Not to be confused with. Gamescom Status Active Genre Venue Location(s), Coordinates Country Inaugurated 19 August 2009; 8 years ago ( 2009-08-19) Most recent 22 August 2017; 3 months ago ( 2017-08-22) Attendance over 350,000 (2017) Organized by Bundesverband Interaktive Unterhaltungssoftware Website Gamescom (stylized as gamescom) is a for a released held annually at the in,,. It is organised by the BIU ( Bundesverband Interaktive Unterhaltungssoftware, English: Federal Association of Interactive Entertainment Software). It developed upcoming such as by to show off their upcoming games and game-related hardware. Gamescom is the world's 2nd largest gaming event behind, (measured by exhibition space and number of visitors) with 345,000 visitors, more than 6,000 journalists and 700 exhibitors from 88 countries attending the show in its sixth year. Entrance during Gamescom 2017 in Cologne Gamescom 2009 was held from 19 August to 23 August.

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245,000 people attended that year's visit. Visitors at gamescom 2009 Wednesday, 18 August: • • Thursday, 19 August: • • • Notable announcements [ ] Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced the, a smaller and lighter model of the console and a release date of 1 September 2009. Firmware 3.0 for the PlayStation 3 was also announced, adding new features to the. Sony announced that the European Video Store would launch in November 2009. Sony also announced that the would get smaller games (under 100mb) in the form of 'minis' and that comics would also be available to download in December 2009. A 'free game' registration promotion was announced for the. Microsoft Game Studios announced, along with a release date of 2010.

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Retro exhibition at gamescom 2010 Gamescom 2010 was held from 18 August to 22 August. 254,000 people attended that year's visit. Demo booth at gamescom 2011 Gamescom 2011 was held from 17 August to 21 August.

275,000 people attended that year's visit. Demo booth at gamescom 2012 Gamescom 2012 was held from 15 August to 19 August. 275,000 people attended that year's visit. South Entrance during gamescom 2015 Gamescom 2015 was held from 5 August to 9 August. 345,000 people attended that year's visit. South Entrance during gamescom 2017 Gamescom 2017 was held from 22–26 August. Opened the event, which marked the first time in history that a Gamescom was opened by a sitting Chancellor.

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United States Army North shoulder sleeve insignia Active 4 January 1943 – 2 October 1945 11 June 1946 – present Country of America Branch Type Army Service Component Command Size Part of (later renamed Allied forces in Italy and then ) Garrison/HQ, Motto(s) 'Strength of the Nation!' Engagements Commanders Current commander Notable commanders IV Insignia Distinctive unit insignia Flag The United States Army North is a formation of the Service Component Command of. As the joint force land component command, it is responsible for homeland defense and defense support of civil authorities. It is garrisoned at,. From early January 1943, when it was first created during, under the command of, until 2004, it was previously designated as the United States Fifth Army. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] World War II [ ] The United States Fifth Army was one of the principal formations of the in the, and was the first American ever to be activated outside of the. It was officially activated on 5 January 1943 at, and made responsible for the defence of and Morocco.

It was also given the responsibility for planning the American part of the, and therefore was not involved in the (codenamed ), where it was instead assigned the role of training combat troops destined for Sicily. The United States Fifth Army was initially commanded by, who would lead the Fifth Army for nearly two years, and was to experience some of the toughest fighting of, where it was engaged on the, which was, in many ways, often more reminiscent of the of the in.

Writing to Lieutenant General (American deputy to, commander) in late March 1944, Clark explained the difficulties of the fighting in Italy so far, which could be said of the whole campaign. They were, he claimed, ' Terrain, weather, carefully prepared defensive positions in the mountains, determined and well-trained enemy troops, grossly inadequate means at our disposal while on the offensive, with approximately equal forces to the defender.' The Fifth Army first saw action during the (Operation Avalanche), the assault landings at, part of the, in September 1943. Due to the comparatively low numbers of American troops available in the Mediterranean Theater it was made up of one American and one British corps.

