D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

Index

Abbaye Blanche

Abbaye d’Ardennes

Abetz, Otto

Abwehr (German military intelligence)

Adair, Maj Gen A.

Airborne assault

aerial support

American (map)

British(map)

casualties

deception measures

embarkation

heavy equipment landings

Alençon

Allied propaganda

Allied troops

British girlfriends

with Frenchwomen

relations with Frenchsee also Looting

AMGOT (Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories)

Amiens

Amis, Kingsley

Andrew, Lt Tom

Angers

Argentan

Arletty (Léonie Bathiat)

Arnim, Lt Dankwart Graf v.

Arromanche

Asnelles

Atlantic Wall

Aulock, GenMaj Hubertus v.

Aunay-sur-Odon

Authie

Avranches

Ay, river

Barenton

Barneville

Barton, Maj Gen Raymond O.

Bavent, Bois de

Bayerlein, GenLt Fritz

Bayeux

de Gaulle visits

liberation of

Bayeux tapestry

BBC

Beauvoir, Simone de

Beck, Sdt Eberhard

Beck, GenOb Ludwig

Bedell Smith, Maj Gen Walter

Below, ObLt Nicolaus v.

Bénouville

Bény-sur-Mer

Berghof (Berchtesgaden)

Berlichingen, Oberst Freiherr v.

Bernay

Bidault, Georges

Billotte, Col Pierre

Bingham, Maj S. V.

Birks, Col Hammond D.

Bittrich, Gruppenführer

Bletchley Park; see also Ultra intercepts

Blumentritt, Gen der Inf. Günther

Bocage

artillery observation

battle of the

descriptions

fighting in

lessons of fighting in implemented

Boegner, Pastor Marc

Boineburg-Lengsfeld, GenLt Hans Freiherr v.

Boissieu, Cpte Alain de

Bombing operations

the airborne assault

Caen

Cherbourg

the crossing

Omaha beach

Operation Cobra

Operation Goodwood

Operation Totalize

Operation Tractable

Saint-Lô, 6 June

sealing off invasion area (Operation Transportation)

Villers-Bocage

Bon Sauveur, convent of the

Bordeaux

Botsford, Lt Gardner

Boulogne

Bradley, Gen Omar N.

and Montgomery, Gen Sir Bernard L.

and Patton, Gen George S.

Brécey

Brest

Brest peninsula

Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse

Bretteville-sur-Laize

Bréville

British Army

combat exhaustion

conservatism

desertions

infantry shortages

lack of mechanization

manpower crisis

reluctance to help other arms

replacement system

tactics

tank design

tank-infantry cooperation

UK defence force

war-weariness

British Army, 21st Army Group

British Army, Armies

Second Army

Eighth Army

British Army, Corps

I Corps

VIII Corps

XII Corps

XXX Corps

British Army, Divisions

Guards Armd

3rd Inf

6th Airborne

7th Armd

11th Armd

15th Inf (Scottish)

43rd Inf (Wessex)

50th Inf (Northumberland)

51st Inf (Highland)

