The corps headquarters was activated on 17 February 1922 at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, with Regular Army and Organized Reserve personnel.

The corps headquarters was relocated in late 1924 to Indianapolis, Indiana, where most of the Reserve personnel assigned to the unit were located.

Corps soldiers then broke out from the beachhead, liberated Paris and Sedan, Ardennes, and raced to the German border.

Seventh Army absorbed the two main Occupation Duty forces then in Germany, namely the 1st Infantry Division and the United States Constabulary.

Occupation Zone of Germany (which included the Fulda Gap), and the VII Corps was assigned to the southern area of the U.S.

This shifting action likely coincided with the same time frame as the Summer and Fall conversion of all Seventh Army units to the ROAD organization.

The corps reached out to the armed forces of eastern Europe with numerous initiatives to foster closer ties and better understanding.

[citation needed] In December 1995, V Corps deployed 1st Armored Division and elements of six separate brigades for the Implementation Force (IFOR).

In sixteen days of fighting, V Corps advanced more than 540 miles straight-line distance from Kuwait to Baghdad, decisively defeated the Iraqi Armed Forces, and toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein.

[citation needed] On 15 June 2003, the corps formed Combined Joint Task Force 7, based in Baghdad, and continued military operations to pacify the remainder of Iraq, rebuild the country, and create democratic institutions.

During its second year-long deployment, which ended on 14 December 2006, V Corps continued to lead coalition forces and made great strides battling a widespread insurgency, and conducting a massive rebuilding effort.

[citation needed] From 2012 to 2013, V Corps served in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, providing command and control of all U.S. ground forces stationed there.

[10] United States Army Chief of Staff, General James McConville stated: The activation of an additional Corps headquarters provides the needed level of command and control focused on synchronizing U.S. Army, allied, and partner nation tactical formations operating in Europe.

McConville announced that V Corps forward headquarters would be established in Poland after the next fiscal year started on 1 October 2020.

[16][15][17] The forward headquarters will "conduct operational planning, mission command and oversight of the rotational forces in Europe", and work alongside allies and partners to build readiness and enhance interoperability.

[18] (In May 2021, MG Matthew Van Wagenen was appointed as DCG-Manoeuvre to be based in Poznan, Poland,[19] but who presently serves as a DCG for the Army component of SHAPE.)

The headquarters is also tasked to "provide a more robust presence in Europe and enable the Corps to synchronize current contingency operations, support the ongoing mission to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank and coordinate multinational exercises across the continent."

[20] At the 29 June 2022 NATO summit in Madrid US President Joe Biden announced that a permanent military base would be established in Poland that would serve as the new headquarters of V Corps and "strengthen the US-NATO interoperability across the entire eastern flank," in further response to the Russian campaign in Ukraine.

[23] The symposium included briefings on training, technical interoperability, operational development, scenario-based practical exercises, and intelligence assessments.