They were the, under and the, under. At Salerno, VI Corps landed on the right flank, and X Corps on the left flank. Progress was initially slow, due in part to a lack of initiative by Dawley, the VI Corps commander, and due also to heavier than expected German resistance. However, heavy naval and air bombardment, along with a parachute drop by elements of the, had saved the forces from any danger of being driven back into the sea, combined with the approach of the, under (the Eighth Army had landed further south in, six days before Avalanche), the began to retreat. On 20 September, by which time the Fifth and Eighth Armies had linked up, Major General Dawley, VI Corps commander, was relieved of his command by Clark. Dawley was temporarily made deputy army commander, and was soon replaced in command of VI Corps by Major General. Pictured here in 1942 as a, was destined to command the Fifth Army throughout most of its existence.

Progress was then good for a couple of weeks and the Fifth Army crossed the and the until the Germans turned, stood and fought. They had established a position on the (also known as the Gustav Line), which included the formidable defensive positions at in the Liri Valley and. By this point, Fifth Army had been reinforced by a second American corps,, commanded by Major General. By the end of November Clark's Fifth Army had almost doubled in size, with the addition of French General 's, from 130,247 men to 243,827. With the failure of the first operations to capture Monte Cassino, an attempt was made to exploit the preponderance in seapower before the coming robbed the Mediterranean of the naval forces necessary for an to seize. VI Corps, with its experience of amphibious landings at Salerno, was chosen for the assault and withdrawn from the line, replaced by the French Expeditionary Corps. They made a second attempt to capture Monte Cassino in conjunction with the amphibious assault by VI Corps, which again failed.

VI Corps, unopposed, on 22 January 1944 in, and suffered many of the same problems as had been seen at Salerno. A perceived lack of initiative on the part of the commander, Major General Lucas, combined with worries about the Germans catching VI Corps off balance if it advanced too far inland resulted in the being bottled up. The Germans launched a series of attacks and counterattacks, with both sides sustaining heavy losses, and nearly breached the last beachhead defences before again being driven off by heavy naval and air support.

The fault, however, 'was not due to Lucas's incompetence; it was due instead to wishful thinking, faulty operational planning, and the 's ability to respond forcefully and aggressively.' After the failure of Shingle, a large reorganisation took place.

Previously the had been the rough dividing line between Fifth and Eighth Armies. However, the dividing line was shifted westwards, to allow the concentration of both armies on the western side of Italy for maximum firepower to break through to Rome. Was left on the Adriatic coast to pin down any German units there. Fifth Army was relieved of responsibility for Cassino and the final phases of that battle saw, and finally thrown against the fortress. Fifth Army also lost McCreery's British X Corps at this time, since it was felt that having exclusively American-organised units under Fifth Army and British-organised units under Eighth Army would ease logistics.

The breakthrough was achieved during the spring of 1944. Coordinated assaults by all the, except V Corps, which was confined to a holding action, broke through.

II Corps attacked along the coast, the French Expeditionary Corps, in a classic demonstration of, broke through on the right flank of Fifth Army, and VI Corps, now commanded by Major General, broke out of the Anzio beachhead. By early summer, Allied forces were well on their way to capturing Rome. At this point, one of the more controversial incidents in the history of Fifth Army occurred. The strategic conception of, commanding the (later redesigned ), was that the forces of VI Corps, coming out of Anzio, would trap the retreating German forces, and leave them to be annihilated by the advancing Fifth and Eighth Armies. However, in contravention of orders, Clark diverted units of VI Corps towards Rome, leaving a small blocking force to attempt to stop the Germans. It failed to do so, and the German forces were able to escape and reestablish a coherent line to the north of Rome.

Clark claimed that there were significant German threats which necessitated the diversion, but many believe that he was primarily glory-seeking by being the first to liberate Rome. Two days after Rome fell, on 4 June 1944, was launched.

The strategic conception of Overlord called for a supporting operation to be mounted by invading southern France. In order to do so, forces would have to be withdrawn from the Allied Armies in Italy.

In the end, VI Corps was withdrawn, forming the nucleus of the field forces of the for the invasion of the,. The French Expeditionary Corps was also withdrawn, to allow its men to be used to for the, a follow-up formation for Dragoon. In slightly less than two months, the strength of the Fifth Army dropped from 248,989 down to 153,323.