British Army, Brigades

1st Special Service Bde

3rd Para Bde

4th Armd Bde

5th Para Bde

Guardsh Tank Bde

8th Bde

8th Armd Bde

9th Bde

22nd Armd Bde

29th Armd Bde

33rd Armd Bde

56th Bde

69th Bde

129th Bde

130th Bde

131st Armd Bde

185th Bde

SAS Bde

Special Air Service

British Army, Armd Regiments

1st Northants Yeomanry

2nd Welsh Guards

3rd Royal Tank Rgt

3rd Scots Guards

4th Coldstream

4th County of London Yeomanry

4th/7th Dragoon Guards

5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards

11th Hussars

13th/18th Hussars

22nd Dragoons

23rd Hussars

44th Royal Tank Rgt

East Riding Yeomanry

Fife and Forfar Yeomanry

Household Cavalry Rgt

Inns of Court

Royal Scots Greys

Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry

Staffordshire Yeomanry

Westminster Dragoons

British Army, Infantry Battalions

1/4th King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

1/5th Queens

1st Dorsets

1st Grenadiers

1st Hampshires

1st King’s Own Scottish Borderers

1st Norfolks

1st Rifle Brigade

1st South Lancashire

1st Suffolk

1st Tyneside Scottish

2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

2nd Devons

2nd East Yorks

2nd Essex

2nd Glasgow Highlanders

2nd King’s Shropshire Light Infantry

2nd Middlesex

2nd Ox and Bucks Light Infantry

2nd South Wales Borderers

2nd Ulster Rifles

2nd Warwicks

4 Commando

4th Dorsets

4th Somerset Light Infantry

5th Black Watch

5th Coldstream

5th Dorsets

5th Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

5th East Yorks

5th Wiltshires

6 Commando

6th Duke of Wellington’s Rgt

6th Durham Light Infantry

6th Green Howards

7th Norfolks

8th Durham Light Infantry

8th Para

9th Durham Light Infantry

9th Para

12th Para

13th Para

Royal Engineers

Brittany

Brooke, FM Sir Alan (later Viscount Alanbrooke)

Brotheridge, Lt Den

Browning, Lt Gen Sir Frederick (‘Boy’)

Bruce, Col David

Bucknall, Lt Gen Gerard

Buhle, Gen d. Inf Walter

Bull, Maj Gen Harold R.

Bülowius, Gen d. Flieger

Bushey Park (SHAEF headquarters)

‘C’ see Menzies, Sir Stewart

Cabourg

Caen

attack, 7 June

battle for

bombardment of

bombing ofJune

casualties

cholera threat

Civil Affairs entry into

civilians in

de Gaulle visits

envelopment attempt

failure to seize on first day

final shell falls on

German attack, 10 June, cancelled

and the landings

rebuilding

stalemate

victory parade

Caen Canal

Cagny

Calais

Calvados

Cambes

Canadian Army

advance into Caen

battles for Carpiquet airfield

landing Juno

First Canadian Army

II Canadian Corps

Canadian Army, Divisions

2nd Inf

3rd Inf

4th Armd

Canadian Army, Brigades

7th Bde

8th Bde

9th Bde

Canadian Army, Armd Regiments

1st Hussars

British Columbia

Fort Garry Horse

Grenadier Guards of Canada

Sherbrooke Fusiliers

Canadian Army, Infantry Battalions

1st Para

Algonquins

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada

Black Watch of Canada

Calgary Highlanders

Canadian Scottish Rgt

North Nova Scotia Highlanders

North Shore Rgt

Queen’s Own Rifles

Régiment de la Chaudière

Regina Rifles

Royal Winnipeg Rifles

Canham, Col Charles D.

Canisy

Capa, Robert

Carentan

Carpiquet airfield

Casualties

airborne assault

Army Group B total

battle of the bocage

Caen

Cherbourg

combat fatigue and shock

evacuation

Falaise Pocket

first aid treatment

French civilians

Juno beach

officer

Omaha beach

Operation Cobra

Operation Epsom

Operation Goodwood

Operation Totalize

Operation Tractable

Paris

Saint-Lô

Sword beach

totals

totals toJune

treatment of

Utah beach

Villers-Bocage

Caumont

Cerisy, Forêt de

Cerisy-la-Salle

Chaban-Delmas, Jacques

Chambois

Channel Islands

Chartres

Chef du Pont

Cherbourg

advance on

bombing ofJune

capture of(map)

casualties

coastal batteries

conditions afterwards

supplies through

Cherbourg peninsula see Cotentin peninsula

Cheux

Chevallerie, Gen d. Inf Kurt v..

Choltitz, GenLt Dietrich v.

Christopherson, Lt Col Stanley

Churchill, Winston S.

Cintheaux

Civil Affairs

Clark, Gen Mark

Coastal defences

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Collaborators

head-shaving

treatment of

Colleville-sur-Mer

Collins, Maj Gen J. Lawton

Colville, John (‘Jock’)

Combat fatigue and shock

Combined Operations Beach Reconnaissance and Assault Pilotage Parties (COPP)

Comité Français de Libération Nationale

Commander-in-Chief West (OB West)

Communist propaganda

Communists see French Communist Party

Coningham, Air Marshal Sir Arthur

Conseil National de la Résistance

Conspiracy theories, Nazi

Cook, Maj Gen Gilbert

Cooper, Sir Alfred Duff

Corlett, Lt Gen Charles

Cota, Brig Gen Norman D.

