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

• 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

Notes

Footnotes

Citations

1. 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.