The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (194 page)

Marlene Dietrich and

media and

meets First Army, in advance to Germany

Merkers treasure and

Metz and

Montgomery and

NORDWIND
and

OVERLORD
and

personality of

pozit shell and

rescue of son-in-law attempted by

Rhine advance by

Rhine crossing and

Ruhr and

Siegried Line and

son of

victory position of

Vosges and Alsace campaign and

Pearl Harbor

Peenemünde project.
See also
V-1 rocket; V-2 rocket

Peiper, Lt. Col. Joachim

PENGUIN
, Operation

Périers road

Périers-sur-le-Dan

Pershing, Gen. John J.

Philippines

Philips company

Picasso, Pablo

Pilgrim’s Progress, The
(Bunyan)

Pilzen

PINWE (“Problems of the Invasion of Northwest Europe”)

Pissaro, Camille

Plainsman, The
(film)

Plan 4–44

Plokhy, S. M.

PLUNDER
, Operation

PLUTO (Pipeline Underwater Transport of Oil)

Pogue, Sgt. Forrest C.

poison gas

Poland

Yalta and

Polish 1st Armored Division

Polish 10th Dragoons

Polish armed forces

POWs

Porch, Douglas

Po River

Portal, Air Chief Marshal Charles F. A.

potassium mines

Poteau

Pouppeville

pozit shells (VT device)

Pratt, Brig. Gen. Don F.

“Preparation for Overseas Movement” (booklet)

Preston, Corp. William

Prettyman, Arthur

Priester, Marion

prostitution

Puerto Rico

Pyle, Ernie

Quebec Conference

QUEEN
, Operation

Queen Elizabeth
(British ocean liner)

Queen Mary
(British ocean liner)

Queen of Angels
(airplane)

Quesada, Maj. Gen. Elwood “Pete”

Quiberon Bay

Quincy
, U.S.S.

racial segregation

radar jamming

radio communications

Radio Luxembourg

Radio Stuttgart

railroads

Ramsay, Adm. Sir Bertram H.

Rapido River, Battle of

Rasp, Gen. Siegfried

Rastatt, Rhine crossing at

Rebecca
(du Maurier)

Red Army

Anglo-American forces meet, in Germany

atrocities and

Berlin and

casualties and

Czechoslovakia and

Denmark and

Germans flee

Oder River and

Poland and

victory position of

Red Army 173rd Rifle Regiment

Red Army 175th Rifle Regiment

Red Ball Express

Red Cross

Red List plan

Reims

German surrender at

SHAEF HQ at

Reinhardt, Maj. Gen. Emil F.

Remagen, Rhine crossing at

Rembrandt

Rennes

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste

Retonfey, Third Army wings meet at

Reuters

Rheinberg, Churchill, Eisenhower, Bradley and Simpson meeting at

Rhineland, French occupation zone in

Rhine-Marne Canal

Rhine River.
See also
Neder Rijn

Allied advance on

Allies cross, at Remagen

Allies reach

Antwerp and Aachen and

Bulge and

campaign in Germany after crossing

Churchill and crossing of

Colmar Pocket and

crossing delayed, to sweep west of

Devers’ crossing at Rastatt, rejected by Eisenhower

French cross

German retreat from

Malta and

MARKET GARDEN
and

Montgomery and

NORDWIND
and

Patton crosses, at Oppenheim

QUEEN
and

Roer and

Siegfriend Line and

Stolberg crossing and

Strasbourg and

VARSITY PLUNDER
and

VERITABLE
and
GRENADE
and

Vosges campaign and

Yalta and

Rhine River Flood Prediction Service

Rhône River

Ribbentrop, Joachim von

Ridgway, Maj. Gen. Matthew B.

Riding High
(film)

Ritchie, Lt. Gen. Neil

river-crossing schools

Roberts, Maj. Gen. G. P. B. “Pip”

Robertson, Lt. William D.

Robert the Magnificent, Duke of Normandy

Roer River

Rol, Colonel

Roland, Capt. Charles P.

Romania

Ploesti oil facilities at

postwar

Rome

ancient

Battle of

Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin

Atlantic Wall and

Caen and

Cherbourg and

D-Day and

Hitler and

near death of, and return to Germany

Normandy and

OVERLORD
and

separate peace and

suicide of

Rommel, Lucie-Maria

Rommel Belt

Roosevelt, Anna (daughter of FDR)

Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler Alexander “Bunny” (wife of Theodore, Jr.)

Roosevelt, Eleanor (wife of FDR)

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Churchill and

death of

De Gaulle and

DRAGOON
and

Eisenhower and

final days of war and

Hitler and

liberation of Paris and

Malta and

manpower shortages and

OVERLORD
and

Pacific and

postwar plan of

shift from Berlin to southeast route and

Soviet Union and

Suez meetings and

UN and

unconditional surrender and

Yalta and

Roosevelt, Quentin (son of Ted, Jr.)

Roosevelt, Brig. Gen. Theodore, Jr., “Ted”

death of

Medal of Honor and

OVERLORD
and

personality of

Roosevelt, Theodore (president and father of Ted, Jr.)

Rose, Maj. Gen. Maurice

Rostock, bombing of

Rotterdam

Rouen

Rubens, Peter Paul

Ruge, Vice Adm. Friedrich

Ruhr

advance toward

bombing of

Eisenhower vs. Montgomery on thrust toward

encircling of (Ruhr Pocket)

HERBSTNEBEL
and

postwar plan for

VARSITY PLUNDER
and

VERITABLE
and
GRENADE
and

Yalta and

RUMPELKAMMER
, Operation 107

Rundstedt, Field Marshal Gerd von

Aachen and

Allies reach Rhine and

Bulge and

January 1945 position of

Normandy invasion and

relieved of command

Remagen and

restored to command to defend Siegfried Line

Rommel and

Russo-Japanese War

Ryan, Cornelius

Saarbrücken

Saar-Palatinate

Saar River, Third Army reaches

Saar Valley

Sadzot, Battle of

Saipan

Salerno campaign

Salm River

Salzburg

Samuel Chase
, U.S.S.