Cotentin peninsula (map)

Coudehard, heights of

Coulet, François

Courseulles

Coutances

Crépon

Crerar, Lt Gen Henry

Cristot

Culin, Sgt Curtis G.

Dannhauser, GenLt Paul

Daure, Marianne

Daure, Pierre

DD Sherman tanks

De Gaulle, Gen Charles

arrival in Britain

and Eisenhower

first visit to Normandy

and Leclerc

and the liberation of Paris

relationship with Churchill

and the Resistance

and Roosevelt

victory procession in Paris

visit to Caen

De Guingand, Maj Gen Sir Francis

De Wavrin, André see Passy, Col

Deception operations see Plan Fortitude

Défense Passive

Dempsey, Lt Gen Sir Miles

Dieppe raid

Dietrich, Obergruppenführer Sepp

Dio, Col Louis

Dives, river

Doane, Lt Col Leander L.

Dollmann, GenOb Friedrich

Dönitz, Großadmiral Karl

Double Cross Committee

Douglas, Capt Keith

Douve, river

Douvres-la-Délivrande

Dronne, Cpte Raymond

Dunkirk

Eastern front

Eberbach, Gen. PzTr Hans

Ecouché

Ecouves, Fôret d’

Eddy, Maj Gen Manton S.

Eden, Anthony

Ehrenburg, Ilya

Eisenhower, Gen Dwight D. (‘Ike’)

approves Falaise-Argentan gap plan

and Caen

and de Gaulle

and Montgomery

and Operation Dragoon

and Operation Epsom

and Patton

visits airborne embarkation

Elbeuf

Elfeldt, GenLt Otto

English Channel, crossing

Eon, Col

Erskine, Maj Gen George (‘Bobby’)

Escoville

Esquay

Evrecy

Exercise Tiger

Falaise

Falaise-Argentan gap

Falaise Pocket (map)

Falley, GenLt Wilhelm

Farmbacher, Gen d. Art Wilhelm

Fegelein, Gruppenführer Hermann

Female snipers

Feuchtinger, GenMaj Edgar

FFI (Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur)

Flers

Fontaine l’Abbé

Fontainebleau

Fontenay-le-Marmion

Fontenay-le-Pesnel

Fortitude see Plan Fortitude

Fouquer, Rev Père Roger

Fox, Lt Dennis

French Army

2ème Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes (4th SAS)

2ème Régiment de Marche du Tchad

2nd Armoured Division (2ème DB)

landing Utah

transfer to Britain

3ème Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes

12ème Chasseurs d’Afrique

501ème Régiment de Chars

Spahis marocains

French civilians

and the airborne assault

attitudes to Allied soldiers

casualties

and the landings

looting

at Mortain

under the occupation

revenge on collaboration

French Communist Party; see also FTP

in Paris uprising

in Resistance

French Navy (Forces Navales Françaises Libres)

La Combattante

Georges Leygues

Montcalm

Friendly bombing

Friendly fire

Fritsch, GenOb Werner Freiherr v.

Fromm, GenOb Friedrich

FTP (Franc Tireurs et Partisans)

Fabien battalion

Funck, Gen d. PzTr Hans Freiherr v.

Furgon, Mont

Gaffey, Maj Gen Hugh G.

Gale, Maj Gen Richard

Garby-Czerniawski, Roman

Gavin, Brig Gen James M.

Gavray

Gavrus

George VI, King

Gerhardt, Maj Gen Charles H.

