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Key to Map Military Units Unit Strengths XX General Military symbols General Symbols Division XXXXX X Airfield Airborne dropping zone Town River Rocks British, Canadian and French Infantry Parachute Army group Brigade Commonwealth and the Normandy Campaign Coastal defence battery Village Canal XXXX II Army movement Swamp or flooded area Armoured Artillery Army Regiment US German Radar station Road Bridge XXX I German retreat Wood 6 JUNE – 19 AUGUST 1944 Airborne Motorized infantry Corps Battalion Site of heavy bombing Railways Sandy beach

Allied Order of Battle VIII Corps (from 16 July) Independent Armoured Brigades First Canadian Army (from 23 July) 12th ARMY GROUP (from 1 August) VIII Corps (from 15 June) Armoured Divisions ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY AIR FORCE RAF Bomber Command German Order of Battle 7th Army II SS Panzer Corps LXXIV Corps LXXXVI Corps Independent Armoured Battalions Independent Artillery Brigades OBERKOMMANDO DER LUFTWAFFE (OKL) Lieutenant General Sir Richard O’Connor 4 Armoured Brigade, 8 Armoured Brigade, Lieutenant General H. D. G. Crerar Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley Major General Troy H. Middleton 2 Armoured Division (’Hell on Wheels’), Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur T. Harris Generaloberst Friedrich Dollman (to 28 June) Oberstgruppenführer (to 28 July) General der Infanterie Erich Straube General der Infanterie Hans von Obsgfelder 101 SS Heavy Tank Battalion, 102 SS Heavy 7 Werfer Brigade, 8 Werfer Brigade, 9 Werfer Brigade Commander in Chief Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) 27 Armoured Brigade, 33 Armoured Brigade, 3 Armoured Division, 4 Armoured Division, 73 Heavy Bomber Squadrons, 15 Light Oberkommando Der (OKW) Oberstgruppenführer Paul Hausser (to 20 August) Oberstgruppenführer Wilhelm Bittrich Tank Battalion, 10 Heavy Tank Battalion (later XII Corps (from 30 July) 6 Guards Tank Brigade, 31 Tank Brigade, II Canadian Corps (from 12 July – from Second 1st US Army XII Corps (from 29 July) 5 Armoured Division, 6 Armoured Division, RAF 2nd Tactical Air Force Bomber Squadrons (Approx. 1,400 aircraft) General der Panzertruppen Heinrich Eberbach (temporary to 30 August) LXXXI Corps Armoured Divisions renumbered 501–503 Heavy Tank Battalion), Luftwaffe Divisions Luftflotte 3 Supreme Commander: General Dwight D. Eisenhower Lieutenant General N. M. Richie 34 Tank Brigade British Army 23 July) Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley (to 1 August) Major General Gilbert R. Cook 7 Armoured Division, 2 French Armoured Division Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham Commander in Chief: Adolf Hitler XLVII Panzer Corps General der Panzertruppen Adolf Kuntzen 2 Panzer Division, 9 Panzer Division, 654 Heavy Anti-Tank Battalion, 668 Heavy 2 Parachust Division, 3 Parachute Division, 5 Parachute Generalfeldmarschall Hugo Sperrle Panzer Group West (to 5 August) Deputy Supreme Commander: Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder Lieutenant General G. S. Simonds Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges 73 Fighter Squadrons, 20 Medium Bomber Squadrons US 8th Air Force Chief of Staff: Generafeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel General der Panzertruppen Hans Freiherr von Funck 21 Panzer Division, 116 Panzer Division, anti-Tank Battlaion, 709 Anti-Tank Battalion Division, 16 Luftwaffe Field Division, 91 Airlanding Division 5th Panzer Army Chief of Staff: Major General Walter Bedell Smith XXX Corps Infantry Divisions XV Corps (from 2 August) Infantry Divisions 7 Army Co-operation Squardons (Approx. 