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 Infanterie
348th Infanterie
352nd Infanterie
353rd Infanterie
708th Infanterie
709th Infanterie
711th Infanterie
716th Infanterie
Panzer Lehr Div
attack on American sector
losses against British
in Operation Cobra
German Army, Brigades, Regiments etc.
7th Mortar Bde
24th Pz-Rgt
30th Mobile Bde
100th Pz Bn
304th Pzgr-Rgt
503rd Heavy Pz Bn
726th Grenadier-Rgt
901st Pzgr-Rgt
902nd Pzgr-Rgt
916th Grenadier-Rgt
1057th Grenadier-Rgt
cossacks
Osttruppen
German massacres in France
German Navy see Kriegsmarine
German occupation
Gerow, Gen Leonard T.
Gersdorff, GenMaj Rudolf Freiherr v.
Gestapo
Geyr v. Schweppenburg, Gen d. PzTr Freiherr Leo
Goebbels, Josef
Goerdler, Dr Carl
Gold beach (map)
Göring, Reichsmarschall Hermann
Gouffern, Fôret de
Gouvernement Provisoire de la République Française
Grandcamp
Granville
‘Great Storm’, the (19-22 June)
Grimbosq, Fôret de
Grimesnil
Ground-air cooperation
Grow, Maj Gen Robert C.
Gruchy
Guderian, GenOb Heinz
Guillebon, Cdt Jacques de
Günsche, Hauptsturmführer Otto
Hall, Admiral John L.
Hardaway, Lt Col Eads J.
Harris, ACM Sir Arthur (‘Bomber’)
Hartmetz, Sdt Rainer
Hase, GenOb Paul v.
Hausser, Oberstgruppenführer Paul
Hébécrevon
Heintz, André
Hellmich, GenLt Heinz
Hemingway, Ernest
Hermanville
Heydte, Maj Freiherr v. d.
Hickey, Brig Gen Doyle O.
Hill, Brig James
Hill
Hill
Hill
Hill
Hill
Hill
Hill
Hill
Hill
Hill
Hill
Hill
Hill
Hill
Hill
Hill
Hill (Mortain)
‘Hillman’ strongpoint
Himmler, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich
Hinde, Brig Robert (‘Loony’)
Hitler, Adolf
Avranches counter-attack
and Cherbourg
‘fortress’ orders
invasion expectations
July assassination plot
last visit to France
learns of landings
Margival conference
and the Mortain counterattack
and Operation Cobra
and Operation Dragoon
and Operation Lüttich
orders Alençon attack
and Paris
replaces Geyr
replaces Kluge
response to landings
and threat of British Second Army
trust in Waffen-SS
Hiwis (Hilfswillige)
Hobart, Maj Gen Percy
Hodges, Gen Courtney H.
Holbrook, Bradley
Hollis, CSM Stanley
Horrocks, Lt Gen Brian
Howard, Maj John
Howie, Maj Thomas D.
Huebner, Maj Gen Clarence R
Isigny
Ismay, Lt Gen Sir Hastings (‘Pug’)
Jedburgh teams
Jobourg
Jodl, GenOb Alfred
Johnson, Col Howard R. (‘Jump’)
Jort
Juin, Gen Alphonse
July plot
possible negotiations with Allies
Jünger, Ernst
Juno beach (map)
Jurques
Juvigny-le-Tertre
Keitel, GFM Wilhelm
Keller, Maj Gen Rod
Kennedy, Ludovic
Kenner, Maj Gen Albert W.
Kieffer, Cmdt Philippe
Killing of prisoners
King, Admiral
Kitching, Maj Gen George
Kluge, GFM Günther-Hans v.
and July plot
argument with Rommel
becomes OB West
and the Falaise-Argentan gap
and the Mortain counterattack
and Operation Cobra
and Operation Goodwood
and Operation Totalize
orders withdrawl to River Orne
relaunches Operation Lüttich
replaced by Model
suicide
Kluge, ObLt v.
Koenig, Gen Pierre
Kraiss, GenMaj Dietrich
Kraminov, Col
Kriegsmarine
Naval Group West
La Fière
La Haye-du-Puits
La Hogue
La Rivière
La Rochelle
Laizon, river
Lammerding, Brigadeführer Heinz
Langlade, Col Paul de
Laval
Laval, Pierre
Le Fresne Camilly
Le Havre
Le Mans
Le Mesnil-Adelée
Le Mesnil-Tôve
Leahy, Admiral William D.
Lebisey
Leclerc, Gen Philippe (comte de Hautecloque)
Lee, Lt Gen John C. H.