5 Facts About Army Corps

1. The US Army Corps continued a slow and steady process of post-war drawdown and demobilization on its own, and on 28 March 1950, the corps was formally inactivated in Japan, and its command consolidated with other units.

2. The Australian Army Corps has a system of coloured lanyards, which each identify a soldier as part of a specific Corps.

3. In early 1945, when I Army Corps was assigned the task of re-taking Borneo, II Corps took over in New Guinea.

4. New Orleans evolved into a Army Corps-built leveed fortress of canals, floodwalls, and dikes.

5. On 9 January 1945, I Army Corps successfully landed on the coast of the Lingayen Gulf in Northern Luzon with the mission of establishing a base for future operations to the north and of denying the enemy northern access to the South China Sea.