Operation Epsom order of battle

Second ArmyWilmot, p. 732

General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey

General Friedrich Dollmann (until 1700 hours 28 June)Reynolds, p. 23

General der Panzertruppe (General of Armoured Troops) Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg (from 1700 hours 28 June)Clark, p. 73

• Projector Brigade 7{{#tag:ref|Projector Brigade 7 was equipped with Nebelwerfers.|group=nb}}
• Projector Brigade 8Clark, p. 97{{#tag:ref|Projector Brigade 7 was equipped with Nebelwerfers.Reynolds, p. 32|group=nb}}

SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp DietrichClark, p. 27

• Corps Troops
• Heavy SS Panzer Battalion 101Clark, p. 28 - SS-Obersturmbannführer Heinz von WesterhagenForty, p. 61{{#tag:ref|Heavy SS Panzer Battalion 101 was equipped with Tiger Is.|group=nb}}
• SS-Artillery Battalion 101Zetterling, p. 120
• Artillery Battalion 992Zetterling, p. 133
• 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend - SS-Standartenführer Kurt Meyer
• SS-Panzer Regiment 12{{#tag:ref|SS-Panzer Regiment 12 was equipped with a mixture of Panzer Mark IV and Mark V Panthers.Clark, p. 25|group=nb}}
• SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 25
• SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 26
• SS-Panzer Artillery Regiment 12
• SS-Reconnaissance Battalion 12
• SS-Anti-Tank Battalion 12
• SS-Projector Battalion 12
• SS-Anti-Aircraft Battalion 12
• SS-Panzer Pioneer Battalion 12
• 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler{{#tag:ref|The vanguard of the LSSAH, Kampfgruppe Frey, arrived at the front on 27 JuneClark, p. 61 and was attached to the 12th SS Panzer.|group=nb}} - SS-Obersturmbannführer Albert Frey
• battlegroup FreyClark, p. 80
• SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 3 (elements)
• SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 4 (elements)
• 21st Panzer DivisionClark, p. 24 - Generalmajor Edgar FeuchtingerFord, p. 14
• One battlegroup{{#tag:ref|One battlegroup of the 21st Panzer Division, based around a tank battalion.Clark, p. 63 The battalion was equipped with a mixture of Panzer Mark IV's and Assault Guns.Clark, p. 64|group=nb}}
• Panzer-Lehr-Division (elements) - Generalleutnant Fritz BayerleinForty, p. 30{{#tag:ref|The Panzer-Lehr-Division was equipped with a mixture of Panzer Mark IV and Mark V Panthers.Clark, p. 26|group=nb}}
• 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich - SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Weidinger{{#tag:ref|Battlegroup Weidinger arrived at the front on 27 June and was attached to the Panzer-Lehr-Division.Meyer, p. 409 On 29 June the battlegroup was transferred to II SS Corps.Reynolds, p. 21|group=nb}}
• Battlegroup Weidinger
• 1st Battalion, 4th SS Panzer-Grenadier Regiment "Der Führer"
• 14th, 15th and 16th (Support) Companies, 4th SS Panzer-Grenadier Regiment "Der Führer"
• 1st Battalion, 3rd SS Panzer-Grenadier Regiment "Deutschland"

SS-Obergruppenführer Paul Hausser (until morning of 29 June)

SS-Obergruppenführer Willi Bittrich (from morning of 29 June)

• 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen - SS-Standartenführer Thomas Müller{{#tag:ref|The 9th SS Panzer Division was equipped with a mixture of Panzer Mark IV, Mark V Panthers and Assault Guns.Clark, pp. 108–109|group=nb}}
• SS-Panzer Regiment 9
• SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 19
• SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 20
• SS-Panzer Artillery Regiment 9
• SS-Reconnaissance Battalion 9
• SS-Anti-Tank Battalion 9
• SS-Anti-Aircraft Battalion 9
• SS-Panzer Pioneer Battalion 9
• 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg - SS-Oberführer Heinz Harmel{{#tag:ref|The 10th SS Panzer Division was equipped with a mixture of Panzer Mark IV and Assault Guns.Clark, pp. 176 and 179|group=nb}}
• SS-Panzer Regiment 10
• SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 21
• SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 22
• SS-Panzer Artillery Regiment 10
• SS-Reconnaissance Battalion 10
• SS-Anti-Aircraft Battalion 10
• SS-Panzer Pioneer Battalion 10

General der Flakartillerie Wolfgang Pickert

• 4th Anti-Aircraft Regiment (88mm Anti-Aircraft and other guns)

• 2nd Panzer Division (elements){{#tag:ref|The 2nd Panzer Division was equipped with Mark V Panthers.|group=nb}}
• One battlegroup based around a tank battalion

