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List of wartime orders of battle for the British 1st Division (1809–1945) List of wartime orders of battle for the British 3rd Division (1809–1945) 6th Airborne Division order of battle; List of wartime orders of battle for the British 6th Division (1810–1941) Order of battle of the German Ninth Army, October 1941
The major battle of Operation Market Garden; Allies reach but fail to cross the Rhine; British First Airborne Division destroyed. • Battle of Peleliu: A fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the western Pacific. • Battle of Aachen: Aachen was the first major German city to face invasion during World War II. • Battle of the ...
This is a list of orders of battle, which list the known military units that were located within the field of operations for a battle or campaign. The battles are listed in chronological order by starting date (or planned start date).
Armed forces during the Battle of Normandy in 1944 D-Day Overlord; Joslen, H. F. (2003) [1960]. Orders of Battle: Second World War, 1939–1945. Uckfield, East Sussex: Naval and Military Press. ISBN 978-1-84342-474-1. "The Assault Landings in Normandy : Order of Battle British Second Army" (PDF). Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.
The 1920 Army List, which provides an order of battle for the division during that year and an example of it during the early 1920s. "War Office, Monthly Army List, January 1937". National Library of Scotland. p. 20. The 1937 Army List, which provides an example of the division's order of battle in the late 1930s.
This is the order of battle for the Battle of Midway, a major engagement of the Pacific Theatre of World War II, fought 4–7 June 1942 by naval and air forces of Imperial Japan and the United States in the waters around Midway Atoll in the far northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
List of German brigades in World War II; List of Battle of Britain squadrons; List of wartime orders of battle for the British 1st Division (1809–1945) List of wartime orders of battle for the British 6th Division (1810–1941) List of World War II British airborne battalions; List of British airborne brigades of the Second World War
An order of battle is not necessarily a set structure, and it can change depending on tactical or strategic developments, or the evolution of military doctrine. For example, a division could be altered radically from one campaign to another through the adding or removing of subunits but retain its identity and prior history.