The corps was used under the Services of Supply, American Expeditionary Forces, to supervise the training areas used by divisions that had just taken part in the Meuse-Argonne offensive.

The corps headquarters was activated on 18 July 1922 at the Maverick Building, San Antonio, Texas, with Regular Army and Organized Reserve personnel.

[1] Commanded by Major General Troy H. Middleton, VIII Corps was made operational in Normandy on 15 June 1944, and took up defensive positions west of Carentan on the Cotentin Peninsula as part of the U.S. First Army.

Attacking in early July, the corps pushed through bocage country, taking La Haye-du-Puits and the Mont Castre forest.

After closing on the Ay and Sèves Rivers, VIII Corps joined the allied breakout from Normandy (Operation Cobra) on 26 July 1944.

After an involved battle lasting almost six weeks and characterized by urban combat and reduction of fortifications, VIII Corps liberated Brest on 19 September 1944.

Reorganizing after the operations in Brittany, VIII Corps moved east to join the rest of the allied forces along the border of Germany.

Faced with overwhelming odds, the northern units of the corps, the U.S. 14th Cavalry Group and the U.S. 106th Infantry Division were pushed back or encircled.

Further south, however, other units of the corps conducted a fighting withdrawal that successfully delayed the Germans long enough for the allies to rush reinforcements to the Ardennes.

Against stiff German resistance, VIII Corps assaulted across the Rhine River at Boppard and pushed eastward into central Germany.

In the first two weeks of April 1945, VIII Corps cleared the Thuringian Forest and crossed the Gera, Saale, White Elster, and Mulde rivers in swift succession.

The photo book Ragnarök (about the end of World War II and the US Army) by Anna Rosmus, 464 pp, with bilingual captions, published by Dorfmeister in Tittling, Germany, 2010, contains multiple images.