Order of battle for Operation Nordwind

    This is the order of battle of German and Allied forces during Operation Nordwind in World War II

    Allied Forces

    Sixth Army Group (Devers)

    US Seventh Army (Patch)

    XV Corps (Haislip)
    103rd Infantry Division
    44th Infantry Division
    100th Infantry Division
    63rd Infantry Division
    VI Corps (Brooks)
    A red diamond with a yellow outline of a bird with small wings and a large tail 45th Infantry Division
    70th Infantry Division
    42nd Infantry Division
    79th Infantry Division

    French First Army (Tassigny)

    I Corps (Béthouart)
    1st Infantry March Division
    2nd Armored Division
    3rd Algerian Infantry Division
    II Corps (Monsabert)
    1st Armored Division
    1st Colonial Infantry Division
    3rd Moroccan Division
    4th Moroccan Mountain Division
    5th Armored Division
    10th Infantry Division
    US XXI Corps (Milburn)
    12th Armored Division
    14th Armored Division
    36th Infantry Division

    Axis Forces

    Army Group G (Blaskowitz)

    First Army (Obstfelder)

    25th Panzergrenadier Division
    21st Panzer Division
    6th SS Mountain Division Nord
    XIII SS Corps (Simon)
    19th Volksgrenadier Division
    36th Volksgrenadier Division
    17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen
    XC Corps
    559th Volksgrenadier Division
    257th Volksgrenadier Division
    LXXXIX Corps
    361st Volksgrenadier Division
    245th Infantry Division
    256th Volksgrenadier Division

    Army Group Upper Rhine (Himmler)

    Nineteenth Army (Rasp)

    10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg
    LXIV Corps
    189th Infantry Division
    198th Infantry Division
    708th Volksgrenadier Division
    16th Infantry Division
    LXIII Corps
    338th Infantry Division
    159th Infantry Division
    716th Infantry Division
    269th Infantry Division

    Sources

      • Steven Zaloga "Operation Nordwind 1945" Osprey Publishing (June 22, 2010) ISBN 978-1-84603-683-5
      • Engler, Richard. The Final Crisis: Combat in Northern Alsace, January 1945. Aberjona Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-9666389-1-2
      • Clarke, Jeffrey J.; Ross Smith, Robert (1993). Riviera to the Rhine. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
      • US 44th Infantry Division - Nordwind. Battle History of the United States 44th Infantry Division, ETO 1944 - 1945
      • 14th Armored Division Combat History
      • Cirillo, Roger. The Ardennes-Alsace. The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II. United States Army Center of Military History. CMH Pub 72-26.
      • The NORDWIND Offensive (January 1945) on the website of the 100th Infantry Division Association contains a list of German primary sources on the operation.
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