1,220 aircraft) Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle Chief of Operations Staff: Generaloberst Albert Jodl LXXXIV Corps ‘Panzer Lehr’ Division Aircraft Available General der Panzertruppen Leo Freiherr Geyr Lieutenant General B. C. Bucknall 3 Divisions, 6 Airborne Division, 15 Scottish Armoured Divisions 3rd US Army Major General Wade H. Haislip 1 Division (’Big Red One’), 2 Division, 4 Division, 160 Heavy Bomber Squadrons, 45 Fighter LVIII Parachute Corps General der Artillerie Erich Marchs Infantry Divisions (30 May) von Schweppenburg (to 6 July) 21st ARMY GROUP (to 3 August) Division, 43 Wessex Division, 49 West Riding 4 Canadian Armoured Division, 1 Pollish Armoured Lieutenant General George S. Pattern Jr. 5 Division, 8 Division, 9 Division, 28 Division, US 9th Air Force Squadrons (Approximately 2,400 aircraft) OBERBEFELSHABER WEST (OB WEST) General der Falschirmtruppen Walter Kruger (to 12 June) Waffen-SS Divisions 77 Division, 84 Division, 85 Division, Day fighters 315 220 General de Panzertruppen Heinrich Ederbach General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery Lieutenant General B. G. Horrocks Division, 50 Northumberland Division, 53 Division XIX Corps (from 12 June) 29 Division, 35 Division, 79 Division, 80 Division, Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton (to 7 August) Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstadt (to 2 July) General der Artillerie Wilhelm Fahrmbacher I SS Panzer Division ‘Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler’, 89 Division, 243 Static Division, 265 Static Night fighters 90 46 (to 9 August) Welsh Division, 59 Staffordshire Division V Corps Major General Charles H. Corlett 82 Airborne Division (‘All American’), 83 Division, Major General Joyt S. Vanderberg Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge (to 18 August) II Parachute Corps (temporary to 18 June) 2 SS Panzer Division ‘Das Reich’, 9 SS Panzer 266 Static Division, 271 Division, 272 Division, Bombers 402 200 Oberstgruppenführer Joseph ‘Sepp’ Dietrich General der Falschirmtruppen Eugen Meindl Second British Army Armoured Divisions Independent Armoured Brigade Major General Leonard T. Gerow 90 Division, 101 Airborne Division (‘Screaming 65 Fighter Squadrons, 44 Medium Bomber Squadrons Generalfeldmarschall Walther Model Generalleutnant Division ‘Hohenstauffen’, 10 SS Panzer Division 275 Division, 276 Division, 277 Division, 326 Transport 64 31 Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey Guards Armoured Division, 7 Armoured Division, Independent Commando Brigades 2 Canadian Armoured Brigade XX Corps (from 2 August) Eagles’) (Approximately 2,000 aircraft) (to 28 July) ‘Frundsberg’, 12 SS Panzer Division ‘Hitler Jugend’, Static Division, 331 Division, 343 Static Division, TOTAL 891 497 I SS Panzer Corps XXV Corps 11 Armoured Division, 79 Armoured Division 1 Special Service Brigade, 4 Special Service VII Corps Major General Walton H. Walker Army Group B Generalleutnant Otto Elfeldt 17 SS Panzergrenadier Division ‘Goetz von 344 Static Division, 346 Static Division, 352 Oberstgruppenführer Joseph ‘Sepp’ Dietrich General der Artillerie Wilhelm Fahrmbacher I Corps (to First Canadian Army 23 July 1944) (Specialist Armour) Brigade Infantry Divisions Major General J. Lawton Collins Air Defence of Great Britain Generalfeldmarschall (to 17 July) Berlinchingen’ Division, 353 Division, 363 Division, 708 Static III Flak Corps (to 9 August) Lieutenant General J. T. Crocker 2 Canadian Division, 3 Canadian Division Air Marshal Sir Roderick M. Hill Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge (to 18 August) Division, 711 Static Division, 716 Static Division About 120 to 160 88mm dual-purpose guns and Oberstgruppenführer Hermann Priess 41 Fighter Squadrons (Approximately 500 aircraft) Generalfeldmarschall Walther Model 300 lighter Flak guns