D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

Pont
    Cherbourg
    advance on
    bombing ofJune
    capture of(map)
    casualties
    coastal batteries
    conditions afterwards
    supplies through
    Cherbourg peninsula see Cotentin peninsula
    Cheux
    Chevallerie, Gen d. Inf Kurt v..
    Choltitz, GenLt Dietrich v.
    Christopherson, Lt Col Stanley
    Churchill, Winston S.
    Cintheaux
    Civil Affairs
    Clark, Gen Mark
    Coastal defences
    Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle
    Collaborators
    head-shaving
    treatment of
    Colleville-sur-Mer
    Collins, Maj Gen J. Lawton
    Colville, John (‘Jock’)
    Combat fatigue and shock
    Combined Operations Beach Reconnaissance and Assault Pilotage Parties (COPP)
    Comité Français de Libération Nationale
    Commander-in-Chief West (OB West)
    Communist propaganda
    Communists see French Communist Party
    Coningham, Air Marshal Sir Arthur
    Conseil National de la Résistance
    Conspiracy theories, Nazi
    Cook, Maj Gen Gilbert
    Cooper, Sir Alfred Duff
    Corlett, Lt Gen Charles
    Cota, Brig Gen Norman D.
    Cotentin peninsula (map)
    Coudehard, heights of
    Coulet, François
    Courseulles
    Coutances
    Crépon
    Crerar, Lt Gen Henry
    Cristot
    Culin, Sgt Curtis G.

    Dannhauser, GenLt Paul
    Daure, Marianne
    Daure, Pierre
    DD Sherman tanks
    De Gaulle, Gen Charles
    arrival in Britain
    and Eisenhower
    first visit to Normandy
    and Leclerc
    and the liberation of Paris
    relationship with Churchill
    and the Resistance
    and Roosevelt
    victory procession in Paris
    visit to Caen
    De Guingand, Maj Gen Sir Francis
    De Wavrin, André see Passy, Col
    Deception operations see Plan Fortitude
    Défense Passive
    Dempsey, Lt Gen Sir Miles
    Dieppe raid
    Dietrich, Obergruppenführer Sepp
    Dio, Col Louis
    Dives, river
    Doane, Lt Col Leander L.
    Dollmann, GenOb Friedrich
    Dönitz, Großadmiral Karl
    Double Cross Committee
    Douglas, Capt Keith
    Douve, river
    Douvres-la-Délivrande
    Dronne, Cpte Raymond
    Dunkirk

    Eastern front
    Eberbach, Gen. PzTr Hans
    Ecouché
    Ecouves, Fôret d’
    Eddy, Maj Gen Manton S.
    Eden, Anthony
    Ehrenburg, Ilya
    Eisenhower, Gen Dwight D. (‘Ike’)
    approves Falaise-Argentan gap plan
    and Caen
    and de Gaulle
    and Montgomery
    and Operation Dragoon
    and Operation Epsom
    and Patton
    visits airborne embarkation
    Elbeuf
    Elfeldt, GenLt Otto
    English Channel, crossing
    Eon, Col
    Erskine, Maj Gen George (‘Bobby’)
    Escoville
    Esquay
    Evrecy
    Exercise Tiger

    Falaise
    Falaise-Argentan gap
    Falaise Pocket (map)
    Falley, GenLt Wilhelm
    Farmbacher, Gen d. Art Wilhelm
    Fegelein, Gruppenführer Hermann
    Female snipers
    Feuchtinger, GenMaj Edgar
    FFI (Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur)
    Flers
    Fontaine l’Abbé
    Fontainebleau
    Fontenay-le-Marmion
    Fontenay-le-Pesnel
    Fortitude see Plan Fortitude
    Fouquer, Rev Père Roger
    Fox, Lt Dennis
    French Army
    2ème Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes (4th SAS)
    2ème Régiment de Marche du Tchad
    2nd Armoured Division (2ème DB)
    landing Utah
    transfer to Britain
    3ème Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes
    12ème Chasseurs d’Afrique
    501ème Régiment de Chars
    Spahis marocains
    French civilians
    and the airborne assault
    attitudes to Allied soldiers
    casualties
    and the landings
    looting
    at Mortain
    under the occupation
    revenge on collaboration
    French Communist Party ; see also FTP
    in Paris uprising
    in Resistance
    French Navy (Forces Navales Françaises Libres)
    La Combattante
    Georges Leygues
    Montcalm
    Friendly bombing
    Friendly fire
    Fritsch, GenOb Werner Freiherr v.
    Fromm, GenOb Friedrich
    FTP (Franc Tireurs et Partisans)
    Fabien battalion
    Funck, Gen d. PzTr Hans Freiherr v.
    Furgon, Mont

    Gaffey, Maj Gen Hugh G.
    Gale, Maj Gen Richard
    Garby-Czerniawski, Roman
    Gavin, Brig Gen James M.
    Gavray
    Gavrus
    George VI, King
    Gerhardt, Maj Gen Charles H.
    German Air Force see Luftwaffe
    German Army
    discipline
    losses in Normandy
    propaganda and morale
    strength
    tactics and effectiveness
    tensions with the Waffen-SS
    training
    see also Luftwaffe (for paratroop units); Waffen-SS
    German Army, Army Groups
    Army Group B
    Army Group Centre
    German Army, Armies
    First Army
    Panzer Group Eberbach
    Panzer Group West (later Fifth Panzer Army)
    Seventh Army
    Fifteenth Army
    German Army, Corps
    XXV Corps
    XLVII Panzer Corps
    LXXXI Corps
    LXXXIV Corps
    German Army, Divisions
    2nd Panzer
    9th Panzer
    11th Panzer
    21st Panzer
    84th Infanterie
    85th Infanterie
    89th Infanterie
    91st Luftlande
    116th Panzer
    256th Infanterie
    266th Infanterie
    271st Infanterie
    275th Infanterie
    276th Infanterie
    277th Infanterie
    319th Infanterie
    326th Infanterie
    346th