18 May 1944 Part 2

18 May 1944 Part 2 Command code names effective from 20 May

Date note: 18 May 1944.

Annex to Seventh Army Headquarters Ia/Ic/ANF(II) No. 584/44 Top Secret, second annex, dated 18 May 1944. Top Secret Command Matter. Thirteen copies; copy twelve. Caution — the enemy is listening. Army Group B command code names, valid from 20 May 1944.

Commander in Chief West — Udo. Senior Quartermaster West — Alex. General of Artillery with Commander in Chief West — Plato. Naval Signals Intelligence 5 — Giselbert. Signals Intelligence 13 — Adelheid. Signals Intelligence 14 — Benjamin.

Army Group B operations branch — Erika; senior quartermaster branch — Diana.

Seventh Army operations branch, main exchange 1 Le Mans — Polo; senior quartermaster branch, main exchange 3 Le Mans — Nussknacker; main exchange 2 Le Mans — Este.

Fifteenth Army operations branch, main exchange 1 Tourcoing — Marabu; senior quartermaster branch, main exchange 2 Tourcoing — Peter. LXXXI Army Corps — Carlo.

Armed Forces Commander Netherlands operations branch, main exchange Hilversum — Seerose; senior quartermaster branch, main exchange Baarn — Senta. Army Group G — Engelhard. First Army — Hochwild. LXXX Army Corps — Steckdose. Nineteenth Army — Seestern. Panzer Group West — Bianka. Third Air Fleet — Herold. LXXXIV Army Corps — Wega. 21st Panzer Division — Edelweiß.

Listed without individual code names in this copy: 716th, 352nd, 709th, 91st, 243rd and 319th Divisions.

LXXIV Army Corps — Apis. Beneath it: 77th Division, Special Employment Division 136 and 266th Division, without individual code names.

II Parachute Corps — Titan. Beneath it: 2nd, 3rd and 5th Parachute Divisions, without individual code names.

XXV Army Corps — Alba. Beneath it: 343rd, 353rd, 265th and 275th Divisions, without individual code names.

German Seventh Army Headquarters (AOK 7), NARA T-312 Roll 1565. Roll 1565 Jersey and Channel Islands English translations.docx, reference 34. Scan extracts: img062_09_15712_17717.jpg, img062_10_17717_19725.jpg. Extract filenames identify the original image strip, section number and horizontal pixel boundaries; these are not archival frame numbers.