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26th Panzer Division 396;
48th Panzer Division 522–3
Panzer groups: 1st Panzer Group 56, 60, 159, 166, 170, 175;
2nd Panzer Group 57, 72, 165, 167, 170, 171, 175;
3rd Panzer Group 167, 171, 175;
4th Panzer Group 171;
Panzer Group Eberbach 487;
Panzer Group West 487
Panzer tanks: Mark I 525;
Mark II 525;
Mark III 182, 422, 525, 526;
Mark IV 181, 422, 525, 526;
Mark V 525
Papagos, General Alexander 124
Papon, Maurice 78
Papua New Guinea 210, 252
Paradis, Le, Pas-de-Calais 64
Paris: deportation of Jews from 78;
French government leaves 70;
German occupation 72, 79, 84;
Hitler’s tour of 91, 180;
Hôtel Majestic 77;
liberation of 487–90, 491;
Panthéon 83;
refugees flee 58, 70;
Vélodrome d’Hiver 78
Park, Air Vice-Marshall Keith 105
Pas de Calais 463, 464, 468, 470, 471, 477, 594
Patton, General George S. Jr: and Allied advance into Germany 497, 499, 502, 514, 550;
background and character 211, 303–4, 313, 377–8, 499, 509;
and battle of the Bulge 506–9;
Italian campaign 313, 376, 377–8;
Normandy campaign 463, 468, 486, 487, 488–9;
North African campaigns 303–5, 308, 312–13;
relations with other generals 304–5, 313, 508–9, 514, 602
Paul, Prince Regent of Yugoslavia 124
Paulus, Field Marshal Friedrich:
battle of Stalingrad 249, 314, 319, 328–9, 333, 335–7, 338–42, 409, 520, 601;
capture 342, 343;
created field marshal 342
Pavlov, D. V. 172
Pavlov, General Dmitri 158
Pavlov, Sergeant Jacob 330
Pawsey, Charles 272
Pax Americana 604
Payne, Signalman (at Dunkirk evacuation) 65
Pearl Harbor 185, 252, 256;
Japanese attack on (December 1941) 133, 185–6, 188–93, 194, 214, 564;
US Pacific Fleet transferred to 187, 189
Peenemünde 441, 517, 586
Pegasus Bridge 470, 471
Peleliu 573
Pena river 415
Penney, William, Baron 576
Penney, Major-General W. R. C. 396
Pennsylvania, USS 191
Percival, Lieutenant-general Arthur 202–3, 205, 206–7
Persia 126, 128, 285; see also Iran
Persian Gulf 132
Perugia 403
Pesaro 403
Pescara 384
Petacci, Clara 405, 406
Pétain, Marshal Philippe:
background and career 58, 71, 73, 80;
and North African campaigns 306;
reputation 79, 81;
rule in Vichy 77–8, 79–82
Petard, HMS 368
Peter II, King of Yugoslavia 124
Petrishchevo 159
Petsamo 29, 30, 34
Philip II, King of Spain 86
Philippines: American bases 187, 208, 209;
Japanese atrocities in 209, 278–9;
Japanese attacks on 193;
Japanese invasion 201, 207, 208–9, 214;
United States recapture 565, 566, 567
Phillips, N. C. 387
Phillips, Leading Aircraftman Norman 475
Phillips, Admiral Sir Tom 202
Phoney War 35, 37, 53
phosgene gas 568
photo-reconnaissance 348, 416, 433
Pidgeon, Walter 105
Pienaar, Major-General Dan 290
Pillau 549
Pinbon 264
Piotrów 28
Pipeline Under The Ocean (PLUTO) 464, 606
Pius XII, Pope 390–91, 483
Placentia Bay Conference (‘Riviera’; August 1941) 129–31, 214, 364
Plan D 53, 56
Plan Red 51–2, 70
Plan White 16, 18, 20, 21
Plan Yellow 48–9
Ploesti oilfields 124, 381
Plunder, Operation 514
Plunkett, USS 396
PLUTO (Pipeline Under The Ocean) 464, 606
Plymouth 102, 103, 576
Po Valley 403, 404
Pohl, SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald 236
Pointblank, Operation 439–40
Pointe du Hoc 476
Poland: armed forces 21, 23, 24, 43, 44;
Catholic Church 390;
decryption of German radio traffic 347, 348, 349;
deportation of Poles to concentration camps 538;
emigration 574;
German invasion 9, 10, 15, 16–24, 25–7, 52, 242, 580;
German–Polish non-agression treaty (1934) 9, 17;
government in exile 26;
Government-General 77, 163;
Jews in 27, 28–9, 221, 223–4, 241, 243–4, 245, 536;
massacre of ethnic Germans 23;
partition of 26–7, 383;
Polish servicemen in Allied forces 107, 385, 400, 502;
polonisation 77;
post-war 561, 578;
Russian invasions 25, 26–7, 154, 162, 528, 532, 534, 538, 542;
Warsaw Uprising (1944) 245, 248, 489, 534, 536–9
Polish Corridor 17, 18–19, 23
Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) 245, 536
Polish Independent Brigade Group 502
polonisation 77
Polotsk 528
Poltava, battle of (1709) 180
Polyarnoe 364
Pomerania 554
Pomorze Army (Polish) 23, 24