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Order of battle for Operation Epsom

Order of battle for Operation Epsom

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This is the order of battle for Operation Epsom, a Second World War battle between British and German forces in Normandy, France between 26 June and 30 June 1944.

British Order of Battle

Second Army[1] General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey

More information Corps Troops, 21st Army Group Troops (attached to VIII Corps for Epsom) ...

German Order of Battle

Seventh Army / Panzer Group West

General Friedrich Dollmann (until 1700 hours 28 June)[37]
General der Panzertruppe (General of Armoured Troops) Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg (from 1700 hours 28 June)[38]

Army Troops

I SS Panzer Corps

SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich[42]

II SS Panzer Corps

SS-Obergruppenführer Paul Hausser (until morning of 29 June)[37]
SS-Obergruppenführer Willi Bittrich (from morning of 29 June)[42]

III Anti-Aircraft Corps

[43] General der Flakartillerie Wolfgang Pickert[51]

  • 4th Anti-Aircraft Regiment (88mm Anti-Aircraft and other guns)[43]

XLVII Panzer Corps

See also

Notes

Footnotes
  1. [N 1]
    Projector Brigade 7 was equipped with Nebelwerfers.[39]
  2. [N 2]
    Projector Brigade 7 was equipped with Nebelwerfers.[41]
  3. [N 3]
    Heavy SS Panzer Battalion 101 was equipped with Tiger Is.[43]
  4. [N 4]
    SS-Panzer Regiment 12 was equipped with a mixture of Panzer Mark IV and Mark V Panthers.[47]
  5. [N 5]
    The vanguard of the LSSAH, Kampfgruppe Frey, arrived at the front on 27 June[48] and was attached to the 12th SS Panzer.[38]
  6. [N 6]
    One battlegroup of the 21st Panzer Division, based around a tank battalion.[39] The battalion was equipped with a mixture of Panzer Mark IV's and Assault Guns.[52]
  7. [N 7]
    The Panzer-Lehr-Division was equipped with a mixture of Panzer Mark IV and Mark V Panthers.[54]
  8. [N 8]
    Battlegroup Weidinger arrived at the front on 27 June and was attached to the Panzer-Lehr-Division.[55] On 29 June the battlegroup was transferred to II SS Corps.[56]
  9. [N 9]
    The 9th SS Panzer Division was equipped with a mixture of Panzer Mark IV, Mark V Panthers and Assault Guns.[57]
  10. [N 10]
    The 10th SS Panzer Division was equipped with a mixture of Panzer Mark IV and Assault Guns.[58]
  11. [N 11]
    The 2nd Panzer Division was equipped with Mark V Panthers.[52]
Citations
  1. [1]
    Wilmot, p. 732
  2. [2]
    Clark, pp. 34–5.
  3. [3]
    Saunders, Appendix A.
  4. [4]
    Jackson, p. 30
  5. [5]
    Brayley, p. 21
  6. [6]
    Joslen, pp. 27–8.
  7. [7]
    Fortin, pp. 14 and 92
  8. [8]
    Fortin, p. 103
  9. [9]
    Joslen, pp. 153–5.
  10. [10]
    Clark, p. 36
  11. [11]
    Fortin, pp. 44
  12. [12]
    Paterson, "Artillery Regiments That Served With The 7th Armoured Division"
  13. [13]
    Fire and Fury, 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division at Hill 112, 10 July 1944, p. 9
  14. [14]
    Joslen, p. 180.
  15. [15]
    Dunphie, p. 39
  16. [16]
    Fortin, p. 15
  17. [17]
    Joslen, p. 347.
  18. [18]
    Doherty, Appendix.
  19. [19]
    Joslen, pp. 58–9.
  20. [20]
    Martin, Appendix C.
  21. [21]
    Kemsley, Chapter 5
  22. [22]
    Joslen, p.289.
  23. [23]
    Reid, p. 107
  24. [24]
    Joslen, p. 291.
  25. [25]
    Neal.
  26. [26]
    Joslen, p. 390.
  27. [27]
    Joslen, p. 204.
  28. [28]
    Fortin, p. 64
  29. [29]
    Essame, Appendix A.
  30. [30]
    Joslen, pp. 69–70.
  31. [31]
    Joslen, p 314.
  32. [32]
    Joslen, p. 315.
  33. [33]
    Joslen, p. 377.
  34. [34]
    Fortin, p. 37
  35. [35]
    Jackson, p. 40
  36. [36]
    Rosse & Hill, pp. 33–4.
  37. [37]
    Reynolds, p. 23
  38. [38]
    Clark, p. 73
  39. [39]
    Clark, p. 63
  40. [40]
    Clark, p. 97
  41. [41]
    Reynolds, p. 32
  42. [42]
    Clark, p. 27
  43. [43]
    Clark, p. 28
  44. [44]
    Forty, p. 61
  45. [45]
    Zetterling, p. 120
  46. [46]
    Zetterling, p. 133
  47. [47]
    Clark, p. 25
  48. [48]
    Clark, p. 61
  49. [49]
    Clark, p. 80
  50. [50]
    Clark, p. 24
  51. [51]
    Ford, p. 14
  52. [52]
    Clark, p. 64
  53. [53]
    Forty, p. 30
  54. [54]
    Clark, p. 26
  55. [55]
    Meyer, p. 409
  56. [56]
    Reynolds, p. 21
  57. [57]
    Clark, pp. 108–109
  58. [58]
    Clark, pp. 176 and 179

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