00 Undated T312 Roll 1565 Reference 40

Undated T312 Roll 1565 Reference 40 Army Group B cover name directory

Date note: June 1944.

Top Secret Command Matter. Caution—the enemy is listening. Extract from the Army Group B cover-name directory. [Undated sheet filed at the opening of the June volume.] Code words are retained as identifying names.

Command authority—cover name.

Commander in Chief West—Udo; Senior Quartermaster West—Alex; General of Artillery at Commander in Chief West—Plato; Fighter Commander West—Huskate [reading uncertain]; Panzer Group West—Bianca.

Army Group B, operations staff—Erika; Senior Quartermaster staff—Diana; reporting post Falaise—Sebastian.

Seventh Army, operations staff—Polo; Senior Quartermaster staff—Nussknacker; main exchange 2 Le Mans—Este. Fifteenth Army, operations staff—Marabu; Senior Quartermaster staff—Peter. First Army—Hochwild. Army Group G—Engelhard. Nineteenth Army—Seestern.

LXXXVI Army Corps—Jakob; LXXXIV—Yoga; LXXIV—Apis; LXXXI—Carlo; XXV—Alba; II Parachute Corps—Titan; I SS Panzer Corps—Wespennest; II SS Panzer Corps—Zebra; XXXXVII Panzer Corps—Thermos [reading softened]. Commander of Corps Supply Troops, II Parachute Corps—Heinzelmännchen.

Commander Jersey—Abenteuer; Commandant Alderney—Adressbuch; Fortress Commandant Brest—Pistole; Fortress Commandant Cherbourg—Salomo; Fortress Commandant Saint-Nazaire—Stufenleiter; Fortress Commandant Saint-Malo—Werner; Fortress Commandant Lorient—Zahnstange; Panzer Brigade 10—Hirschkäfer.

Divisions.

77th Infantry Division—Hagen; 84th—Hubertus; 91st—Wolfgang; 136th for Special Employment—Wolga; 158th Reserve Division—Hubertus; 243rd—Tannhäuser; 245th—Atlas; 264th—Zauberlehrling; 265th—Neptun; 266th—Torso; 275th—Ratskeller; 276th—Trabant; 277th—Ase; 319th—Automat; 343rd—Max; 346th—Fastnacht; 352nd—Birkhuhn; 353rd—Apfelbaum; 709th—Raubvogel; 711th—Zeisig; 716th—Amsel.

1st SS Panzer Division—Lockvogel; 2nd SS Panzer Division—Astor; 9th SS Panzer Division—Iltis; 10th SS Panzer Division—Rubin; 12th SS Panzer Division—Stichling; 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division—Zwergfalke; 2nd Panzer Division—Diplomat; 21st Panzer Division—Edelweiss; Panzer Lehr Division—Rheinwein; 2nd Parachute Division—Sturmvogel; 3rd Parachute Division—Malteser; 5th Parachute Division—Passat.

17th Luftwaffe Field Division—Wartburg; Battle Group Hellmich—Senf; Air Command 3—Herold; III Flak Corps—Gladiator; Grenadier Regiment for Special Employment 752—Alaun.

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