50th Infantry, 97, 326, 338,
79th Infantry, 44
INFANTRY BRIGADES
3rd Parachute Brigade, 14, 29, 92–93, 98, 129, 141, 145, 232, 236
6th Airlanding Brigade, 290–91
9th Infantry Brigade, 339
ARMOURED REGIMENTS
17/21st Lancers, 276
Inns of Court, 251
Staffordshire Yeomanry, 290–91
INFANTRY BATTALIONS/REGIMENTS
1st Parachute, 92
2nd King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, 290
7th Green Howards, 338
8th Parachute, 92, 94, 98, 148
9th Parachute, 92, 94, 98, 130, 148, 149–50
Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 148
OTHER UNITS
5th Assault Regiment, Royal Engineers, 162
22nd Independent Parachute Company, 129
No. 6 Commando, 235
No. 102 British Beach Sub-Area, 340
Royal Navy and Marines
Royal Navy, 23, 46, 49, 175. See also General Index, ships by name
ROYAL MARINES
2nd Royal Marine Armoured Support Regiment, 157, 162
FLOTILLAS
557th Landing Craft Flotilla, Royal Marines
ROYAL MARINE COMMANDOS
No. 41 Commando, 339
No. 48 Commando, 101, 208–9, 339
UNITED STATES
Air Force
Eighth Air Force, 155
Ninth Air Force, 57–58
Army
First Army, 29, 97
Fifth Army, 25
Divisions
1st Infantry, 97, 334
4th Infantry, 97
29th Infantry, 97, 334
82nd Airborne, 97
101st Airborne, 97
Battalions/Regiments
116th Regiment, 97
U.S. Parachute and Airborne Light Tank Squadron, 95
GERMAN
Air
Luflotte 3, 74, 79–80
Army
Sixth Army, 24
Seventh Army, 78, 80, 133, 135, 241, 287, 317, 321
Fifteenth Army, 78, 241
LXXXIV Corps, 286, 287, 316
Afrika Korps, 24, 134
Army Group B, 74, 284
OB West, 74
Panzer Group West, 283, 318, 319
DIVISIONS
12th SS (Hitlerjugend) Panzer, 80, 103, 240, 287, 289, 304, 317–20, 322–23, 343, 346
21st Panzer, 80, 102, 133–34, 136, 283, 285, 286, 304, 316, 320, 323, 338–39, 346
counterattacks beaches, 287–92
352nd Infantry, 80
709th Infantry, 80
716th Infantry, 80, 101–2, 241, 280, 283, 284, 294, 316, 322–24, 345–46
Panzer Lehr, 80, 240, 287, 289, 317, 318,
REGIMENTS
22nd Panzer, 283, 287, 288, 289
25th SS Panzer Grenadier, 319
125th Panzer Grenadier, 134, 283
192nd Panzer Grenadier, 284, 289, 291
193rd Panzer Grenadier, 284
726th Infantry, 294
736th Grenadier, 101
BATTALIONS
1st Battalion,
125th Panzer Grenadier, 289
1st Battalion,
192nd Panzer Grenadier, 289
2nd Battalion,
125th Panzer Grenadier, 135, 284, 288
2nd Battalion,
736th Grenadier, 101, 278
111th Battalion,
736th Infantry, 291
200th Assault-gun Battalion, 288
220th Panzer Engineer Battalion, 289
441st East Battalion, 101
Panzerjäger (antitank) Battalion, 284
Navy
Marinegruppe West, 74
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MARK ZUEHLKE’S critically acclaimed trilogy about Canada’s experiences in World War II’s Italian campaign—Ortona: Canada’s Epic World War II Battle, The Liri Valley: Canada’s World War II Breakthrough to Rome, and The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy—established him as the nation’s leading writer of popular military history. He is also the author of The Canadian Military Atlas: The Nation’s Battlefields from the French and Indian Wars to Kosovo;The Gallant Cause: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939; and Scoundrels, Dreamers, and Second Sons: British Remittance Men in the Canadian West. Juno Beach is the first of a planned series that will trace the Canadian role in the Normandy campaign.
Also a novelist, he is the author of the popular Elias McCann series, which follows the misadventures and investigations of a community coroner in Tofino, British Columbia. The first in this series, Hands Like Clouds, won the 2000 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. It was followed by Carry Tiger to Mountain and, most recently, he has completed Sweep Lotus, with publication expected soon.
Zuehlke lives in Victoria, British Columbia, where, when not writing, he enjoys backpacking, cycling, kayaking, cooking Italian food, and gardening.