The German plan for a land invasion of Britain in 1940 during World War II was code-named Operation Sea Lion (Unternehmen Seelöwe in German). This is the order of battle for Operation Sea Lion per the modified German plan produced on August 30, 1940.
German forces
Army Group A
Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt
First Wave
- XIII Army Corps — General Heinrich-Gottfried von Vietinghoff genannt Scheel.
17th Infantry Division
35th Infantry Division
- Luftwaffe II./14th Flak Regiment
- VII Army Corps — Generaloberst Eugen Ritter von Schobert
1st Mountain Division
7th Infantry Division
- Luftwaffe I./26th Flak Regiment
Second Wave
V Army Corps — General Richard Ruoff
XXXXI Army Corps — General der Panzertruppen Georg-Hans Reinhardt
Third Wave
- XIII Army Corps — General Heinrich-Gottfried von Vietinghoff genannt Scheel.
9th Army — Generaloberst Adolf Strauss
First Wave
- XXXVIII Army Corps — General Erich von Manstein
VIII Army Corps — General Walter Heitz
Second Wave
- XV Army Corps — Generaloberst Hermann Hoth
Third Wave
Army Group C
Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
6th Army — Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Reichenau
British forces
Home Forces
General Alan Brooke
Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-General Bernard Paget
38th (Welsh) Infantry Division
21st Army Tank Brigade
IV Corps — Lieutenant-General Francis Nosworthy
- VII Corps — Lieutenant-General Andrew McNaughton of Canada
Northern Command — Lieutenant-General Ronald Forbes Adam
I Corps — Lieutenant-General Harold Alexander
X Corps — Lieutenant-General William Holmes
- London District — Lieutenant-General Bertram Sergison-Brooke
Eastern Command — Lieutenant-General Laurence Carr
II Corps — Lieutenant-General Edmund Osborne
XI Corps — Lieutenant-General Hugh Massy
XII Corps — Lieutenant-General Andrew Thorne
Southern Command — Lieutenant-General Claude Auchinleck
V Corps — Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery
VIII Corps — Lieutenant-General Harold Franklyn
Australian force in the UK (later 9th Division) — Major General Henry Wynter [1]
18th Australian Infantry Brigade (Southern Command Striking Force)
25th Australian Infantry Brigade
Western Command — General Robert Gordon-Finlayson
2nd London Infantry Division
III Corps — Lieutenant-General James Marshall-Cornwall
5th Infantry Division
- 3rd Motor Machine Gun Brigade
36th Independent Infantry Brigade
- Scottish Command — Lieutenant-General Harold Carrington
References
- ↑ "9th Division". Second World War, 1939–1945 units. Australian War Memorial. Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2010.
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