D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

invasion area (Operation Transportation)
    Villers-Bocage
    Bon Sauveur, convent of the
    Bordeaux
    Botsford, Lt Gardner
    Boulogne
    Bradley, Gen Omar N.
    and Montgomery, Gen Sir Bernard L.
    and Patton, Gen George S.
    Brécey
    Brest
    Brest peninsula
    Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse
    Bretteville-sur-Laize
    Bréville
    British Army
    combat exhaustion
    conservatism
    desertions
    infantry shortages
    lack of mechanization
    manpower crisis
    reluctance to help other arms
    replacement system
    tactics
    tank design
    tank-infantry cooperation
    UK defence force
    war-weariness
    British Army, 21st Army Group
    British Army, Armies
    Second Army
    Eighth Army
    British Army, Corps
    I Corps
    VIII Corps
    XII Corps
    XXX Corps
    British Army, Divisions
    Guards Armd
    3rd Inf
    6th Airborne
    7th Armd
    11th Armd
    15th Inf (Scottish)
    43rd Inf (Wessex)
    50th Inf (Northumberland)
    51st Inf (Highland)
    British Army, Brigades
    1st Special Service Bde
    3rd Para Bde
    4th Armd Bde
    5th Para Bde
    Guardsh Tank Bde
    8th Bde
    8th Armd Bde
    9th Bde
    22nd Armd Bde
    29th Armd Bde
    33rd Armd Bde
    56th Bde
    69th Bde
    129th Bde
    130th Bde
    131st Armd Bde
    185th Bde
    SAS Bde
    Special Air Service
    British Army, Armd Regiments
    1st Northants Yeomanry
    2nd Welsh Guards
    3rd Royal Tank Rgt
    3rd Scots Guards
    4th Coldstream
    4th County of London Yeomanry
    4th/7th Dragoon Guards
    5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
    11th Hussars
    13th/18th Hussars
    22nd Dragoons
    23rd Hussars
    44th Royal Tank Rgt
    East Riding Yeomanry
    Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
    Household Cavalry Rgt
    Inns of Court
    Royal Scots Greys
    Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry
    Staffordshire Yeomanry
    Westminster Dragoons
    British Army, Infantry Battalions
    1/4th King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
    1/5th Queens
    1st Dorsets
    1st Grenadiers
    1st Hampshires
    1st King’s Own Scottish Borderers
    1st Norfolks
    1st Rifle Brigade
    1st South Lancashire
    1st Suffolk
    1st Tyneside Scottish
    2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
    2nd Devons
    2nd East Yorks
    2nd Essex
    2nd Glasgow Highlanders
    2nd King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
    2nd Middlesex
    2nd Ox and Bucks Light Infantry
    2nd South Wales Borderers
    2nd Ulster Rifles
    2nd Warwicks
    4 Commando
    4th Dorsets
    4th Somerset Light Infantry
    5th Black Watch
    5th Coldstream
    5th Dorsets
    5th Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
    5th East Yorks
    5th Wiltshires
    6 Commando
    6th Duke of Wellington’s Rgt
    6th Durham Light Infantry
    6th Green Howards
    7th Norfolks
    8th Durham Light Infantry
    8th Para
    9th Durham Light Infantry
    9th Para
    12th Para
    13th Para
    Royal Engineers
    Brittany
    Brooke, FM Sir Alan (later Viscount Alanbrooke)
    Brotheridge, Lt Den
    Browning, Lt Gen Sir Frederick (‘Boy’)
    Bruce, Col David
    Bucknall, Lt Gen Gerard
    Buhle, Gen d. Inf Walter
    Bull, Maj Gen Harold R.
    Bülowius, Gen d. Flieger
    Bushey Park (SHAEF headquarters)

    ‘C’ see Menzies, Sir Stewart
    Cabourg
    Caen
    attack, 7 June
    battle for
    bombardment of
    bombing ofJune
    casualties
    cholera threat
    Civil Affairs entry into
    civilians in
    de Gaulle visits
    envelopment attempt
    failure to seize on first day
    final shell falls on
    German attack, 10 June, cancelled
    and the landings
    rebuilding
    stalemate
    victory parade
    Caen Canal
    Cagny
    Calais
    Calvados
    Cambes
    Canadian Army
    advance into Caen
    battles for Carpiquet airfield
    landing Juno
    First Canadian Army
    II Canadian Corps
    Canadian Army, Divisions
    2nd Inf
    3rd Inf
    4th Armd
    Canadian Army, Brigades
    7th Bde
    8th Bde
    9th Bde
    Canadian Army, Armd Regiments
    1st Hussars
    British Columbia
    Fort Garry Horse
    Grenadier Guards of Canada
    Sherbrooke Fusiliers
    Canadian Army, Infantry Battalions
    1st Para
    Algonquins
    Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada
    Black Watch of Canada
    Calgary Highlanders
    Canadian Scottish Rgt
    North Nova Scotia Highlanders
    North Shore Rgt
    Queen’s Own Rifles
    Régiment de la Chaudière
    Regina Rifles
    Royal Winnipeg Rifles
    Canham, Col Charles D.
    Canisy
    Capa, Robert
    Carentan
    Carpiquet airfield
    Casualties
    airborne assault
    Army Group B total
    battle of the bocage
    Caen
    Cherbourg
    combat fatigue and shock
    evacuation
    Falaise Pocket
    first aid treatment
    French civilians
    Juno beach
    officer
    Omaha beach
    Operation Cobra
    Operation Epsom
    Operation Goodwood
    Operation Totalize
    Operation Tractable
    Paris
    Saint-Lô
    Sword beach
    totals
    totals toJune
    treatment of
    Utah beach
    Villers-Bocage
    Caumont
    Cerisy, Forêt de
    Cerisy-la-Salle
    Chaban-Delmas, Jacques
    Chambois
    Channel Islands
    Chartres
    Chef du