GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
Map 1: The European Theater of Operations – June 1944 to May 1945
Map 2: The Strategic Debate – 1942–44
Map 3: Precursors to Overlord – 1942–44
Map 4: German Assessment of Allied Divisions in the UK – May 31, 1944
Map 5: The Atlantic Wall in France – 1944
CHAPTER 1: THE INVASION FRONT, JUNE 6, 1944
Map 6: Routes to the D-Day Invasion Beaches
Map 7: Naval Bombardment on D-Day
Map 8: Western Task Force's Assault on D-Day
Map 9: German Defenses on the Cotentin Peninsula – June 6, 1944
Map 10: US Airborne Landings – June 6, 1944
Map 11: Utah Beach – June 6–7, 1944
Map 12: Pointe du Hoc – June 6, 1944
Map 13: Assault Landing Plan, Western Side, Omaha Beach
Map 14: German Defenses on Omaha Beach
Map 15: D-Day Operations on Omaha Beach – June 6, 1944
Map 16: The Eastern Task Force
Map 17: German Defenses on Gold Beach
Map 18: Gold Beach on D-Day
Map 19: German Defenses on Juno Beach
Map 20: The Canadians at Juno Beach
Map 21: German Defenses on Sword Beach
Map 22: British 6th Airborne Division Landings
Map 23: Amphibious Landings on Sword Beach
Map 24: The British Lodgment Area – Night, June 6, 1944
CHAPTER 2: THE BATTLE FOR FRANCE, JUNE–AUGUST 1944
Map 25: The Battle for Carentan – June 10–13, 1944
Map 26: Cutting off the Cotentin – June 10–18, 1944
Map 27: Festung Cherbourg
Map 28: The Advance on Cherbourg – June 19–21, 1944
Map 29: The Attack on Cherbourg – June 22–26, 1944
Map 30: First Allied Moves on Caen
Map 31: Villers-Bocage – June 12–14, 1944
Map 32: Planned Panzer Offensive, June 22, 1944
Map 33: Operation Epsom – June 25–30, 1944
Map 34: Railway Interdiction on the Normandy Front – June 1944
Map 35: Operation Charnwood and the Capture of Caen
Map 36: The Battle of the Hedgerows Begins – July 3–11, 1944
Map 37: German Hedgerow Defenses – July 1944
Map 38: The Battle for St-Lô – July 14–20, 1944
Map 39: Operation Goodwood – July 18, 1944
Map 40: Strategic Situation in Normandy – July 2–24, 1944
Map 41: The Operation Cobra Plan
Map 42: Operation Cobra Breakthrough – July 25–30, 1944
Map 43: Operation Bluecoat – July 30, 1944
Map 44: On the Eve of Breakout – July 31, 1944
Map 45: Race into Brittany – August 1944
Map 46: Operation Lüttich – August 7, 1944
Map 47: Operation Totalize, Phase I – August 7–8, 1944
Map 48: Operation Totalize, Phase II – August 8–11, 1944
Map 49: Operation Tractable – August 14–16, 1944
Map 50: The Strategic Situation in Normandy in Early August 1944
Map 51: The German Predicament – August 16, 1944
Map 52: The Collapse of the Falaise Pocket – August 18–19, 1944
Map 53: Closing the Falaise Pocket – August 18–21, 1944
Map 54: The US Army Advance to the Seine – August 19–24, 1944
Map 55: The Advance on Paris – August 23–24, 1944
Map 56: Operation Dragoon – August 15, 1944
Map 57: The Rhône Triangle – August 20–25, 1944
Map 58: Liberation of Marseilles – August 20–27, 1944
Map 59: The Pursuit to Lyon – August 29 to September 3, 1944
Map 60: The German Rout in France – August 1944
CHAPTER 3: THE BATTLES ALONG THE GERMAN FRONTIER, SEPTEMBER–DECEMBER 1944
Map 61: The Void: Pursuit to the German Frontier – August 26 to September 11, 1944
Map 62: Clearing the Channel Ports – September 1944
Map 63: Airborne Options – June–September 1944
Map 64: Operation Market Garden: the Plan
Map 65: German Dispositions in the Netherlands – September 16, 1944
Map 66: 101st Airborne Division Landings – September 17–18,1944
Map 67: 82nd Airborne Division Landings – September 17–18, 1944
Map 68: The Arnhem Landing Plan – September 17, 1944
