D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

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    Meyer, ObLt (352nd Inf-Div)
    Meyer, Standartenführer Kurt (‘Panzer Meyer’)
    Middleton, Maj Gen Troy H.
    Midget submarines
    Millin, Piper Bill
    Minesweepers
    Model, GFM Walter
    Monnet, Jean
    Montebourg
    Montgomery, Gen Sir Bernard L.
    on thet (Highland) Division
    and Bradley
    on British tank design
    and the broad front strategy
    and Caen
    Churchill visits
    and Crerar
    and de Gaulle
    and Dempsey
    and Eisenhower
    and the Falaise Pocket
    and the Falaise-Argentan gap
    objectives
    and Operation Bluecoat
    and Operation Charnwood
    and Operation Cobra
    and Operation Epsom
    and Operation Goodwood
    and Operation Totalize
    and Operation Tractable
    and Paris
    and Patton
    plan to envelop Caen
    post-war claims
    and precision bombing
    reluctance to incur losses
    and Tedder
    Morgan, Lt Gen Sir Frederick
    Mortain
    Mortain counter-attack (map),
    Moulin, Jean
    Moyon
    Mulberry harbours

    Nantes
    National Council of Resistance
    Nazi propaganda
    Neave, Maj Airey
    Neave, Maj Julius
    Nordling, Ralph
    Nordling, Raoul
    Normandy
    war damage
    Norrey
    Norwegian Navy
    Svenner

    O’Brien, Father John
    O’Connor, Lt Gen Sir Richard
    Odon, river
    Ogden-Smith, Sgt Bruce
    OKW, Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
    Omaha beach (map)
    assault plan
    battle for
    bombardment
    build-up of forces
    casualties
    combat demolition units
    shock casualties
    supplies through
    Ondefontaine
    Operation Anvil see Operation Dragoon
    Operation Atlantic
    Operation Bagration
    Operation Bluecoat (map)
    Operation Charnwood
    Operation Cobra
    bombing operations
    breakout
    breakthrough (map)
    casualties
    Operation Copperhead
    Operation Cork
    Operation Dragoon
    arguments over
    Operation Epsom (map)
    Operation Foxley
    Operation Glimmer
    Operation Goodwood (map)
    casualties
    over-optimism
    planning
    Operation Jupiter
    Operation Lüttich
    Operation Neptune
    Operation Overlord
    Operation Spring
    Operation Taxable
    Operation Titanic
    Operation Totalize (map)
    Operation Tractable
    Operation Transportation
    Operation Windsor
    Oppeln-Bronikowski, Oberst Hermann v.
    ORA (Organisation de Résistance de l’Armée)
    Oradour-sur-Glane
    Orléans
    Ormel, Mont
    Orne, river
    OSS (Office of Strategic Services)
    Ostendorff, Brigadeführer Werner
    Otway, Lt Col Terence
    Ouistreham

    Paris
    andJuly plot
    advance on
    Allied entry into
    American intention to bypass
    de Gaulle’s victory procession
    German forces in
    German surrender
    liberation of
    uprising
    Parodi, Alexandre
    Partridge, Sgt
    Passy, Col (André de Wavrin)
    Patton, Gen George S.
    and theArmored Division
    advance
    arrival in France
    and Bradley
    and Brittany
    on civil life
    command of ‘1st US Army Group’
    at Dreux
    and Eisenhower
    and the Falaise-Argentan gap
    funeral of Brig Gen Roosevelt
    given command of VIII Corps
    and Leclerc
    logistics
    and Montomery
    and Operation Cobra
    and Paris
    Patton’s ‘Household Cavalry’
    and Saint-Lô
    on self-inflicted wounds
    Third Army becomes operational
    Pays d’Auge
    Pemsel, GenMaj Max
    Percy
    Périers
    Périers ridge
    Perrier ridge
    Peterson, Pte Harold E.
    Piaf, Edith
    Pickert, GenLt Wolfgang
    Pinçon, Mont
    Plan Fortitude
    Plan Ironside
    Podewils, Clemens Graf
    Pogue, Forrest C.
    Pointe du Hoc
    Pointe et Raz de la Percée
    Polish Army
    1st Armd Div
    10th Cavalry Bde
    10th Dragoons
    10th Mounted Rifles
    12th Dragoons
    24th Lancers
    Polish Navy
    ORP Blyskewica
    ORP Dragon
    ORP Krakowiak
    ORP Piorun
    ORP Slazak
    Pontaubault bridge
    Pont-Hébert
    Pont-l’Evêque
    Popov, Dusko
    Portal, ACM Sir Charles
    Port-en-Bessin
    Prisoners of war
    the airborne assault
    Allied illegal killings
    battle of the bocage
    Cherbourg
    Falaise Pocket
    the Kommandobefehl
    Omaha beach
    Operation Cobra
    Operation Goodwood
    Operation Totalize
    rations
    Sword beach
    treatment of
    war crimes accusations by
    Proctor, Cpl.
    Pujol, Juan (‘Garbo’)
    Putz, Cmdt
    Pyle, Ernie

    Quesada, Lt Gen Elwood R. (‘Pete’)

    Rambouillet
    Ramcke, Gen d. Fallschirmtruppe Hermann
    Ramsay, Admiral Sir Bertram
    Ranville
    Rauray
    Red Army
    Reichert, GenLt Joseph
    Reichsarbeitsdienst, the
    Remer, Maj Otto
    Rennes
    Resistance (French)
    in Brittany
    cynicism about
    and de Gaulle
    German reprisals
    and Operation Cobra
    and Operation Dragoon
    Patton on
    strength
    treatment of POWs
    Vercors
    Résistance Fer
    Ribbentrop, Obersturmführer Rudolf v.
    Robehomme
    Roberts, Maj Gen ‘Pip’
    Rol-Tanguy, Col Henri
    Romagny
    Rome
    Rommel, GFM Erwin
    and the coastal defences
    headquarters
    and Kluge
    learns of landings
    and the