German Air Force see Luftwaffe

German Army

discipline

losses in Normandy

propaganda and morale

strength

tactics and effectiveness

tensions with the Waffen-SS

training

see also Luftwaffe (for paratroop units); Waffen-SS

German Army, Army Groups

Army Group B

Army Group Centre

German Army, Armies

First Army

Panzer Group Eberbach

Panzer Group West (later Fifth Panzer Army)

Seventh Army

Fifteenth Army

German Army, Corps

XXV Corps

XLVII Panzer Corps

LXXXI Corps

LXXXIV Corps

German Army, Divisions

2nd Panzer

9th Panzer

11th Panzer

21st Panzer

84th Infanterie

85th Infanterie

89th Infanterie

91st Luftlande

116th Panzer

256th Infanterie

266th Infanterie

271st Infanterie

275th Infanterie

276th Infanterie

277th Infanterie

319th Infanterie

326th Infanterie

346th Infanterie

348th Infanterie

352nd Infanterie

353rd Infanterie

708th Infanterie

709th Infanterie

711th Infanterie

716th Infanterie

Panzer Lehr Div

attack on American sector

losses against British

in Operation Cobra

German Army, Brigades, Regiments etc.

7th Mortar Bde

24th Pz-Rgt

30th Mobile Bde

100th Pz Bn

304th Pzgr-Rgt

503rd Heavy Pz Bn

726th Grenadier-Rgt

901st Pzgr-Rgt

902nd Pzgr-Rgt

916th Grenadier-Rgt

1057th Grenadier-Rgt

cossacks

Osttruppen

German massacres in France

German Navy see Kriegsmarine

German occupation

Gerow, Gen Leonard T.

Gersdorff, GenMaj Rudolf Freiherr v.

Gestapo

Geyr v. Schweppenburg, Gen d. PzTr Freiherr Leo

Goebbels, Josef

Goerdler, Dr Carl

Gold beach (map)

Göring, Reichsmarschall Hermann

Gouffern, Fôret de

Gouvernement Provisoire de la République Française

Grandcamp

Granville

‘Great Storm’, the (19-22 June)

Grimbosq, Fôret de

Grimesnil

Ground-air cooperation

Grow, Maj Gen Robert C.

Gruchy

Guderian, GenOb Heinz

Guillebon, Cdt Jacques de

Günsche, Hauptsturmführer Otto

Hall, Admiral John L.

Hardaway, Lt Col Eads J.

Harris, ACM Sir Arthur (‘Bomber’)

Hartmetz, Sdt Rainer

Hase, GenOb Paul v.

Hausser, Oberstgruppenführer Paul

Hébécrevon

Heintz, André

Hellmich, GenLt Heinz

Hemingway, Ernest

Hermanville

Heydte, Maj Freiherr v. d.

Hickey, Brig Gen Doyle O.

Hill, Brig James

Hill

Hill

Hill

Hill

Hill

Hill

Hill

Hill

Hill

Hill

Hill

Hill

Hill

Hill

Hill

Hill

Hill (Mortain)

‘Hillman’ strongpoint

Himmler, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich

Hinde, Brig Robert (‘Loony’)

Hitler, Adolf

Avranches counter-attack

and Cherbourg

‘fortress’ orders

invasion expectations

July assassination plot

last visit to France

learns of landings

Margival conference

and the Mortain counterattack

and Operation Cobra

and Operation Dragoon

and Operation Lüttich

orders Alençon attack

and Paris

replaces Geyr

replaces Kluge

response to landings

and threat of British Second Army

trust in Waffen-SS

Hiwis (Hilfswillige)

Hobart, Maj Gen Percy

Hodges, Gen Courtney H.

Holbrook, Bradley

Hollis, CSM Stanley

Horrocks, Lt Gen Brian

Howard, Maj John

Howie, Maj Thomas D.

Huebner, Maj Gen Clarence R

Isigny

Ismay, Lt Gen Sir Hastings (‘Pug’)

Jedburgh teams

Jobourg

Jodl, GenOb Alfred

Johnson, Col Howard R. (‘Jump’)

Jort

Juin, Gen Alphonse

July plot

possible negotiations with Allies

Jünger, Ernst

Juno beach (map)

Jurques

Juvigny-le-Tertre

Keitel, GFM Wilhelm

Keller, Maj Gen Rod

Kennedy, Ludovic

Kenner, Maj Gen Albert W.

