D-Day_ The Battle for Normandy - Antony Beevor [282]
Omaha beach (map)
assault plan
battle for
bombardment
build-up of forces
casualties
combat demolition units
shock casualties
supplies through
Ondefontaine
Operation Anvil see Operation Dragoon
Operation Atlantic
Operation Bagration
Operation Bluecoat (map)
Operation Charnwood
Operation Cobra
bombing operations
breakout
breakthrough (map)
casualties
Operation Copperhead
Operation Cork
Operation Dragoon
arguments over
Operation Epsom (map)
Operation Foxley
Operation Glimmer
Operation Goodwood (map)
casualties
over-optimism
planning
Operation Jupiter
Operation Lüttich
Operation Neptune
Operation Overlord
Operation Spring
Operation Taxable
Operation Titanic
Operation Totalize (map)
Operation Tractable
Operation Transportation
Operation Windsor
Oppeln-Bronikowski, Oberst Hermann v.
ORA (Organisation de Résistance de l’Armée)
Oradour-sur-Glane
Orléans
Ormel, Mont
Orne, river
OSS (Office of Strategic Services)
Ostendorff, Brigadeführer Werner
Otway, Lt Col Terence
Ouistreham
Paris
andJuly plot
advance on
Allied entry into
American intention to bypass
de Gaulle’s victory procession
German forces in
German surrender
liberation of
uprising
Parodi, Alexandre
Partridge, Sgt
Passy, Col (André de Wavrin)
Patton, Gen George S.
and theArmored Division
advance
arrival in France
and Bradley
and Brittany
on civil life
command of ‘1st US Army Group’
at Dreux
and Eisenhower
and the Falaise-Argentan gap
funeral of Brig Gen Roosevelt
given command of VIII Corps
and Leclerc
logistics
and Montomery
and Operation Cobra
and Paris
Patton’s ‘Household Cavalry’
and Saint-Lô
on self-inflicted wounds
Third Army becomes operational
Pays d’Auge
Pemsel, GenMaj Max
Percy
Périers
Périers ridge
Perrier ridge
Peterson, Pte Harold E.
Piaf, Edith
Pickert, GenLt Wolfgang
Pinçon, Mont
Plan Fortitude
Plan Ironside
Podewils, Clemens Graf
Pogue, Forrest C.
Pointe du Hoc
Pointe et Raz de la Percée
Polish Army
1st Armd Div
10th Cavalry Bde
10th Dragoons
10th Mounted Rifles
12th Dragoons
24th Lancers
Polish Navy
ORP Blyskewica
ORP Dragon
ORP Krakowiak
ORP Piorun
ORP Slazak
Pontaubault bridge
Pont-Hébert
Pont-l’Evêque
Popov, Dusko
Portal, ACM Sir Charles
Port-en-Bessin
Prisoners of war
the airborne assault
Allied illegal killings
battle of the bocage
Cherbourg
Falaise Pocket
the Kommandobefehl
Omaha beach
Operation Cobra
Operation Goodwood
Operation Totalize
rations
Sword beach
treatment of
war crimes accusations by
Proctor, Cpl.
Pujol, Juan (‘Garbo’)
Putz, Cmdt
Pyle, Ernie
Quesada, Lt Gen Elwood R. (‘Pete’)
Rambouillet
Ramcke, Gen d. Fallschirmtruppe Hermann
Ramsay, Admiral Sir Bertram
Ranville
Rauray
Red Army
Reichert, GenLt Joseph
Reichsarbeitsdienst, the
Remer, Maj Otto
Rennes
Resistance (French)
in Brittany
cynicism about
and de Gaulle
German reprisals
and Operation Cobra
and Operation Dragoon
Patton on
strength
treatment of POWs
Vercors
Résistance Fer
Ribbentrop, Obersturmführer Rudolf v.
Robehomme
Roberts, Maj Gen ‘Pip’
Rol-Tanguy, Col Henri
Romagny
Rome
Rommel, GFM Erwin
and the coastal defences
headquarters
and Kluge
learns of landings
and the Luftwaffe
Margival conference
meeting with Geyr
and Operation Goodwood
orders Carentan counterattack
plan to reinforce the Channel
possible negotiations with Allies
return to Normandy
row with Geyr
and Saint-Lô
supply lines
tactics
and threat of British Second Army
Roncey
Roosevelt, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Brig Gen Teddy Jr
Rose, Brig Gen Maurice
Rouen
Royal Air Force
and airfields in Normandy
and the Mortain counterattack
Royal Air Force, Groups
19 Group
83 Group
Royal Air Force, Wings
121 Wing
123 Wing
Royal Air Force, Squadrons
224 Squadron
329 Squadron
346 Guyenne Squadron
347 Tunisie Squadron
617 Squadron
Royal Canadian Navy
HMCS Algonquin
HMCS Sioux
Royal Navy
Royal Navy, Battleships and Monitors
HMS Erebus
HMS Nelson
HMS Ramillies
HMS Roberts
HMS Rodney
HMS Warspite
Royal