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Operation Perch order of battle

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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

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 Erskine
  • 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division - Major-General Evelyn Barker
  • 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division - Major-General Douglas Graham
  • 8th Armoured Brigade

    • 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

    • References

    Operation Perch order of battle Wikipedia
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