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Authors: Basil Henry Liddell Hart
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Leeb’s, in Russia, 148-9, 159, 166, 245; passes to Kuchler, 245
Rundstedt’s, in Poland, 29-30; breakthrough in Ardennes, 38, 69-70; prepares for invasion of Britain, 89; in Russian campaign, 131-2, 148-9, 159, 165-7; passes to Reichenau, then Bock, 245
A, 148, 245, 249, 574; withdrawal of, from Caucasus, 477-9
‘Afrika’, 410, 413, 415, 425, 431
B, in Russia, 148, 245, 249, 260; in Italy, 455, 470
C, 470, 471
Central, 148, 485, 579-80, 582-4
Don, 148, 263, 477, 574
North Ukraine, 148, 574
Northern, 148, 581-2, 584, 587-8
Panzer, battle of theories on use of, 159-160; in Russia, 161-4, 166; in N. Africa, 192; reorganisation into ‘armies’, 251.
See also under
Army, Panzer
Hoth’s, 164, 166
Kleist’s, in France, 70-2, 84; in Greece, 133-4, 165; in Russia, 165-7
South Ukraine, 148, 574
Armies:
1st, 565
2nd, 84, 134, 249, 480
3rd, 28-31
4th, 28-30; in Russia, 159, 161, 163-4, 579-80; defensive methods of, 496-7
5th, 341
6th, 68, 89; in Russia, 166, 248-9, 251, 255-60, 263; lost in Bessarabia, 585
7th, 565, 649, 653-4, 657
8th, 29-30
9th, 84, 89; in Russia, 159, 161, 163-4, 580
10th, in Poland, 29;
in Italy,
452, 454-5, 459; Rome out of communication with, 455; at Salerno, 455, 459-65; withdraws, 465-6, 468-9; reinforced, 526, 528; attempts to cut off, 528, 535; Herr in command of, 671
11th, 249, 263
12th, 72, 133-5
14th, 29-31; in Italy, 526, 528, 671, 673
15th, 565, 649
16th, 89
17th, in Russia, 249, 253-5, 477-8
Armies, Panzer; decreased speed of, after reorganisation, 251
1st, in Russia, 248-9, 251-3; perils of withdrawal of, 477-8; transferred to Manstein’s army group, 485; trapped E. of Dniester, 574
3rd, 579
4th, in Russia, 249, 251, 256, 260, 263
5th, in Tunisia, 341; in Ardennes offensive, 643, 645-6, 650, 653-8
6th, in Ardennes offensive, 642, 645-6, 650-2, 654-5, 658
Panzerarmee Afrika.
See
Afrika Korps
Parachute:
1st, 559
Corps:
1st S.S, Panzer, 549, 652, 655
2nd S.S. Panzer, 652, 655
3rd Panzer, 491, 570
8th Air, 138
11th Air, 438, 444
14th Panzer, 445, 527-8, 539, 671
15th Panzer, 70, 72, 75, 84
16th Panzer, 68-9
18th Panzer, 653
47th Panzer, 570, 653, 655
51st Mountain, 528, 539, 671
58th Panzer, 653
66th, 653, 656
76th Panzer, 528, 671
80th, 654
90th, 335
Afrika Korps, 118-19; drives British from Cyrenaica, 119-20, 171; attacks Tobruk, 173-4; effective use of AA and anti-tank guns by, 177, 179-81, 188, 195, 267, 271-2; in Operation ‘Battleaxe’, 179-181; in Operation ‘Crusader’, 186-98; at Sidi Rezegh, 188-9; turns back to Tobruk, 194; retreats West, 195-8; losses in, 198; drives British back to Gazala, 266, 268; strength of, at Gazala battle, 269-71; air support for, 270; attacks at Gazala, 272; fails to reach coast-road, 272, 275; tank losses of, 272, 277, 283-4; takes Tobruk, 276-7; at Alamein, 281, 283-9; weariness of, 283-5; at Alam Haifa, 293-7; withdrawal of, gives heart to Eighth Army, 295-6; strength of, at final Alamein, 298; supplies to, sunk in Mediterranean, 299; sickness in, 299; at end of resources, 304; blocks pursuit, 305; finds shelter in Tunisia, 397, 435; becomes First Italian Army, 401, 413; in Kasserine Pass, 407, 409
Balck’s Panzer, 495
Guderian’s Panzer, in France, 65, 70-2, 84; prevented from cutting off B.E.F., 74-5, 80-3; in plan for invasion of Russia, 89; strength. 157; advance of, 161-4; deflected off road to Moscow, 166-7
Reinhardt’s, 72, 75
Parachute, to attack Leningrad, 484
