Operation Perch order of battle facts for kids
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.
Contents
British Order of Battle
21st Army Group
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief: General Sir Bernard Montgomery
Chief of the General Staff: Freddie de Guingand
Second Army
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief: Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey
I Corps
Lieutenant-General John Crocker
- 51st (Highland) Infantry Division - Major-General Bullen-Smith
- 4th Armoured Brigade
XXX Corps
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
I SS Panzer Corps
SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich
- Panzer-Lehr-Division
- 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend
- 21st Panzer Division
- Heavy SS Panzer Battalion 101
XLVII Panzer Corps
- 2nd Panzer Division
LXXXIV Korps
- 352nd Infantry Division
- 716th Static Infantry Division
See also
- List of orders of battle
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