1,400 aircraft)
XX
Army group
Parachute
XXXX
Airborne
Infantry Divisions
3 Divisions, 6 Airborne Division, 15 Scottish
Division, 43 Wessex Division, 49 West Riding
Division, 50 Northumberland Division, 53
Welsh Division, 59 Staffordshire Division
Unit Strengths
Military Units
Key to Map
US
Independent Armoured Brigades
4 Armoured Brigade, 8 Armoured Brigade,
27 Armoured Brigade, 33 Armoured Brigade,
6 Guards Tank Brigade, 31 Tank Brigade,
34 Tank Brigade
Nonant-le-Pin
Juvigny-le-Tertre
Sélu
ne
6 JUNE – 19 AUGUST 1944
e
Briouze
Reffuveille
Operation Overlord
and the Normandy Campaign
n
Or
Baie du Mont
Saint Michel
Pontorson
Argentan
Lüttich 7–8 August
Avranche
10 miles
German retreat
Battalion
7th Army
Generaloberst Friedrich Dollman (to 28 June)
Oberstgruppenführer Paul Hausser (to 20 August)
General der Panzertruppen Heinrich Eberbach (temporary to 30 August)
Panzer Group West (to 5 August)
5th Panzer Army
General der Panzertruppen Leo Freiherr Geyr
von Schweppenburg (to 6 July)
General de Panzertruppen Heinrich Ederbach
(to 9 August)
Oberstgruppenführer Joseph ‘Sepp’ Dietrich
I SS Panzer Corps
Oberstgruppenführer Joseph ‘Sepp’ Dietrich
(to 9 August)
Oberstgruppenführer Hermann Priess
Site of heavy bombing
II SS Panzer Corps
Oberstgruppenführer Paul Hausser (to 28 July)
Oberstgruppenführer Wilhelm Bittrich
XLVII Panzer Corps
General der Panzertruppen Hans Freiherr von Funck
LVIII Parachute Corps
General der Falschirmtruppen Walter Kruger
II Parachute Corps
General der Falschirmtruppen Eugen Meindl
XXV Corps
General der Artillerie Wilhelm Fahrmbacher
LXXIV Corps
General der Infanterie Erich Straube
LXXXVI Corps
General der Infanterie Hans von Obsgfelder
LXXXI Corps
General der Panzertruppen Adolf Kuntzen
Armoured Divisions
2 Panzer Division, 9 Panzer Division,
21 Panzer Division, 116 Panzer Division,
‘Panzer Lehr’ Division
LXXXIV Corps
General der Artillerie Erich Marchs
(to 12 June)
General der Artillerie Wilhelm Fahrmbacher
(temporary to 18 June)
Generalleutnant Dietrich von Choltitz
(to 28 July)
Generalleutnant Otto Elfeldt
Waffen-SS Divisions
I SS Panzer Division ‘Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler’,
2 SS Panzer Division ‘Das Reich’, 9 SS Panzer
Division ‘Hohenstauffen’, 10 SS Panzer Division
‘Frundsberg’, 12 SS Panzer Division ‘Hitler Jugend’,
17 SS Panzergrenadier Division ‘Goetz von
Berlinchingen’
Independent Armoured Battalions
101 SS Heavy Tank Battalion, 102 SS Heavy
Tank Battalion, 10 Heavy Tank Battalion (later
renumbered 501–503 Heavy Tank Battalion),
654 Heavy Anti-Tank Battalion, 668 Heavy
anti-Tank Battlaion, 709 Anti-Tank Battalion
Swamp or flooded area
Wood
Independent Artillery Brigades
7 Werfer Brigade, 8 Werfer Brigade, 9 Werfer Brigade
OBERKOMMANDO DER LUFTWAFFE (OKL)
Commander in Chief Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering
Luftwaffe Divisions
2 Parachust Division, 3 Parachute Division, 5 Parachute
Division, 16 Luftwaffe Field Division, 91 Airlanding Division
Luftflotte 3
Generalfeldmarschall Hugo Sperrle
Aircraft
Infantry Divisions
77 Division, 84 Division, 85 Division,
89 Division, 243 Static Division, 265 Static
266 Static Division, 271 Division, 272 Division,
275 Division, 276 Division, 277 Division, 326
Static Division, 331 Division, 343 Static Division,
344 Static Division, 346 Static Division, 352
Division, 353 Division, 363 Division, 708 Static
Division, 711 Static Division, 716 Static Division
Day fighters
Night fighters
Bombers
Transport
TOTAL
315
90
402
64
891
III Flak Corps
About 120 to 160 88mm dual-purpose guns and
300 lighter Flak guns
Available
(30 May)
220
46
200
31
497