1st, in Italy, 528, 539, 671
Divisions: reduced strength of, 243, 269, 485-6; varying strength of, 526n.; supply scale for, 564
Divisions, Air: 7th, 255
Divisions, Infantry:
65th, 471-2
71st, 534
76th, 539
94th, 534
334th, 424
Divisions, Light: 22, 28
5th, 118; tank regiment of, in N. Africa, 119, 174, 177, 179, 183
90th (Afrika Division), 183, 186, 279-280, 303, 421
164th (Afrika Division), 417-18
Division, Mountain:
5th, 137-8
Divisions, Panzer: brought up to strength, 84; reorganised (1941), 157-8; tank strength of, 403n., 459n., 496; face ‘Overlord’ landings, 546-8; gathered for Ardennes offensive, 642-3
1st, 437, 652, 654; Battle Group Peiper of, 654-5
2nd, 652, 655
3rd, 69
4th, 69
5th, 430
6th, 263
7th (Manteuffel’s), 118, 411, 424, 495
9th, 67, 652, 657-8
10th, in Tunisia, 339n., 341, 403, 406-409, 411-12, 415-16, 421, 425, 429
11th, 652
15th, in Western Desert, 118, 174, 179, 187-94, 279, 284-5, 295, 302, 398, 400; in Tunisia, 412, 417n., 418-19, 421, 429
16th, in Italy, 459, 462-3, 468; sent to Russia, 471
21st, in Western Desert, 183, 186-94, 279, 284, 302, 398, 400-1; in Tunisia, 402-3, 405, 407, 411-12, 417-18, 420-1, 429
26th, in Italy, 459, 464, 471-2, 531
76th, 471
116th, 643
Hermann Goring, in Sicily, 436, 442-443, 445-6; in Italy, 459, 463, 527-8, 535
Lehr, 655
S.S., 491, 583
2nd, 658
Divisions, Panzergrenadier:
3rd, 452, 464
15th, 436, 443, 459, 464, 657
29th, 445, 459, 463, 527-8
90th, 437-8, 470, 472, 527
Division, Parachute: losses of, in Crete, 136-9; in Russia, 255
1st, in Sicily, 444; in Italy, 459, 467-8, 471, 531, 535, 540, 673
2nd, 444, 452
5th, 653, 657
Division, Volksgrenadier:
26th, 655
Division, Waffen S.S., 652
Regiments:
Assault, 138
Glider, 137
Lehr, 530
Parachute, in Tunis, 337
Volkssturm ‘Home Guard’ troops, 668
Battalion: Panzer 190th, 337, 338
n.
Army, Greek, 115, 134-6, 151
Army, Hungarian, in Russia, 247, 249, 251, 259, 480
1st, 587
2nd, 480
Army, Indian, in Malaya, 224, 227; wartime expansion of, 363
Corps:
15th, 365
Divisions:
3rd (so-called), 516
4th, in Western Desert, 113-14, 124, 178, 184, 195-7, 268, 303, 529; in Sudan, 114, 124, 126; in Tunisia, 418, 420-1, 426-7; in Italy, 529-3
5th, in Sudan and Eritrea, 124, 126; in North Africa, 274, 281, 287-8
8th, 467
10th, 671
11th, 227
14th, 365
17th, 234
26th, 365
36th (Indian/British), 635
Brigades:
10th, 125
11th, 276
18th, 281
77th, reorganised as ‘Chindits’, 367-368
Army, Indian Nationalist, under Japanese, 636
Army, Italian, in Greece, 115, 151, 437; in Russia, 247, 259, 263; in Vichy France, 329; in Tunisia, 329, 402-3, 407; in Sicily, 442, 451; escapes to Italy, 445-6; disarmed by Germans, 450, 454; divisions kept near Rome, 452; troops faithful to Mussolini, 542, 670; Combat groups in Allied armies, 670
in East Africa,
109, 112, 121; takes British Somaliland, 124; tough colonial brigade at Metemma, 125; defeated in Eritrea and Ethiopia, 126-7
in North Africa,
109, 112, 195; harassment of, 112; utter defeat of, 113-17, 171, 711; prisoners taken, 113-14, 117, 173; follows German spearhead, 119; in attacks on Tobruk, 173-4; handicaps Rommel, 183; attack on, at Bir el Gubi, 186; at Sidi Rezegh, 189; withdrawal of, 197-8, 398; losses, in ‘Crusader’, 198; unmotorised divisions of, 269, 272; reaches Alamein, 285; surrenders in, 287; lack of sanitation in trenches of, 299
Armies:
1st, 401, 413
8th, 263
11th, 437
Corps: Mobile, 190, 192-3, 196-7, 268, 293
Divisions:
Ariete armoured, 189-91, 194, 284, 302
Centauro armoured, 307, 398, 401, 415
Littorio armoured, 286