San Pietro, Battle of

Sarrebourg

Saudi Arabia

Savannah
, U.S.S.

Saverne Gap

Scannell, Vernon

Schaeffer, Gen. Hans

Scharnhorst Line

Scheldt River, Battle of the

Schill Line

Schlemm, Gen. Alfred

Schleswig-Holstein

Schlieben, Gen. Karl-Wilhelm von

Schmidt

Battle of

Schnee Eifel

Battle and surrender at

Schönberg

Schwammenauel dam

Schwerin, Gen. Gerhard Graf von

SEA LION
plan

Sebald, W. G.

Seeger, Alan

Seine, Bay of the

Seine River

Sélune River

Sevareid, Eric

Sevastopol

Seven Years War

SHAEF.
See
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

Shakespeare, William

Shapiro, Karl

Shaw, George Bernard

Shaw, Irwin

Shirer, William

Short Guide to Great Britain, A

Sibert, Brig. Gen. Edwin L.

Sicilian campaign

Siegen, looted treasures in

Siegfried Line (West Wall)

Aachen and

Allies reach

Bulge and

campaign of 1944 at

First Army breaches, at Stolberg

Hürtgen and

January 1945 positions and

MARKET GARDEN
and

mines in

Patton and

Rhine crossing and

Strasbourg and

Silesia

Simonds, Lt. Gen. Guy

Simpson, Louis

Simpson, Lt. Gen. William H.

final days of war and

German surrender and

Roer and

Skorzeny, Otto

Slapton Sands calamity

slave labor

Slovik, Antoinette

Slovik, Eddie D.

Smith, Al

Smith, Lt. Col. Baldwin B.

Smith, Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell “Beetle”

Bulge and

bombing of Germany and

Devers and

Eisenhower and

German surrender and

Malta and

MARKET GARDEN
and

Montgomery and

Patton and

Rhine crossing and

Strasbourg and

Smuts, Jan

Snow, C. P.

Somme River

“Song of the Bayonet, The” (Patton)

Sosabowski, Gen. Stanislaw

southern France.
See also
DRAGOON
;
and specific locations

Soviet Union.
See also
Red Army; Stalin, Joseph

Alliance with

Allied forces meeting in Germany and

Berlin and

Budapest and

casualties and

Churchill and

Eastern Europe and

Eisenhower and

FDR and

German concentration camps and

German conscripts from

German fear of

German invasion of

German retreat from

German surrender and

HERBSTNEBEL
and

Hitler’s defeat and

Model and

oil and

Pacific war and

Poland and

postwar German occupation zone and

POWs

summer offensive of 1944

UN and

V-E Day and

women kidnapped by Germans

Yalta and

Spa

Bulge and

First Army HQ at

Spaatz, Lt. Gen. Carl A. “Tooey”

Speer, Albert

Spender, Stephen

Stagg, Capt. J. M.

Stalag 17B

Stalin, Joseph

death of Hitler and

Elbe and

Red Army meeting with Western Allies and

V-E Day and

Yalta and

Stalingrad, Battle of

Staller, Bernie

Stars and Stripes

State Department

Stauffenberg, Col. Claus von

Stavelot fuel dump

St.-Barthélemy crossroads

St.-Côme-du-Mont

St.-Cyr

St.-Dié

Stein, Gertrude

Steinbeck, John

Ste.-Marie-du-Mont

Ste.-Mère-Église

St.-Gilles

Stiles, Bert

Stiller, Maj. Alexander C.

Stimson, Henry L.

St.-Lambert

St.-Lô

St.-Malo

St.-Mandrier

St.-Marcouf

Stolberg

Stormy Weather
(film)

Stoumont, Battle of

St.-Privat, Fort

Strachner, Myra A.

Strasbourg

retreat resisted by French

Strasbourg, University of

Strong, Maj. Gen. Kenneth W. D.

St.-Tropez

Student, Gen. Kurt

Stuttgart

bombing of

capture of

St.-Vith, Battle of

Sudentenland

“Summaries of the Military Use of the Roer River Reservoir System” (Army Corps of Engineers)

Summersby, Kay

Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF)

Antwerp and

army discipline and

becomes USFET

bombing of Germany and

Bradley vs. Montgomery and

Bulge and

Bushy Park and

casualties and

Cherbourg and

Churchill and

combat exhaustion and

De Gaulle and

Devers and

Eisenhower and

Eisenhower vs. Montgomery and

final days of war and

fraternization and

French and

German atomic program and

German officers and

German postwar governance and

German surrender and

GOODWOOD
and

intelligence and

liberation of Paris and

logistics and

Malta and

manpower shortages and

MARKET GARDEN
and

Merkers treasure and

OVERLORD
and

Paris post-liberation and

Patch and

Patton’s Third Army created by

POW and slave labor camps and

pozit shells and

Red Army and

Reims HQ

Rhine bridges and Alsace campaign

Ruhr and

Saar and

Soviets and

tensions among

valor awards and

V-E Day and

Versailles HQ

winter campaign and

Swartz, Luke S.

Swedish YMCA

Switzerland

Sword Beach

Tannenberg, Battle of

Target: Germany
(U.S. AAF)

Tate Gallery

Taunus Hills

Taylor, Col. George A.

Taylor, Maj. Gen. Maxwell D.

Tedder, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur W.

Teheran Conference

Terence

ter Horst, Kate

Texas
, U.S.S.

T Force intelligence units

Theresienstadt concentration camp