Overlord (Pan Military Classics) (74 page)

limited capabilities during OVERLORD
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loss of will
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lack of reconnaissance
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on D-Day
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beachhead attacks
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occasional attacks by
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night raids
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insignificance of
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non-appearance at Mortain
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Divisions

16th Field Division
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Parachute Division
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German Army

Russian front
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High Command of the Armed Forces (OKW)

prepares for invasion
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D-Day
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Army Group B

Rommel commands
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Villers-Bocage
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von Kluge replaces Rommel
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First Army

losses
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regrouped
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Seventh Army

fighting power of
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predicted build-up
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expected resistance
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fuel crisis
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commanding officers
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Hitler’s instructions hamper
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,
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sense of fatalism amongst
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absence of officers on D-Day
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slow response to invasion
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D-Day
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preparations for invasion
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build-up of troops
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loyalty to division
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tactics in Normandy
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shortage of infantry
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use of tanks
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lack of intelligence reports
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ability of
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breakdown of logistical machinery
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effective use of manpower
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weapons
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Kampfengruppen
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treatment of prisoners
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discipline
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regional formations
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effect of Allied air support on
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effect of attrition on
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collapse of morale
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effect of Hitler assassination attempt on
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retreat
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use of improvised battle groups
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skill in disengagement
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loyalty to Hitler
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losses in Normandy
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Fifteenth Army

and FORTITUDE deception
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,
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under Rommel
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losses
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Panzer Group West

under Rommel
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Ederbach replaces von Schweppenburg
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and operation GOODWOOD
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withdrawal
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Corps

I SS Pz
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II SS Pz
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XXV
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XLVII Pz
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LXXXIV
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Brigades

30th
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Armoured Divisions

1st SS PZ

Mortain counter-attack
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,
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at Argentan
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relieved by 89th Infantry
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2nd SS Pz

near St Denis
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and operation COBRA
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,
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journey to Normandy
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Mortain counter-attack
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,
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and the Falaise gap
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,
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,
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9th SS Pz

couter-attack in EPSOM
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,
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defence of Bourge´bus Ridge
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moved to Mortain
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10th SS Pz

counter-attack in EPSOM
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morale
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12th SS Pz
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,
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,
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determination and fanaticism
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as the Hitler Jugend Division
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defence relies upon
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defends Caen against the bridgehead
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at Cristot
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shooting of prisoners
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at Eterville
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morale
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and operation TOTALIZE
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,
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and the Falaise gap
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,
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ability
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2nd Pz

Villers-Bocage
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,
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,
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at Caumont
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operation COBRA
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,
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Mortain counter-attack
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,
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at Argentan
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9th Pz

Hitler moves towards Avranches
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wiped out
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21st Pz

preparations for invasion
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D-Day
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,
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holds Caen against the bridgehead
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116th Pz
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Pas de Calais
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and operation COBRA
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,
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Mortain counter-attack
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,
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at Argentan
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regroup in
Kampfengruppe Fick
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,
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Panzer Lehr

invasion preparations
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arrives at Caen
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at Tilly
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against the advance on Caen
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,
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,
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,
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operation COBRA
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,
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losses
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U.S. advance south
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ability
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Infantry Divisions

17th SS Pz grenadier
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loyalty
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against the U.S. beachhead
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and operation COBRA
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,
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,
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shellshock in
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Mortain counter-attack
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in the Falaise gap
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77th
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89th
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91st
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243rd
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276th
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319th
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346th
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352nd

invasion preparations
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D-Day
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reinforced
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at St Lô
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353rd
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709th
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711th
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716th

D-Day
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pulls back to Caen
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defence of Caen
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Regiments

3rd Der Führer Pz Grenadiers
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6th Parachute Regiment
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22nd Pz
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125th Pz Grenadiers
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192nd Pz Grenadiers
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266th Artillery
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352nd Artillery
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736th
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858th
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901st Pz Grenadiers
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915th
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919th
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1716th Artillery
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Battalions

101st SS Heavy Tank
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206th Pz
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501st SS Heavy Tank
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Gerow, Major-General L.T.

ability
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D-Day
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advances inland
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in Cotentin
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difficulty in locating units
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operation COBRA
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in Brittany
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takes over at Argentan
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Geske, Ted
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Gill, Colonel
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Gimbert, Private James
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glider landings
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Goales, Sergeant
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Goering, Hermann
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Gold beach
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GOODWOOD, operation
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Gosling, Major Dick
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Gottberg, Captain von
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Goulburn, Lieutenant-Colonel Cuthbert
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Greenland
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Greenwood, Dick
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grenades
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Griffin, Private George Edward
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Grigg, P.J.
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,
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Gross
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Guderian, Colonel Heinz-Gunther

and the hopeless situation
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and the American breakout
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and assassination attempt on Hitler
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in the Falaise gap
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Guderian, General Heinz
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