Superga, 341
Trieste motorised, 190, 295
90th Light, 293, 295
Battalion:
1st Bersaglieri, 407
Army, Japanese, invades China, 206; in S.W. Pacific, 208-9, 507; aircraft of, 209; weakness of, in Philippines, 222-3; captures Malaya and Singapore, 227-30; captures Burma, 233-6, 343; unwilling to release troops for Navy projects, 343; attacks Papua, 355-6; on Tulagi, 358; effect of Chindit operations on, 368; plans operations in New Guinea, 501; garrisons of, meet invaders in S.W. Pacific Islands, 503-9; strength of (1943), 507; suicidal counterattacks of, 511-12, 520-1, 620-1; exhausts its strength on offensive into India, 513, 520; successfully deals with Chindit air invasion, 517; defends New Guinea, 613-17; defends Philippines, 621, 628-30; defensive task of, in Burma, 633
Area Armies:
2nd, 613, 615
8th, 613
Burma, 633
Armies:
14th, 222, 621
15th, 233-6, 365, 368, 515, 633, 636
17th, 501-2
18th, 501-2, 615
25th, 224, 234
28th, 515, 634, 637, 687
32nd, 683-6
33rd, 515, 635-6, 687
35th, 628
Divisions:
5th, 224-5
18th, 224, 235
31st, 519
56th, 235
Imperial Guards, 224
Army, New Zealand, in Crete, 135, 138-9; under Halsey in S.W. Pacific, 502
Corps: in attack on Mareth Line, 417, 419; in Italy, 529-32, 674
Divisions: in Western Desert, 112; in ‘Crusader’, 184, 187-8, 192, 194-5
2nd, at Mersa Matruh, 278-9; at Alamein, 281, 284-8, 295; in pursuit, 305-7, 398; in Italy, 471, 529-532
Army, Polish, overconfidence of, 12, 21, 27-8; illusions about strength of, 16-18; horsed cavalry of, 20; unrealistic dispositions of, 27-8; defeat of, 28-31
Corps, in Italy, 533-5, 539-40, 671-3
Army, Rumanian, in Russia, 247, 255, 259-260, 574-6; under Malinovsky, 586
Army, Russian (Red Army), in conquest of Poland, 31, 706; in Finland, 44-7, 53, 578; underestimation of strength of, 44, 169; anti-German propaganda to, 144; Hitler orders destruction of, 144, 146; strength in West, 149; initial defeats of, 153; numerical superiority in tanks, 158-9, 165; Germans seek to destroy, by encirclement, 159-60, 162-3; tough resistance from, delays German advance, 162; reinforcement of, 165, 167; ‘militarily unsafe’ commanders of, 165; lack of preparedness shown by, 160; drives Germans back from Moscow, 168; defeats Japanese force in Manchuria, 206; winter counteroffensive of, 241-2; Kharkov offensive of, 248; diminished oil supply of, 251; counteroffensive of, at Stalingrad, 255, 258, 260-5, 478; defends Stalingrad, 256-260; supply shortage becoming less, 257; flexible organisation of Eastern Front of, 261; threatens retreat of Army from Caucasus, 477-8; holding of, at Stalingrad, saves Manstein and Kleist, 479; 1943 offensives launched by, 480-1; improved technique of, 481, 487, 492; transport deficiencies of, 482, 486; driven back by counteroffensive at Donetz salient, 482-3; qualitative and quantitative improvement in supplies to, 486; can subsist where others would starve, 486-7, 571; battering-ram tendency of Generals in, 487; has room for manoeuvre and superiority in numbers, 487-8; considers whether to strike first or wait for attack, 489-90; offensives of, on many fronts, 490-5, 571-3, 579-83; advances limited by overstretch, 569, 573, 584, 668; Manteuffel on advance of, 571; advance checked at Carpathians, 573-5; liberates Crimea, 575-6; Army Groups or ‘fronts’ of, 579; U.S. trucks motorise infantry of, 580, 664-5; fails to support Warsaw uprising, 583; set-back to, 583-4; held up on Vistula line, 584, 663; exploits wide-open flank through central Europe, 585-7; 1945 offensive of, 663-75