Kieffer, Cmdt Philippe

Killing of prisoners

King, Admiral

Kitching, Maj Gen George

Kluge, GFM Günther-Hans v.

and July plot

argument with Rommel

becomes OB West

and the Falaise-Argentan gap

and the Mortain counterattack

and Operation Cobra

and Operation Goodwood

and Operation Totalize

orders withdrawl to River Orne

relaunches Operation Lüttich

replaced by Model

suicide

Kluge, ObLt v.

Koenig, Gen Pierre

Kraiss, GenMaj Dietrich

Kraminov, Col

Kriegsmarine

Naval Group West

La Fière

La Haye-du-Puits

La Hogue

La Rivière

La Rochelle

Laizon, river

Lammerding, Brigadeführer Heinz

Langlade, Col Paul de

Laval

Laval, Pierre

Le Fresne Camilly

Le Havre

Le Mans

Le Mesnil-Adelée

Le Mesnil-Tôve

Leahy, Admiral William D.

Lebisey

Leclerc, Gen Philippe (comte de Hautecloque)

Lee, Lt Gen John C. H.

Leigh-Mallory, ACM Sir Trafford

Les Ingoufs

Lessay

Liddell Hart, Basil

Lion-sur-Mer

Lisieux

Livarot

Lockett, Lt Col James W.

Longjumeau

Longues, battery

Looting

Lorient

Luck, ObLt Hans v.

Luckett, Col James S.

Luftwaffe

anger against in German army

on D-Day

Third Air Fleet

II Air Corps

II Paratroop Corps

III Flak Corps

Luftwaffe, Divisions

2nd Paratroop

3rd Paratroop

16th Luftwaffe Feld

Luftwaffe, Regiments

5th Paratroop

6th Paratroop

9th Paratroop

15th Paratroop

Luizet, Charles

Lüttwitz, GenLt Freiherr v.

McLain, Maj Gen Raymond

MacMahon, Col Bernard B.

MacMillan, Maj Gen G. H. A.

McNair, Lt Gen Leslie J.

Maczek, Maj Gen Stanislaw

Mahlmann, GenLt Paul

Mahlmann defence line

Maltot

Marcks, Gen d. Art Erich

Margival conference

Marigny

Marks, Leo

Marseilles

Marshall, Brig Gen S. L. A.

Marshall, Gen George C.

Marshall, Sam

Martinville ridge

Mayenne

Mayenne, river

May-sur-Orne

Meindl, Gen d. Fallschirmtruppe Eugen

Melun

Menzies, Sir Stewart (‘C’)

Merderet, river

Mers-el-Kebir

Merville battery

Meyer, ObLt (352nd Inf-Div)

Meyer, Standartenführer Kurt (‘Panzer Meyer’)

Middleton, Maj Gen Troy H.

Midget submarines

Millin, Piper Bill

Minesweepers

Model, GFM Walter

Monnet, Jean

Montebourg

Montgomery, Gen Sir Bernard L.

on thet (Highland) Division

and Bradley

on British tank design

and the broad front strategy

and Caen

Churchill visits

and Crerar

and de Gaulle

and Dempsey

and Eisenhower

and the Falaise Pocket

and the Falaise-Argentan gap

objectives

and Operation Bluecoat

and Operation Charnwood

and Operation Cobra

and Operation Epsom

and Operation Goodwood

and Operation Totalize

and Operation Tractable

and Paris

and Patton

plan to envelop Caen

post-war claims

and precision bombing

reluctance to incur losses

and Tedder

Morgan, Lt Gen Sir Frederick

Mortain

Mortain counter-attack (map),

Moulin, Jean

Moyon

Mulberry harbours

Nantes

National Council of Resistance

Nazi propaganda

Neave, Maj Airey

Neave, Maj Julius

Nordling, Ralph

Nordling, Raoul

Normandy

war damage

Norrey

Norwegian Navy

Svenner

O’Brien, Father John

O’Connor, Lt Gen Sir Richard

Odon, river

Ogden-Smith, Sgt Bruce

OKW, Oberkommando der Wehrmacht

Omaha beach (map)

assault plan

battle for

bombardment

build-up of forces

casualties

combat demolition units

shock casualties

supplies through

Ondefontaine

Operation Anvil see Operation Dragoon

Operation Atlantic

Operation Bagration

Operation Bluecoat (map)

