reinhard
59th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Walter Poppe
85th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Kurt Chill - later transferred to LXVII Korps
245th Infantry Division - Oberst Gerhard Kegler - later transferred to LXVII Korps
256th Infantry Division - Destroyed in Operation Bagration on Eastern Front, reconstituted Sept/Oct 1944 in Holland
712th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Friedrich-Wilhelm Neumann

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Military units and formations established in 1941
Military units and formations disestablished in 1945