• List of orders of battle

;Footnotes

{{Reflist|2|group=nb}}

;Citations

{{Reflist|3}}

• {{cite book| first=Lloyd|last=Clark| series=Battle Zone Normandy| title=Operation Epsom|publisher=The History Press Ltd | year=2004| isbn=0-7509-3008-X}}
• Richard Doherty, Hobart's 79th Armoured Division at War: Invention, Innovation and Inspiration, Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84884-398-1.
• {{cite book| first=Christopher|last=Dunphie| title=The Pendulum of Battle: Operation Goodwood - July 1944|publisher=Leo Cooper Ltd |year=2005| isbn=978-1-84415-278-0}}
• Maj-Gen H. Essame, The 43rd Wessex Division at War 1944–45, London: William Clowes, 1952.
• {{cite web|url=http://www.fireandfury.com/orbats/late43rdwessexhill112.pdf|title=43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division at Hill 112, 10th July 1944|last=fireandfury.com}}
• {{cite book| first=Ken|last=Ford| title=Caen 1944: Montgomery's Breakout Attempt |publisher=Osprey Publishing| year=2004| isbn=1-84176-625-9}}
• {{cite book| first=Ludovic |last=Fortin | title=British Tanks In Normandy|publisher=Histoire & Collections| year=2004| isbn=2-915239-33-9}}
• {{cite book| first=George|last=Forty| series=Battle Zone Normandy| title=Villers Bocage|publisher=Sutton Publishing| year=2004| isbn=0-7509-3012-8}}
• {{cite book| first=G.S.|last=Jackson|author2=Staff, 8 Corps| title=8 Corps: Normandy to the Baltic|publisher=MLRS Books| year=2006| orig-year=1945| isbn=978-1-905696-25-3}}
• Lt-Col H.F. Joslen, Orders of Battle, United Kingdom and Colonial Formations and Units in the Second World War, 1939–1945, London: HM Stationery Office, 1960/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2003, ISBN 1-843424-74-6.
• Lt-Gen H.G. Martin, The History of the Fifteenth Scottish Division 1939–1945, Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1948/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78331-085-2.
• {{cite web|url=http://www.15threcce.org/ScottishLionOnPatrol.html|title=The Scottish Lion on Patrol: Being the story of the 15th Scottish Reconnaissance Regiment 1943-1946|last1=Kemsley|first1=Captain W.|last2=Riesco|first2=Captain M.}}
• Capt the Earl of Rosse & Col E.R. Hill, The Story of the Guards Armoured Division, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1956/Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2017, ISBN 978-1-52670-043-8.
• Tim Saunders, Battleground Europe: Operation Epsom: Normandy, June 1944, Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2003, ISBN 0-85052-954-9.
• {{cite book| first=Hubert|last=Meyer|author-link=Hubert Meyer| title=12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division Volume I|publisher=Stackpole Books| year=2005| isbn=0-8117-3198-7}}
• Don Neal, Guns and Bugles: The Story of the 6th Bn KSLI – 181st Field Regiment RA 1940–1946, Studley: Brewin, 2001, {{ISBN|1-85858-192-3}}.
• {{cite web|url=http://www.ian.a.paterson.btinternet.co.uk/orgartillery.htm#RHA4|title=History of the British 7th Armoured Division: Artillery Regiments That Served With The 7th Armoured Division|last=Paterson|first=Ian A|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814061819/http://www.ian.a.paterson.btinternet.co.uk/orgartillery.htm#RHA4|archive-date=14 August 2007|df=dmy-all}}
• {{cite book|first=Brian|last=Reid|author-link=Brian Reid (historian)|title=No Holding Back|publisher=Robin Brass Studio|year=2005|isbn=1-896941-40-0}}
• {{cite book| first=Michael|last=Reynolds|title=Sons of the Reich: The History of II SS Panzer Corps in Normandy, Arnhem, the Ardennes and on the Eastern Front|publisher=Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors|year= 2002 |isbn=0-9711709-3-2}}
• {{cite book|first=Chester|last=Wilmot|author2=Christopher Daniel McDevitt|title =The Struggle For Europe|publisher=Wordsworth Editions Ltd|year=1997|orig-year=1952|isbn=1-85326-677-9}}
• {{cite book|first=Niklas|last=Zetterling|title =Normandy 1944, German Military Organization, Combat Power and Organizational Effectiveness|publisher=J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, Inc.|year=2000|isbn=0-921991-56-8}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Order Of Battle For Operation Epsom}}

Epsom, Operation

Epsom, Operation

Epsom

Epsom, Operation