Rückzug: The German Retreat from France, 1944

Index

401 Index Aachen (Germany), 157, 193, 221, 224–25, 253–57, 258–61, 281, 374n12 Aachen-Cologne autobahn, 256 Aachen-Monschau line, 253 Abbeville (France), 170 Africa, Allied troops/positions in, 7, 48, 50 Air Defense District VI (Germany), 214 Air Defense District XI (Germany), 214 Aisne River, 169 Aix-en-Provence (France), 113 Albert (France), 171, 188 Allied Combined Chiefs of Staff, 53, 54, 233, 281–82, 296n1 (ch. 2), 385n2 Allied First Airborne Army, 153, 158, 207, 233–34, 275, 335n38 Allied invasion (June 1944), 1, 8–9, 295n4 See also Operation DRAGOON; Operation OVERLORD; Operation OVERLORD, Allied advance following Allies African offensive of, 7 air superiority of, 8, 17, 21–25, 65–66, 75, 207, 239–40, 250–51, 302–3n49 bombing raids, 9, 10, 11 combat losses, 96 FFI and, 327n60 German resistance underestimated by, 273–74, 289–90 German retreat hindered by, 110 Germany First objective of, 13 naval superiority of, 8, 65 numerical superiority of, 17, 22, 207–8 occupation plans of, 237–38 operational objectives of, 2, 28, 49–50 optimism regarding WWII’s end, 133, 199, 201, 237–38, 290, 295n4 Paris in planning by, 133–37, 139, 150–51, 325–26n26 required strength figures, 18t, 297n27 strategic bombing forces of, 298n54 ULTRA intelligence system of, 82, 200, 289, 296n16, 334n19 unconditional surrender demanded by, 9, 10–11 See also Operation DRAGOON; Operation MARKETGARDEN ; Operation OVERLORD; Operation OVERLORD, Allied advance following; Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF); specific country Alpha Sector, 63–64, 69 Alps, 77, 115–16 Alsdorf (Germany), 374n12 Amanvillers (France), 229 Amiens (France), 161, 171, 188 Amsterdam (Netherlands), 271 Andelot (France), 246 Angers (France), 57 Annency (France), 115 402 Index Antwerp (Belgium) Allied inability to use harbors at, 238, 269, 284, 292, 381n171 as Allied post-OVERLORD objective, 158, 159, 160–61, 200–201, 289, 335n49 Allied threats to, 355n97 fall of (1944), 192–93, 206, 281, 283–84, 292 German defenses, 192, 214–16 harbor capacity of, 199, 206 Operation MARKET-GARDEN and, 236–37 strategic significance of, 233, 234 Antwerp-Albert Canal, 173, 192, 194, 206–7, 214–16, 219, 223, 227, 355n97 Anzio (Italy), Allied landings in (1944), 53 Apennines Front, 34 Appeal to the Soldiers of the Army of the West (Model), 191 Arcen (Netherlands), 226 Ardennes Forest, 156–57, 221, 222, 351n10 Ardennes Offensive (1944) fuel requirements for, 368n45 Hitler’s plans for, 2, 251, 281, 287, 373n153 scholarship on, 1 Arenberg (Germany), 190, 191–92 Argens River, 64, 70 Argens River Valley, 68, 73 Argentan (France), 92 Argonnes Forest, 239 Arles (France), 76 Armée Secrète (France), 26 Army Group B (Germany), 3, 276 Allied attempts to encircle, 42 Allied breakthrough at Paris front line of, 164–66, 281, 283–84 Army Group G transfers to, 49, 51, 60–61 combat operations in sector of, 120–29 combat readiness of, 82, 172, 175–76, 207–8, 285 command area of, 31 counteroffensive proposed for, 60 at Falaise Pocket, 41, 42–44 headquarters of relocated, 85–86 Kluge as commander of, 40 left wing of, 106, 110, 187, 285 Model as commander of, 203, 285–86, 287 at Normandy Front, 34 Operation MARKET-GARDEN and, 275, 276 Paris cut off from, 132 reinforcement of, 221, 222, 285 rendezvous with Army Task Group G, 80, 106, 114, 176, 182, 184, 286 retreat of, 82, 311n191 situation of, at beginning of Model’s command, 88–97 US breakthrough in, 56–57 Army High Command (German), 3, 31 Army Personnel Office (German), 268 Army Resistance Organization (ORA) (French), 26 Army Task Group G/Army Group G (Germany), 3, 191–92 Allied attack on, during retreat, 114 Allied threats to rear of, 57 Balck as commander of, 269 Blaskowitz as commander of, 48, 304n7 combat strength of, 75 command area of, 31 components of, 48 Index 403 at Dompaire, 247–51 equipment/communications shortcomings of, 59, 70–71, 73–74, 81, 82, 109, 116, 117, 180, 311n183 First Army under, 239 foreign volunteers in, 58–59, 69 French Resistance activity against, 66–67, 116 German counteroffensive plans, 239–40 in Hitler’s counteroffensive plan, 204, 354n79 isolation of, in Rhône River Valley, 155, 161, 165, 168, 176 maneuver campaign and, 41–42 march columns merged, 180 Mediterranean coast defended by, 57–59 Operation DRAGOON preparations, 50–51 personnel shortages in, 48–49, 51, 57–58, 60–61 renamed Army Group G, 245, 371n104 rendezvous...