Operation Epsom order of battle

This is the order of battle for Operation Epsom, a Second World War battle between British and German forces in Normandy, France between 26 June and 30 June 1944.

British Order of Battle

Second Army General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey

German Order of Battle

Seventh Army / Panzer Group West

General Friedrich Dollmann (until 1700 hours 28 June) <br /> General der Panzertruppe (General of Armoured Troops) Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg (from 1700 hours 28 June)

Army Troops

• Projector Brigade 7
• Projector Brigade 8

I SS Panzer Corps

SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich

• Corps Troops
• Heavy SS Panzer Battalion 101 - SS-Obersturmbannführer Heinz von Westerhagen
• SS-Artillery Battalion 101
• Artillery Battalion 992
• 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend - SS-Standartenführer Kurt Meyer
• SS-Panzer Regiment 12
• SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 25
• SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 26
• SS-Panzer Artillery Regiment 12
• SS-Reconnaissance Battalion 12
• SS-Anti-Tank Battalion 12
• SS-Projector Battalion 12
• SS-Anti-Aircraft Battalion 12
• SS-Panzer Pioneer Battalion 12
• 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler - SS-Obersturmbannführer Albert Frey
• battlegroup Frey
• SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 3 (elements)
• SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 4 (elements)
• 21st Panzer Division - Generalmajor Edgar Feuchtinger
• One battlegroup
• Panzer-Lehr-Division (elements) - Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein
• 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich - SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Weidinger
• Battlegroup Weidinger
• 1st Battalion, 4th SS Panzer-Grenadier Regiment "Der Führer"
• 14th, 15th and 16th (Support) Companies, 4th SS Panzer-Grenadier Regiment "Der Führer"
• 1st Battalion, 3rd SS Panzer-Grenadier Regiment "Deutschland"

II SS Panzer Corps

SS-Obergruppenführer Paul Hausser (until morning of 29 June)<br /> SS-Obergruppenführer Willi Bittrich (from morning of 29 June)

• 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen - SS-Standartenführer Thomas Müller
• SS-Panzer Regiment 9
• SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 19
• SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 20
• SS-Panzer Artillery Regiment 9
• SS-Reconnaissance Battalion 9
• SS-Anti-Tank Battalion 9
• SS-Anti-Aircraft Battalion 9
• SS-Panzer Pioneer Battalion 9
• 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg - SS-Oberführer Heinz Harmel
• SS-Panzer Regiment 10
• SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 21
• SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 22
• SS-Panzer Artillery Regiment 10
• SS-Reconnaissance Battalion 10
• SS-Anti-Aircraft Battalion 10
• SS-Panzer Pioneer Battalion 10

III Anti-Aircraft Corps

General der Flakartillerie Wolfgang Pickert

• 4th Anti-Aircraft Regiment (88mm Anti-Aircraft and other guns)

XLVII Panzer Corps

• 2nd Panzer Division (elements)
• One battlegroup based around a tank battalion

See also

• List of orders of battle

Notes

Footnotes

Citations

References

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• Lt-Gen H.G. Martin, The History of the Fifteenth Scottish Division 1939–1945, Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1948/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78331-085-2.
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• Tim Saunders, Battleground Europe: Operation Epsom: Normandy, June 1944, Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2003, ISBN 0-85052-954-9.
• Don Neal, Guns and Bugles: The Story of the 6th Bn KSLI – 181st Field Regiment RA 1940–1946, Studley: Brewin, 2001, .