Operation Perch order of battle

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.

British Order of Battle

21st Army Group

General Officer Commanding-in-Chief: General Sir Bernard Montgomery[1]
Chief of the General Staff: Freddie de Guingand

Second Army

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

I Corps

Lieutenant-General John Crocker

XXX Corps

Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall

German order of battle

I SS Panzer Corps

SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich

XLVII Panzer Corps

LXXXIV Korps

See also

Notes

Footnotes
    Citations
    1. 1 2 Wilmot, p. 732

    References

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    • Forty, George (2004). Villers Bocage. Battle Zone Normandy. Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-3012-8.
    • Taylor, Daniel (1999). Villers-Bocage Through the Lens. After the Battle. ISBN 1-870067-07-X.
    • Wilmot, Chester; Christopher Daniel McDevitt (1997) [1952]. The Struggle For Europe. Wordsworth Editions Ltd. ISBN 1-85326-677-9.
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