Operation Charnwood

Operation Cobra

bombing operations

breakout

breakthrough (map)

casualties

Operation Copperhead

Operation Cork

Operation Dragoon

arguments over

Operation Epsom (map)

Operation Foxley

Operation Glimmer

Operation Goodwood (map)

casualties

over-optimism

planning

Operation Jupiter

Operation Lüttich

Operation Neptune

Operation Overlord

Operation Spring

Operation Taxable

Operation Titanic

Operation Totalize (map)

Operation Tractable

Operation Transportation

Operation Windsor

Oppeln-Bronikowski, Oberst Hermann v.

ORA (Organisation de Résistance de l’Armée)

Oradour-sur-Glane

Orléans

Ormel, Mont

Orne, river

OSS (Office of Strategic Services)

Ostendorff, Brigadeführer Werner

Otway, Lt Col Terence

Ouistreham

Paris

andJuly plot

advance on

Allied entry into

American intention to bypass

de Gaulle’s victory procession

German forces in

German surrender

liberation of

uprising

Parodi, Alexandre

Partridge, Sgt

Passy, Col (André de Wavrin)

Patton, Gen George S.

and theArmored Division

advance

arrival in France

and Bradley

and Brittany

on civil life

command of ‘1st US Army Group’

at Dreux

and Eisenhower

and the Falaise-Argentan gap

funeral of Brig Gen Roosevelt

given command of VIII Corps

and Leclerc

logistics

and Montomery

and Operation Cobra

and Paris

Patton’s ‘Household Cavalry’

and Saint-Lô

on self-inflicted wounds

Third Army becomes operational

Pays d’Auge

Pemsel, GenMaj Max

Percy

Périers

Périers ridge

Perrier ridge

Peterson, Pte Harold E.

Piaf, Edith

Pickert, GenLt Wolfgang

Pinçon, Mont

Plan Fortitude

Plan Ironside

Podewils, Clemens Graf

Pogue, Forrest C.

Pointe du Hoc

Pointe et Raz de la Percée

Polish Army

1st Armd Div

10th Cavalry Bde

10th Dragoons

10th Mounted Rifles

12th Dragoons

24th Lancers

Polish Navy

ORP Blyskewica

ORP Dragon

ORP Krakowiak

ORP Piorun

ORP Slazak

Pontaubault bridge

Pont-Hébert

Pont-l’Evêque

Popov, Dusko

Portal, ACM Sir Charles

Port-en-Bessin

Prisoners of war

the airborne assault

Allied illegal killings

battle of the bocage

Cherbourg

Falaise Pocket

the Kommandobefehl

Omaha beach

Operation Cobra

Operation Goodwood

Operation Totalize

rations

Sword beach

treatment of

war crimes accusations by

Proctor, Cpl.

Pujol, Juan (‘Garbo’)

Putz, Cmdt

Pyle, Ernie

Quesada, Lt Gen Elwood R. (‘Pete’)

Rambouillet

Ramcke, Gen d. Fallschirmtruppe Hermann

Ramsay, Admiral Sir Bertram

Ranville

Rauray

Red Army

Reichert, GenLt Joseph

Reichsarbeitsdienst, the

Remer, Maj Otto

Rennes

Resistance (French)

in Brittany

cynicism about

and de Gaulle

German reprisals

and Operation Cobra

and Operation Dragoon

Patton on

strength

treatment of POWs

Vercors

Résistance Fer

Ribbentrop, Obersturmführer Rudolf v.

