Operation Perch order of battle
This is the order of battle for the Operation Perch, a World War II operation between British and German forces in Normandy, France between June 6 and June 19, 1944.
British Order of Battle
[edit]21st Army Group
[edit]General Officer Commanding-in-Chief: General Sir Bernard Montgomery[1]
Chief of the General Staff: Freddie de Guingand
Second Army
[edit]General Officer Commanding-in-Chief: Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey[1]
I Corps
[edit]Lieutenant-General John Crocker
- 51st (Highland) Infantry Division - Major-General Bullen-Smith
- 4th Armoured Brigade
XXX Corps
[edit]Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall
- 7th Armoured Division - Major-General George Erskine
- 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division - Major-General Evelyn Barker
- 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division - Major-General Douglas Graham
- 8th Armoured Brigade
German order of battle
[edit]I SS Panzer Corps
[edit]SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich
- Panzer-Lehr-Division
- 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend
- 21st Panzer Division
- Heavy SS Panzer Battalion 101
III Flak Corps
[edit]XLVII Panzer Corps
[edit]LXXXIV Korps
[edit]See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- Footnotes
- Citations
References
[edit]- Ellis, Major L.F.; Allen R.N., Captain G. R. G.; Warhurst, Lieutenant-Colonel A.E. & Robb, Air Chief-Marshal Sir James (2004) [1st. pub. HMSO 1962]. Butler, J.R.M (ed.). Victory in the West, Volume I: The Battle of Normandy. History of the Second World War United Kingdom Military Series. Naval & Military Press Ltd. ISBN 1-84574-058-0.
- Forty, George (2004). Villers Bocage. Battle Zone Normandy. Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-3012-8.
- Taylor, Daniel (1999). Villers-Bocage Through the Lens. After the Battle. ISBN 1-870067-07-X.
- Wilmot, Chester; Christopher Daniel McDevitt (1997) [1952]. The Struggle For Europe. Wordsworth Editions Ltd. ISBN 1-85326-677-9.