Battle of Normandy/Related Articles: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:46, 18 December 2010

Second World War [r]: Add brief definition or description
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dwight D. Eisenhower [r]: (1890-1969) A career soldier who was the top Allied commander in Europe in World War II, and who later served as the 34th president of the United States (1953-1961). ^[e]
Operation OVERLORD [r]: Add brief definition or description
London Controlling Section [r]: An extremely secret British staff organization, in World War II, in charge of strategic deception, principally to convince the Nazis that the main invasion of Europe would come at any of a variety of places other than Normandy; U.S. counterpart was Joint Security Control ^[e]
- Plan BODYGUARD [r]: In World War II, the main Allied strategic deception plan to convince the Wehrmacht that the main invasion of the continent of Europe would take place at the Pas de Calais, while diversions would be staged at other locations including Normandy. ^[e]

Operation NEPTUNE [r]: Allied code name, within Operation Overlord, for the actual Normandy landing on D-Day (6 June 1944). ^[e]
Eisenhower and the Normandy Invasion [r]: The decisionmaking of Dwight D. Eisenhower associated with the Battle of Normandy and the selection of the place and date of that invasion ^[e]

Bernard Montgomery [r]: Field Marshal of the British Army, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, senior British and joint commander in the Second World War (1887-1976) ^[e]
- Twenty-first Army Group [r]: First major operational headquarters in 1944 Operation Overlord in Western Europe; Commonwealth force commanded by Gen. Bernard Montgomery and served as ground forces headquarters for the Operation Neptune initial landings ^[e]
Omar Bradley [r]: (1893-1981) An American general during World War II and the Korean war, as well as Chief of Staff of the Army and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ^[e]
- Twelfth Army Group [r]: Second major operational headquarters in the invasion of Western Europe under Operation Overlord; commanded by Gen. Omar Bradley and activated on 1 August 1944, with 21 ground divisions and air support totalling 903,000 men. ^[e]
George S. Patton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- First U.S. Army Group [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Third United States Army [r]: In United States Central Command, the headquarters organization for United States Army Components. Also designated ARCENT. ^[e]

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 {{subpages}}
+{{TOC|right}}
 ==Parent topics==
 {{r|Second World War}}
@@ Line 9: / Line 9: @@
 {{r|Plan BODYGUARD||**}}
 ==Subtopics==
+===Allied theater level===
 {{r|Operation NEPTUNE}}
 {{r|Eisenhower and the Normandy Invasion}}
+===Allied operational level===
 {{r|Bernard Montgomery}}
 {{r|Twenty-first Army Group||**}}
@@ Line 19: / Line 20: @@
 {{r|First U.S. Army Group||**}}
 {{r|Third United States Army||**}}
+====Battles====
 {{r|Gold Beach}}
 {{r|Juno Beach}}
@@ Line 27: / Line 28: @@
 {{r|Hobart's Funnies}}
+====Logistics====
 {{r|Mulberry (code name)}}
 {{r|Pluto (code name)}} Pipe Line Under The Ocean
+===German command===
+{{r|Gerd von Rundstedt}}
+====German operational level====
+{{r|Army Group B}}
+{{r|Erwin Rommel}}
 ==Other related topics==
 {{r|Deception}}