D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

relations with Frenchsee also Looting

AMGOT (Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories)

Amiens

Amis, Kingsley

Andrew, Lt Tom

Angers

Argentan

Arletty (Leonie Bathiat)

Arnim, Lt Dankwart Graf v.

Arromanche

Asnelles

Atlantic Wall

Aulock, GenMaj Hubertus v.

Aunay-sur-Odon

Authie

Avranches

Ay, river

B

Barenton

Barneville

Barton, Maj Gen Raymond O.

Bavent, Bois de

Bayerlein, GenLt Fritz

Bayeux

de Gaulle visits

liberation of

Bayeux tapestry

BBC

Beauvoir, Simone de

Beck, Sdt Eberhard

Beck, GenOb Ludwig

Bedell Smith, Maj Gen Walter

Below, ObLt Nicolaus v.

Benouville

Beny-sur-Mer

Berghof (Berchtesgaden)

Berlichingen, Oberst Freiherr v.

Bernay

Bidault, Georges

Billotte, Col Pierre

Bingham, Maj S. V.

Birks, Col Hammond D.

Bittrich, Gruppenfuhrer

Bletchley Park; see also Ultra intercepts

Blumentritt, Gen der Inf. Gunther

Bocage

artillery observation

battle of the

descriptions

fighting in

lessons of fighting in implemented

Boegner, Pastor Marc

Boineburg-Lengsfeld, GenLt Hans Freiherr v.

Boissieu, Cpte Alain de

Bombing operations

the airborne assault

Caen

Cherbourg

the crossing

Omaha beach

Operation Cobra

Operation Goodwood

Operation Totalize

Operation Tractable

Saint-Lo, 6 June

sealing off invasion area (Operation Transportation)

Villers-Bocage

Bon Sauveur, convent of the

Bordeaux

Botsford, Lt Gardner

Boulogne

Bradley, Gen Omar N.

and Montgomery, Gen Sir Bernard L.

and Patton, Gen George S.

Brecey

Brest

Brest peninsula

Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse

Bretteville-sur-Laize

Breville

British Army

combat exhaustion

conservatism

desertions

infantry shortages

lack of mechanization

manpower crisis

reluctance to help other arms

replacement system

tactics

tank design

tank-infantry cooperation

UK defence force

war-weariness

British Army, 21st Army Group

British Army, Armies

Second Army

Eighth Army

British Army, Corps