GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION Map 1: The European Theater of Operations - June 1944 to May 1945 Map 2: The Strategic Debate - 1942-44 Map 3: Precursors to Overlord - 1942-44 Map 4: German Assessment of Allied Divisions in the UK - May 31, 1944 Map 5: The Atlantic Wall in France - 1944 CHAPTER 1: THE INVASION FRONT, JUNE 6, 1944 Map 6: Routes to the D-Day Invasion Beaches Map 7: Naval Bombardment on D-Day Map 8: Western Task Force's Assault on D-Day Map 9: German Defenses on the Cotentin Peninsula - June 6, 1944 Map 10: US Airborne Landings - June 6, 1944 Map 11: Utah Beach - June 6-7, 1944 Map 12: Pointe du Hoc - June 6, 1944 Map 13: Assault Landing Plan, Western Side, Omaha Beach Map 14: German Defenses on Omaha Beach Map 15: D-Day Operations on Omaha Beach - June 6, 1944 Map 16: The Eastern Task Force Map 17: German Defenses on Gold Beach Map 18: Gold Beach on D-Day Map 19: German Defenses on Juno Beach Map 20: The Canadians at Juno Beach Map 21: German Defenses on Sword Beach Map 22: British 6th Airborne Division Landings Map 23: Amphibious Landings on Sword Beach Map 24: The British Lodgment Area - Night, June 6, 1944 CHAPTER 2: THE BATTLE FOR FRANCE, JUNE-AUGUST 1944 Map 25: The Battle for Carentan - June 10-13, 1944 Map 26: Cutting off the Cotentin - June 10-18, 1944 Map 27: Festung Cherbourg Map 28: The Advance on Cherbourg - June 19-21, 1944 Map 29: The Attack on Cherbourg - June 22-26, 1944 Map 30: First Allied Moves on Caen Map 31: Villers-Bocage - June 12-14, 1944 Map 32: Planned Panzer Offensive, June 22, 1944 Map 33: Operation Epsom - June 25-30, 1944 Map 34: Railway Interdiction on the Normandy Front - June 1944 Map 35: Operation Charnwood and the Capture of Caen Map 36: The Battle of the Hedgerows Begins - July 3-11, 1944 Map 37: German Hedgerow Defenses - July 1944 Map 38: The Battle for St-Lo - July 14-20, 1944 Map 39: Operation Goodwood - July 18, 1944 Map 40: Strategic Situation in Normandy - July 2-24, 1944 Map 41: The Operation Cobra Plan Map 42: Operation Cobra Breakthrough - July 25-30, 1944 Map 43: Operation Bluecoat - July 30, 1944 Map 44: On the Eve of Breakout - July 31, 1944 Map 45: Race into Brittany - August 1944 Map 46: Operation Luttich - August 7, 1944 Map 47: Operation Totalize, Phase I - August 7-8, 1944 Map 48: Operation Totalize, Phase II - August 8-11, 1944 Map 49: Operation Tractable - August 14-16, 1944 Map 50: The Strategic Situation in Normandy in Early August 1944 Map 51: The German Predicament - August 16, 1944 Map 52: The Collapse of the Falaise Pocket - August 18-19, 1944 Map 53: Closing the Falaise Pocket - August 18-21, 1944 Map 54: The US Army Advance to the Seine - August 19-24, 1944 Map 55: The Advance on Paris - August 23-24, 1944 Map 56: Operation Dragoon - August 15, 1944 Map 57: The Rhone Triangle - August 20-25, 1944 Map 58: Liberation of Marseilles - August 20-27, 1944 Map 59: The Pursuit to Lyon - August 29 to September 3, 1944 Map 60: The German Rout in France - August 1944 CHAPTER 3: THE BATTLES ALONG THE GERMAN FRONTIER, SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 1944 Map 61: The Void: Pursuit to the German Frontier - August 26 to September 11, 1944 Map 62: Clearing the Channel Ports - September 1944 Map 63: Airborne Options - June-September 1944 Map 64: Operation Market Garden: the Plan Map 65: German Dispositions in the Netherlands - September 16, 1944 Map 66: 101st Airborne Division Landings - September 17-18,1944 Map 67: 82nd Airborne Division Landings - September 17-18, 1944 Map 68: The