Map 69: The Advance of XXX Corps on Hell's Highway – September 17–25, 1944
Map 70: The End at Arnhem Bridge – September 20–25, 1944
Map 71: The End of Market Garden – September 26, 1944
Map 72: The Strategic Debate – Autumn 1944
Map 73: Westwall Defenses in the Aachen Sector
Map 74: The First Battle of Aachen: Stolberg Corridor – September 12–29, 1944
Map 75: Aachen: the Northern Attack – October 2–8, 1944
Map 76: The Battle for Aachen – October 7–20, 1944
Map 77: The Hürtgen Forest – October–December 1944
Map 78: Operation Queen: XIX Corps – November 16 to December 9, 1944
Map 79: The Final Push: VII Corps Reaches the Roer – December 10–16, 1944
Map 80: Conflicting Plans in Lorraine – September 1944
Map 81: Third US Army along the Moselle – September 5–11, 1944
Map 82: XII Corps Bridgeheads near Nancy – September 1944
Map 83: Lorraine: the Strategic Situation – September 25, 1944
Map 84: Encirclement of Metz – November 9–19, 1944
Map 85: Operation Madison – November 8 to December 19, 1944
Map 86: 6th Army Group's Advance on the Rhine – November 14 to December 16, 1944
Map 87: Opening the Scheldt – October 6 to November 3, 1944
Map 88: Clearing the Scheldt: Operation Infatuate
Map 89: The Fall of Walcheren – November 3–8, 1944
Map 90: Red Ball Express – September 1944 to February 1945
Map 91: Autumn Frustrations – September 15 to December 15, 1944
CHAPTER 4: THE ARDENNES CAMPAIGN, DECEMBER 1944 TO JANUARY 1945 201
Map 92: The Strategic Situation – December 16, 1944
Map 93: Initial Attacks of 6.Panzer-Armee – December 16–19, 1944
Map 94: Kampfgruppe Peiper – December 20–25, 1944
Map 95: Destruction of 106th Infantry Division – December 16–19, 1944
Map 96: The Defense of St-Vith
Map 97: Attack in the Center: 5.Panzer-Armee vs. the 28th Division
Map 98: Attack in the South: 7.Armee vs. XII Corps
Map 99: Bastogne – December 19–23, 1944
Map 100: Patton's Relief of Bastogne – December 22–26, 1944
Map 101: Eliminating the Bulge – January 3–28, 1945
Map 102: Operation Nordwind – December 31, 1944
Map 103: Operation Sonnenwende – January 5–12, 1945
Map 104: The Battle of Haguenau – January 6–21, 1945
Map 105: Operation Cheerful: Strangling the Colmar Pocket – January 19 to February 9, 1945
CHAPTER 5: BATTLES FOR THE ROER AND RHINE, FEBRUARY–MARCH 1945
Map 106: Allied Plans following the Battle of the Bulge – February 1945
Map 107: West-Stellung – February 1945
Map 108: Operation Veritable – February 8, 1945
Map 109: Operation Blockbuster – February 1945
Map 110: Operation Grenade – February 23 to March 10, 1945
Map 111: Closing on the Rhine – February 8 to March 10, 1945
CHAPTER 6: ENDGAME AGAINST THE THIRD REICH, APRIL–MAY 1945
Map 112: The Strategic Situation in the West – March 1945
Map 113: The Rhine Rat Race – March 12–21, 1945
Map 114: The Rhine Crossings in the South – March 22–28, 1945
Map 115: Operation Plunder – March 23–24, 1945
Map 116: Operation Varsity – March 24, 1945
Map 117: Operation Flashpoint – March 24, 1945
Map 118: Breakout from Remagen – March 25–28, 1945
Map 119: The Strategic Situation – March 28, 1945
Map 120: Encircling the Ruhr – March–April 1945
Map 121: Reduction of the Ruhr Pocket – April 1–18, 1945
Map 122: The Liberation of the Netherlands – April–May, 1945
Map 123: Advance into Northern Germany – April–May 1945
Map 124: Advance to the Elbe – April 1945
Map 125: Advance in the South – April 24 to May 11, 1945
Map 126: The Final Campaign in Germany – April–May 1945
Map 127: Hitler's Last Defenses in France – 1944–45
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