INVASION FORCES

ALLIED ARMIES OF LIBERATION IN THE WEST

British, Canadian, American, and French forces with Polish, Dutch, Belgian, and Czechoslovak units, and their commanders operating under the supreme command of General Eisenhower in early October 1944 in the advance on Germany from the West.

Army Groups

21^st Army Group under Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery (Chief of Staff; Major General Sir Francis de Guingand).

12^th Army Group under Lieut General Omar Bradley

6^th Army Group under Lieut General J.L.Devers.

Armies

British 2^nd Army under Lieut General Sir Miles Dempsey

1^st Canadian Army under Lieut General H.D.G. Crerar

U.S. 1^st Army under Lieut General C.H. Hodges. (Chief of Staff Major General W.B.Kean)

U.S. 3^rd Army under Lieut General George S. Patton, junior.

U.S. 7^th Army under Lieut General Alexander M. Patch

U.S. 9^th Army under Lieut General William B. Simpson.

French 1^st Army under General de Lattre de Tassigny.

Allied 1^st Airborne Army under Lieut General Lewis H. Brereton.

OTHER UNITS

BRITISH

CORPS

I under Lieut General J.T. Crocker

VIII under Lieut General Sir Richard O’ Connor

XII under Lieut General N.M.Ritchie

XXX under Lieut General B.G.Horrocks

DIVISIONS

Infantry

3^rd under Major General L.G Whistler

15^th (Scottish) under Major General C.M. Barber

43^rd ( Wessex ) under Major General G.I. Thomas

50^th ( Northumbrian ) under Major General D.A. H. Graham

51^st ( Highland ) under Major General T.G. Rennie

53^rd ( Welsh ) under Major General R.K.Ross.

ARMOURED

7^th (“Desert Rats”) under Major General G.L.Verney.

11^th under Major General G.P.B. Roberts.

Guards under Major General A.H.S. Adair.

AIRBORNE

1^st under Major General R.E. Urquhart

6^th ( including Canadians ) under Major General R.N. Gale.

REGIMENTS

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Black Watch

Cameronians

Cheshire

Corps of Military Police

Country of London Yeomanry

Derbyshire Yeomanry

Devonshire

Dorsetshire

Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

Duck of Wellington’s (West Riding)

Durham Light Infantry

East Lancashire

Essex

Gloucestershire

Gordon Highlanders

Green Howards

Grenadier Guards

Hampshire

Highland Light Infantry

23^rd Hussars

King’s Own Royal

King’s Own Scottish Borderers

King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

King’s Royal Rifle Corps

King’s Shropshire Light Infantry

Lancashire Fusiliers

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

Manchester

Monmouthshire

Middlesex

59^th Newfoundland Heavy R.A.

Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers)

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Pioneer Corps

Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders

Queen’s Royal (West Surreys)

Rifle Brigade

R.A.F. Regiment

Royal Armoured Corps

R.A.M.C.

R.A.O.C.

R.A.S.C.

Royal Artillery

Royal Berkshire

4/7^th Royal Dragoon Guards

Royal Engineers

13.18^th Royal Hussars

Royal Norfolk

Royal Northumberland Fusiliers

Royal Scots Fusiliers

Royal Signals

Royal Ulster Rifles

Royal Warwickshire

Seaforth Highlanders

South Lancashire

South Staffordshire

South Wales Borderers

Staffordshire Yeomanry

Suffolk

Tyneside Scottish

Warwickshire Yeomanry

Welch Fusiliers

Welch

Westminster Dragoons

Wiltshire

York and Lancaster

Royal Marines (Commandos)

Special Service Troops

Royal Observer Corps (volunteers acted as aircraft identifiers with invasion fleet)

CORPS

11 under Lieut General G.G. Simonds

CANADIAN DIVISIONS

Infantry 2^nd under Major General C. Foulkes

3^rd under Major General R.F.L.Keller

Armoured 4th under Major General H.W. Foster

BRIGADE

2^nd Armoured under Brig. J.F. Bingham

REGIMENTS

Algonquin

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Black Watch of Canada

Calgary Highlanders

Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa

Canadian Grenadier Guards

7^th Canadian Recce (17th Duke of York’s Royal Canadian Hussars)

1^st Canadian Scottish

Essex Scottish

Fort Garry Horse

Les Fusiliers Mont Royal

Governor General’s Foot Guards

Highland Light Infantry of Canada

1^st Hussars

Late Superior

Lincoln and Welland

Loine Scots (Peel Dufferin and Halton)

12^th Manitoba Dragoons

North Nova Scotia Highlanders

North Shore (New Brunswick)

Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada

Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada

Regiment de Chaudiere

Regiment de Maisonneuve

Regina Rifles

Royal Hamilton Light Infantry

Royal Regiment of Canada

Royal Winnipeg Rifles

Sherbrooke Fusiliers

South Alberta

South Saskatchewan

Stormont Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders

Toronto Scottish

Dutch, Belgian, Polish and Czechoslovak Units serving with the 1^st Canadian Army.

AMERICAN

Corps

V under Major General L.T. Gerow

VII under Major General J.L. Collins

VIII under Major General T.H. Middleton

XII under Major General M.S. Eddy

XV under Major General W.H. Haislip

XIX under Major General C.H. Corlett

XX under Major General W.H. Walker

Divisions Infantry

1^st under Major General C.R. Huebner

2^ndunder Major General W.M. Robertson

3^rd under Major General John O’ Daniel

4^th under Major General R.O. Barton

5^th under Major General R.E. Brown

8^th under Major General D. A. Stroh

9^th under Major General L.A. Craig

29^th under Major General G.H. Gerhardt

30^th under Major General L.S. Habes

35^th under Major General P.W. Baade

36^th under Major General John Dahiquist

45^th under Major General W.W. Eagles

79^th under Major General I.T. Wyche

80^th under Major General H.L. McBride

83^rd under Major General R.C. Macon

90^th under Brig General J.A. van Fleet

Armoured

2^nd under Major General E.H. Brooks

3^rd under Major General M.A. Rose

4^th under Major General R.N. Grow

6^th under Major General J.S. Wood

7^th under Major General R.W. Hasbrouck

Airborne

82^nd under Major General M.B. Ridgway

101^st under Major General M.D. Taylor

N.B. The Airborne “force” which took part in the South of France landings was under Major General Robert Frederick.

FRENCH DIVISIONS

1^st Armoured; General Touzer du Vigier

2^nd Armoured; General J.P.Lecierc

Colonial and F.F.I. units

POLISH DIVISION

1^st Armoured; Brig General Stanislaw Maze

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