Robehomme

Roberts, Maj Gen ‘Pip’

Rol-Tanguy, Col Henri

Romagny

Rome

Rommel, GFM Erwin

and the coastal defences

headquarters

and Kluge

learns of landings

and the Luftwaffe

Margival conference

meeting with Geyr

and Operation Goodwood

orders Carentan counterattack

plan to reinforce the Channel

possible negotiations with Allies

return to Normandy

row with Geyr

and Saint-Lô

supply lines

tactics

and threat of British Second Army

Roncey

Roosevelt, President Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Brig Gen Teddy Jr

Rose, Brig Gen Maurice

Rouen

Royal Air Force

and airfields in Normandy

and the Mortain counterattack

Royal Air Force, Groups

19 Group

83 Group

Royal Air Force, Wings

121 Wing

123 Wing

Royal Air Force, Squadrons

224 Squadron

329 Squadron

346 Guyenne Squadron

347 Tunisie Squadron

617 Squadron

Royal Canadian Navy

HMCS Algonquin

HMCS Sioux

Royal Navy

Royal Navy, Battleships and Monitors

HMS Erebus

HMS Nelson

HMS Ramillies

HMS Roberts

HMS Rodney

HMS Warspite

Royal Navy, Cruisers

HMS Ajax

HMS Arethusa

HMS Argonaut

HMS Belfast

HMS Black Prince

HMS Danae

HMS Diadem

HMS Enterprise

HMS Glasgow

Royal Navy, Destroyers

HMS Eglinton

HMS Kelvin

HMS Swift

HMS Talybont

Royal Navy, Command and Transport Ships

HMS Empire Broadsword

HMS Empire Javelin

HMS Largs

HMS Prince Baudouin

HMS Prince Henry

HMS Princess Ingrid

Royal Navy, Royal Marines

41 RM Commando

47 RM Commando

48 RM Commando

Rudder, Lt Col James E.

Rundstedt, GFM Gerd v.

Saint-Aignan

Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer

Saint-Barthélemy

Saint-Côme-du-Mont

Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Saint-Lambert-sur-Dives

Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer

Saint-Lô

attack on (map)

battle for begins, 7 July

bombing of

casualties

fall of

‘the Major of’

Saint-Malo

Saint-Nazaire

Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives

Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte

Saint-Sever, Fôret de

Saint-Sever-Calvados

Sainte-Marie-du-Mont

Sainte-Mère-Eglise

Sainteny

Schimpf, GenLt Richard

Schlieben, GenLt Karl-Wilhelm Graf v.

Schmundt, GenLt Rudolf

Schwerin, GenLt Gerhard Graf v.

Scott, Wg Cdr Desmond

Scott-Bowden, Cpt

Sée, river

Sées

Seine, river

German retreat across

Self-inflicted wounds

Sélune, river

Seulles, river

Sèves, river

SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force)

Shanley, Lt Col Thomas J. B.

Shaving heads

collaborators

Shaw, Irwin

Sicherheitsdienst (SS Security Service); see also Gestapo

Sicily, invasion of

Simonds, Lt Gen Guy

SIS (Secret Intelligence Service)

Skinner, Padre Leslie

Slapton Sands

Smith, Lt Sandy

Smuts, FM Jan

Snipers

Snyder, Lt Col Max

SOE (Special Operations Executive)

Sourdeval

Southwick House

Souvenir hunting

Spaatz, Gen Carl A. (‘Tooey’)

Speidel, GenLt Hans

SS

Einsatzgruppe B

Stagg, Gp Cpt Dr James

Stalin, Josef.

Stalingrad

Stauffenberg, Oberst Claus Graf Schenk.

Stülpnagel, Gen. Inf Carl-Heinrich v.

Sword beach(map)

Talley, Col Benjamin B.

Tangermann, ObLt

Tank troops, fear of fire

Taute, river

Taylor, Col George A.

Taylor, Maj Gen Maxwell D.

Teague, Lt Col

Tedder, ACM Sir Arthur

Teheran conference

Tessel

Tessy-sur-Vire

Thomas, Maj Gen G. I.

Thury-Harcourt

Tilly-la-Campagne

Tilly-sur-Seulles

Touques, river

Tracy-Bocage

Tresckow, GenMaj Henning v.

Troarn

Trun

Tulle

Turqueville

U-boats

Ultra intercepts

Unger, Oberst v.