However, the 25,000-strong, under, as well as other divisions had arrived to align with (which had arrived in June) under Major General, so two corps were maintained within Fifth Army. In the second half of 1944, the Allied forces fighting on the Italian Front within the U.S. Fifth Army and British Eighth Army resembled more a multi-national force being constituted by: Americans (including segregated African/and/Japanese-Americans), British, French, members of French and British colonies (New Zealanders, Canadians, Indians, Gurkhas, Black Africans, Moroccans, Algerians, Jews and Arabs from the, South Africans, ), as well as Brazilians and exiled forces from Poland, Greece, former Czechoslovakia and anti-fascist Italians. The Germans reestablished their line across Italy at the level of and.

The Allied forces spent another winter, after fierce fighting in the summer and autumn in front of the, frustrated at their lack of ability to break through. This time Fifth Army, with under command, led by Lieutenant-General (whose relationship with Clark was apparently very stormy) was straddling the Apennines, with many of its units occupying high, exposed positions which were miserable to garrison. That winter also saw a significant change of command.

Lieutenant General Clark moved to command 15th Army Group (previously styled the Allied Armies in Italy), and Lieutenant General Lucian K. Truscott was appointed to command Fifth Army in his place. Truscott would command the Army from 16 December 1944 until the war's end.

Another change came in January 1945 when XIII Corps reverted to control of British Eighth Army, which had also seen many changes in composition and command, and was now commanded by Lieutenant-General Richard L. In the of the Italian campaign, launched in April 1945, against the German, the Eighth Army initiated the main offensive on the Adriatic coast, and then the Fifth Army also broke through the German defenses around Bologna. The German units, in the main, were pinned against the and destroyed, or at the very least deprived of their transport and heavy weapons, which effectively made many of them useless.

II Corps units raced through Milan towards the French frontier and the great port of. IV Corps pushed due north through Verona, Vicenza and as far as Bolzano and to the Brenner Pass, where they linked up with elements of the U.S. Seventh Army, under Lieutenant General. Its role in Italy cost Fifth Army dearly. It suffered 109,642 casualties in 602 days of combat, of which 19,475 were killed in action. The Fifth Army headquarters returned to the United States in September 1945.

Fifth Army was deactivated on 2 October 1945 at, Massachusetts. In the informal athletic competitions held between units of the European and North African theaters, the Fifth Army was among the most successful, winning titles in baseball, boxing, swimming and football during the 1944 season. The football championship was gained after a victory over in the on January 1, 1945. Order of Battle August 1944 [ ] (Part of ) • United States Fifth Army – ( ) • – ( ) • – (Major General ) • – (Major General John E.

Sloan) • – (Major General Livesay) • – (Major General ) • – ( ) • – (Major General ) • – (Major General ) • • – (Lieutenant-General ) • – (Major-General ) • – (Major-General ) • – (Major-General ) • Army Group Reserve • – (Major General V. Prichard) Post war [ ] The Army's next role was considerably less violent, and it was reactivated on 11 June 1946 at under the command of, who had commanded in the early stages of the () during before being relieved.

It was redesignated as the Fifth United States Army on 1 January 1957. Its postwar role was as a command and control headquarters for units, formally responsible for the training of many Army troops and also the ground defense of part of the continental United States. In June 1971, the Fifth Army moved to its current base at,. Redesignation in 2004 [ ] In 2004, Fifth Army transferred its Reserve preparation obligations to, and became responsible for homeland defense and Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA) as United States Army North, the Army Service Component Command of United States Northern Command., a subordinate command, is designated as the (DoD) command element for Department of Defense assistance to the overall federal response to a state governments request for assistance in the event of a catastrophic chemical, biological, nuclear or high yield explosive emergency. The command also has a subordinate Contingency Command Post (CCP), known as Task Force-51, which is responsible for responding to all hazards incidents that require DOD assistance. TF-51 can be employed as an all-hazards task force or a Joint Task Force (JTF) with joint augmentation.

Structure and Organization of the Fifth Army [ ] Command Group [ ] • Commanding General: • Deputy Commanding General-Operations: Richard Kim • Deputy to the Commanding General: Mr Robert Naething • Deputy Commanding General-Reserve Affairs: John Hashem • Command Sergeant Major: Ronald Orosz See also [ ] • • • References [ ]. US Army North (Fifth Army).

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