The LXXX Army Corps was created on 27 May 1942 in the Poitiers sector in the west of occupied France.
[3] From its headquarters in Poitiers, the LXXX Army Corps defended a coastal sector of the Bay of Biscay around La Rochelle.
When the Allied forces invaded France, the LXXX Army Corps consisted of the 158th and 708th Infantry Divisions.
[1] Starting on 16 December 1944, the German Ardennes Offensive began just north of the positions of the LXXX Army Corps.
[8] Most of the German gains further northwest were undone by the Allied counterattack by 17 January 1945, and the situation in the sector of the LXXX Army Corps had been largely unchanged.