US Army

Central Base Section

combat exhaustion

discipline

Fourth of July celebrations

Graves Registration

losses in Normandy

mechanization.

replacement system

sacking of officers

supply trains

training

US Army, Armies

12th US Army Group

First US Army (map)

Third US Army

US Army, Corps

V Corps

VII Corps

VIII Corps

XIX Corps

XX Corps

US Army, Divisions

1st Inf

2nd Armd

2nd Inf

3rd Armd

4th Armd

4th Inf

5th Armd

5th Inf

6th Armd

7th Armd

8th Inf

9th Inf

28th Inf

29th Inf

30th Inf

35th Inf

79th Inf

80th Inf

82nd Airborne

83rd Inf

90th Inf

101st Airborne

US Army, Brigades and Regiments

6th Engineer Special Bde

8th Inf

12th Inf

16th Inf

18th Inf

22nd Inf

23rd Inf

36th Armd Inf

39th Inf

115th Inf

116th Inf

117th Inf

119th Inf

120th Inf

137th Inf

175th Inf

314th Inf

315th Inf

325th Glider Inf Rgt

358th Inf

501st Parachute Inf Rgt

502nd Parachute Inf Rgt

505th Parachute Inf Rgt

508th Parachute Inf Rgt

US Army, Rangers

2nd Battalion

5th Battalion

US Army, Counter Intelligence Corps

USAAF

IX Tactical Air Command

Eighth Air Force

Ninth Air Force

bombing accuracy

fighter-bomber attacks on German troops

and Operation Cobra bombing

USAAF, Groups

363rd Fighter Group

388th Bomber Group

405th Fighter Group

US Coast Guard

US Navy

US Navy, Battleships

USS Arkansas

USS Nevada

USS Texas

US Navy, Cruisers

USS Augusta

USS Quincy

USS Tuscaloosa

US Navy, Destroyers

USS Corry

USS Harding

USS Satterlee

US Navy, Command and Transport Ships

USS Ancon

USS Bayfield

USS Samuel Chase

USS Shubrick

Utah beach(map)

V-1 flying bomb (‘Diver’)

‘anti-Diver’ operations

Valognes

Vannes

Varaville

Vaucelles

Vercors, FFI battle

Verrières ridge

Vichy regime (Etat français)

Viénot, Pierre

Vierville (Cotentin)

Vierville-sur-Mer (Omaha)

Villebaudon

Villedieu-les-Poêles

Villers-Bocage (map)

Vimoutiers

Vire, town

Vire, river and valley

Volksdeutsche

Waffen-SS

advance to the front

discipline

and Hitler

indoctrination

morale

rivalry with German Army

Waffen-SS, Corps

I SS Panzer

II SS Panzer

Waffen-SS, Divisions

1st SS Pz-Div Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler

2nd SS Pz-Div Das Reich

9th SS Pz-Div Hohenstaufen

10th SS Pz-Div Frundsberg

12th SS Pz-Div Hitler Jugend

17th SS Pzgr-Div Götz von Berlichingen

Waffen-SS, Regiments etc.

1st SS Pzgr-Rgt

2nd SS Pz-Rgt

Deutschland-Pzgr-Rgt

Führer-Pzgr-Rgt

19th SS Pzgr-Rgt

20th SS Pzgr-Rgt

21st SS Pzgr-Rgt

25th SS Pzgr-Rgt

26th SS Pzgr-Rgt

37th SS Pzgr-Rgt

38th SS Pzgr-Rgt

101st SS Heavy Pz Bn

102nd SS Heavy Pz Bn

Wagner, Gen Eduard

War damage

Warlimont, Gen d. Art Walter

Warsaw uprising

Weintrob, Maj David

Weiss, Lt Robert

Westover, Lt John

Weyman, Brig Gen

Whistler, Lt Rex

Whitehead, Don

Williams, Brig E. T.

Wilmot, Chester

Witt, Brigadeführer Fritz

Wittmann, Obersturmführer Michael

Witzleben, GFM.

Wolfsschanze, Rastenburg

Wood, Maj Gen John S.

Ziegelmann, ObLt

Zimmermannn, GenLt Bodo