User:Hungrydog55/sandbox/military/europeanfront/1940-05 OOB fortheBattleofFrance highlevel

High-Level order of battle[edit]

Allies[edit]

French 1st Army Group

Général d'armée Gaston Billotte (thru 23 May 1940)

Général d'armée Georges Maurice Jean Blanchard (from 24 May 1940)

French forces

First Army (Général d'armée Georges Maurice Jean Blanchard)

Second Army (Général d'armée Charles Huntziger)

Seventh Army (Général d'armée Henri Giraud)

Ninth Army (Général d'armée André Corap)

Belgian Army

King Leopold III of Belgium

British Expeditionary Force

General Lord Gort

I Corps (Lieutenant-General Michael Barker,
succeeded by Major-General Harold Alexander)

II Corps (Lieutenant-General Alan Brooke,
ssucceeded by Major-General Bernard Montgomery)

III Corps (Lieutenant-General Ronald Adam)

French 2nd Army Group

General de Armee Andre-Gaston Pretelat

Third Army (General Charles-Marie Condé)

Fourth Army (General Edouard Réquin)

Fifth Army (General Victor Bourret)

French 3rd Army Group

Général d'Armée Antoine-Marie-Benoit Besson

Eighth Army (General Marcel Garchery)

Royal Netherlands Army (Luitenant-generaal Godfried van Voorst tot Voorst)

French army facing Italy

Armee des Alps (Général d'Armée René Olry)

French reserves

Axis[edit]

German Army Group B

Generaloberst Fedor von Bock

Sixth Army (Generaloberst Walter von Reichenau^[a])

Eighteenth Army (General der Artillerie Georg von Küchler^[b])

German Army Group A

Generaloberst Gerd von Rundstedt

Fourth Army (Generaloberst Günther von Kluge^[c])

Twelfth Army (Generaloberst Wilhelm List)

Sixteenth Army (General der Infanterie Ernst Busch^[d])

Panzer Group Kleist (General der Kavallerie P.L. Ewald von Kleist^[e])

German Army Group C

Generaloberst Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb^[f]

First Army (Generaloberst Erwin von Witzleben^[g])

Seventh Army (Generaloberst Friedrich Dollmann)

OKH Reserve

Second Army (General der Kavallerie Maximilian von Weichs)

Ninth Army (Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz)

Italian Army Group "West"

Prince General Umberto di Savoia

First Army (General Pietro Pintor)

Fourth Army (General Alfredo Guzzoni)

Notes[edit]

^ Died January 1942 on the Russian Front following crash of medical evacuation aircraft; a committed anti-Semite, he was posthumously implicated by the Nuremberg Trials.
^ Served a little over four years for war crimes.
^ Committed suicide upon learning he would be implicated in the 20 July Plot
^ Died July 1945 in a POW camp in England.
^ Died November 1945 in prison in the USSR.
^ Commanded Army Group North during Operation Barbarossa
^ Executed for involvement in the 20 July Plot

Bibliography[edit]

References[edit]

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Sources[edit]

"Generals from France". Generals of WWII. Steen Ammentorp. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
Horne, Alistair (1969). To Lose a Battle: France 1940. Boston: Little, Brown. OCLC 5258.
Dowden, P. "Situation at Sedan 1940". The War Tourist. Homestead. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
Lehman, David. "Battle of Flavion". Axis History Forum. phpBB. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
War over Holland May 1940: The Dutch struggle
Bishop, Chris (2007). Waffen-SS Divisions 1939-45. ISBN 978-1-86227-432-7.

Category:Battle of France Category:World War II orders of battle

[1] Died January 1942 on the Russian Front following crash of medical evacuation aircraft; a committed anti-Semite, he was posthumously implicated by the Nuremberg Trials.

[2] Served a little over four years for war crimes.

[3] Committed suicide upon learning he would be implicated in the 20 July Plot

[4] Died July 1945 in a POW camp in England.

[5] Died November 1945 in prison in the USSR.

[6] Commanded Army Group North during Operation Barbarossa

[7] Executed for involvement in the 20 July Plot

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