Operation Sea Lion order of battle
(Redirected from Operation Sealion Order of Battle)
The German plan for a land invasion of Britain in 1940 during World War II was code-named Operation Sea Lion (Unternehmen Seelöwe in German). This is the order of battle for Operation Sea Lion per the modified German plan produced on August 30, 1940.
German forces
[edit]Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt
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First Wave
- XIII Army Corps — General Heinrich-Gottfried von Vietinghoff genannt Scheel.
17th Infantry Division
35th Infantry Division- Luftwaffe II./14th Flak Regiment
- VII Army Corps — Generaloberst Eugen Ritter von Schobert
1st Mountain Division
7th Infantry Division- Luftwaffe I./26th Flak Regiment
Second Wave
V Army Corps — General Richard Ruoff
XXXXI Army Corps — General der Panzertruppen Georg-Hans Reinhardt
Third Wave
- XIII Army Corps — General Heinrich-Gottfried von Vietinghoff genannt Scheel.
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9th Army — Generaloberst Adolf Strauss
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First Wave
- XXXVIII Army Corps — General Erich von Manstein
VIII Army Corps — General Walter Heitz
Second Wave
- XV Army Corps — Generaloberst Hermann Hoth
Third Wave
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Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
6th Army — Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Reichenau
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British forces
[edit]Home Forces
[edit]General Alan Brooke
Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-General Bernard Paget
38th (Welsh) Infantry Division
21st Army Tank Brigade
IV Corps — Lieutenant-General Francis Nosworthy
- VII Corps — Lieutenant-General Andrew McNaughton of Canada
Northern Command — Lieutenant-General Ronald Forbes Adam
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I Corps — Lieutenant-General Harold Alexander
X Corps — Lieutenant-General William Holmes
- London District — Lieutenant-General Bertram Sergison-Brooke
Eastern Command — Lieutenant-General Laurence Carr
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II Corps — Lieutenant-General Edmund Osborne
XI Corps — Lieutenant-General Hugh Massy
XII Corps — Lieutenant-General Andrew Thorne
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Southern Command — Lieutenant-General Claude Auchinleck
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V Corps — Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery
VIII Corps — Lieutenant-General Harold Franklyn
Australian force in the UK (later 9th Division) — Major General Henry Wynter [1]
18th Australian Infantry Brigade (Southern Command Striking Force)
25th Australian Infantry Brigade
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Western Command — General Robert Gordon-Finlayson
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- Scottish Command — Lieutenant-General Harold Carrington
References
[edit]- ^ "9th Division". Second World War, 1939–1945 units. Australian War Memorial. Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2010.