8th Corps, Eighth Corps, or VIII Corps may refer to: *

VIII Corps (Grande Armée) The VIII Corps of the ''Grande Armée'' was a French military unit that existed during the Napoleonic Wars. Emperor Napoleon, Napoleon I formed it in 1805 by borrowing divisions from other corps and assigned it to Marshal of the Empire, Marshal É ...

, a unit of the Imperial French army during the Napoleonic Wars *

VIII Army Corps (German Confederation) The VIII Army Corps () was a mixed corps of the army of the German Confederation (the ''Bundesheer''), which was made up of contingents from Württemberg, Baden and Hesse. Until 1830 In 1839, the tiny contingents of the 18 small and very small state ...

VIII Corps (German Empire) The VIII Army Corps / VIII AK () was a corps level command of the Prussian and then the Imperial German Armies from the 19th Century to World War I. Originating on 21 June 1815 as the General Command for the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine and e ...

, a unit of the Imperial German Army prior to and during World War I *

VIII Reserve Corps (German Empire) The VIII Reserve Corps () was a corps level command of the German Army in World War I. Formation VIII Reserve Corps was formed on the outbreak of the war in August 1914 as part of the mobilisation of the Army. It was initially commanded by Gen ...

, a unit of the Imperial German Army during World War I *

8th Air Corps (Germany) __NOTOC__ 8th Air Corps (''VIII. Fliegerkorps'') was formed 19 July 1939 in Oppeln as ''Fliegerführer z.b.V.'' ("for special purposes"). It was renamed to the 8th Air Corps on 10 November 1939. The Corps was also known as ''Luftwaffenkommando Sc ...

VIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) VIII Army Corps (VIII. Armeekorps) was a corps in the German Army during World War II. It was destroyed during the Battle of Stalingrad and reformed in mid-1943. Commanders * Cavalry General (''General der Kavallerie'') Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kle ...

, Germany *

VIII Corps (Ottoman Empire) The VIII Corps of the Ottoman Empire ( Turkish: ''8 nci Kolordu'' ''or'' ''Sekizinci Kolordu'') was one of the corps of the Ottoman Army. It was formed in the early 20th century as part of the Ottoman military reforms. Formation Order of Battl ...

8th Army Corps (Russian Empire) The 8th Army Corps was an Army corps in the Imperial Russian Army. Composition * 14th Infantry Division * 15th Infantry Division * 8th Cavalry Division Part of * 8th Army: 1914-1916 * 11th Army: 1916 * 9th Army: 1916 * 4th Army: 1916-1917 Command ...

8th Air Defence Corps The 25th Red Banner Air Defence Division (; Military Unit Number 54912) is a division of the Russian Aerospace Forces, part of the 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army. Headquartered at Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the division controls S-400 surface-t ...

, Soviet Union and Russia * 8th Cavalry Corps (Soviet Union) *

8th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) The 8th Mechanized Corps, was a Mechanized Corps (Soviet), mechanized corps of the Soviet Ground Forces. It was destroyed in 1941 in the beginning of Operation Barbarossa. The formation of the 8th Mechanized Corps began on June 4, 1940. The comman ...

8th Estonian Rifle Corps The 8th Estonian Rifle Corps (2nd formation) (, ) was a formation in the Red Army, created on 6 November 1942, during World War II. An 8th Rifle Corps (but not made up of Estonian personnel) had been previously formed, taking part in the Sovi ...

a unit of the Soviet Army *

8th Army Corps (Ukraine) The 8th Army Corps () was one of three army corps of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The Corps was headquartered in Zhytomyr Zhytomyr ( ; see #Names, below for other names) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the Capital ...

VIII Corps (United Kingdom) VIII Corps was a British Army corps formation that existed during the First and Second World Wars. In the latter, it took part in the Normandy Campaign in 1944, where it was involved in Operation Epsom and Operation Goodwood. It would later p ...

VIII Corps (United States) The U.S. VIII Corps was a army corps, corps of the United States Army that saw service during various times over a fifty-year period during the 20th century. The VIII Corps was organized 26–29 November 1918 in the Regular Army (United States) ...

* VIII Corps (Union Army), a unit in the American Civil War *

Eighth Army Corps (Spanish–American War) The Eighth Army Corps was formed on June 21, 1898, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, in order to provide a ground contingent to exploit Commodore George Dewey's success in defeating the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay on May 1 ...

8th Corps (Yugoslav Partisans) The 8th Dalmatian Shock Corps () was a corps of the Yugoslav Partisans formed on 7 October 1943. It was formed from the 9th, 19th, 20th, and 26th Dalmatian divisions, and was named after the region of Dalmatia. Upon creation it had 13,049 soldiers ...

* VIII Corps, part of Ground Operations Command, South Korea

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