Arnhem Landing Plan - September 17, 1944 Map 69: The Advance of XXX Corps on Hell's Highway - September 17-25, 1944 Map 70: The End at Arnhem Bridge - September 20-25, 1944 Map 71: The End of Market Garden - September 26, 1944 Map 72: The Strategic Debate - Autumn 1944 Map 73: Westwall Defenses in the Aachen Sector Map 74: The First Battle of Aachen: Stolberg Corridor - September 12-29, 1944 Map 75: Aachen: the Northern Attack - October 2-8, 1944 Map 76: The Battle for Aachen - October 7-20, 1944 Map 77: The Hurtgen Forest - October-December 1944 Map 78: Operation Queen: XIX Corps - November 16 to December 9, 1944 Map 79: The Final Push: VII Corps Reaches the Roer - December 10-16, 1944 Map 80: Conflicting Plans in Lorraine - September 1944 Map 81: Third US Army along the Moselle - September 5-11, 1944 Map 82: XII Corps Bridgeheads near Nancy - September 1944 Map 83: Lorraine: the Strategic Situation - September 25, 1944 Map 84: Encirclement of Metz - November 9-19, 1944 Map 85: Operation Madison - November 8 to December 19, 1944 Map 86: 6th Army Group's Advance on the Rhine - November 14 to December 16, 1944 Map 87: Opening the Scheldt - October 6 to November 3, 1944 Map 88: Clearing the Scheldt: Operation Infatuate Map 89: The Fall of Walcheren - November 3-8, 1944 Map 90: Red Ball Express - September 1944 to February 1945 Map 91: Autumn Frustrations - September 15 to December 15, 1944 CHAPTER 4: THE ARDENNES CAMPAIGN, DECEMBER 1944 TO JANUARY 1945 201 Map 92: The Strategic Situation - December 16, 1944 Map 93: Initial Attacks of 6.Panzer-Armee - December 16-19, 1944 Map 94: Kampfgruppe Peiper - December 20-25, 1944 Map 95: Destruction of 106th Infantry Division - December 16-19, 1944 Map 96: The Defense of St-Vith Map 97: Attack in the Center: 5.Panzer-Armee vs. the 28th Division Map 98: Attack in the South: 7.Armee vs. XII Corps Map 99: Bastogne - December 19-23, 1944 Map 100: Patton's Relief of Bastogne - December 22-26, 1944 Map 101: Eliminating the Bulge - January 3-28, 1945 Map 102: Operation Nordwind - December 31, 1944 Map 103: Operation Sonnenwende - January 5-12, 1945 Map 104: The Battle of Haguenau - January 6-21, 1945 Map 105: Operation Cheerful: Strangling the Colmar Pocket - January 19 to February 9, 1945 CHAPTER 5: BATTLES FOR THE ROER AND RHINE, FEBRUARY-MARCH 1945 Map 106: Allied Plans following the Battle of the Bulge - February 1945 Map 107: West-Stellung - February 1945 Map 108: Operation Veritable - February 8, 1945 Map 109: Operation Blockbuster - February 1945 Map 110: Operation Grenade - February 23 to March 10, 1945 Map 111: Closing on the Rhine - February 8 to March 10, 1945 CHAPTER 6: ENDGAME AGAINST THE THIRD REICH, APRIL-MAY 1945 Map 112: The Strategic Situation in the West - March 1945 Map 113: The Rhine Rat Race - March 12-21, 1945 Map 114: The Rhine Crossings in the South - March 22-28, 1945 Map 115: Operation Plunder - March 23-24, 1945 Map 116: Operation Varsity - March 24, 1945 Map 117: Operation Flashpoint - March 24, 1945 Map 118: Breakout from Remagen - March 25-28, 1945 Map 119: The Strategic Situation - March 28, 1945 Map 120: Encircling the Ruhr - March-April 1945 Map 121: Reduction of the Ruhr Pocket - April 1-18, 1945 Map 122: The Liberation of the Netherlands - April-May, 1945 Map 123: Advance into Northern Germany - April-May 1945 Map 124: Advance to the Elbe - April 1945 Map 125: Advance in the South - April 24 to May 11, 1945 Map 126: The Final Campaign in Germany - April-May 1945 Map 127: Hitler's Last Defenses in France - 1944-45 FURTHER READING
