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 MontgomeryWilmot, p. 732 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 George Erskine 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division - Major-General Evelyn Barker 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division - Major-General Douglas Graham 8th Armoured Brigade

German order of battle

I SS Panzer Corps SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich

Panzer-Lehr-Division 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend 21st Panzer Division Heavy SS Panzer Battalion 101

III Flak Corps

XLVII Panzer Corps

2nd Panzer Division

LXXXIV Korps

352nd Infantry Division 716th Static Infantry Division

See also

List of orders of battle

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