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26 June 1944 Part 4

Summary

Revised cover name directory.

Location Details

Jersey; Alderney; Cherbourg; Lorient; Brest; St Malo; St Nazaire

Diary Entry

26 June 1944 Part 4 Revised cover name directory

Date note: 26 June 1944.

Top Secret Command Matter. Cover-name directory, valid from 00:00 on 26 June 1944. Code words are retained as identifying names.

Commander in Chief West—Hansa; Senior Quartermaster West—Thomas; General of Artillery at Commander in Chief West—Ferdinand; Commander Signals Intelligence 5—Salome; Signals Intelligence Battalion 13—Schimmel; Battalion 14—Fontane.

Army Group B, operations staff—Rheingold; Senior Quartermaster staff—Helmut; reporting post—Sebastian.

Seventh Army, operations staff—Achilles; main exchange 1/main exchange 2, formerly Este—Achilles 1; reporting post—Achilles 2; Senior Quartermaster staff—Waldpark.

XXV Army Corps—Posaune; LXXIV—Erich; LXXXIV—Rotbart; LXXXVI—Uranus; II Parachute Corps—Brutus; I SS Panzer Corps—Mirabelle; II SS Panzer Corps—Audi; XXXXVII Panzer Corps—Bernhard. Panzer Group West—Preis.

Fifteenth Army, operations staff—Seeadler; Senior Quartermaster staff—Arthur. LXXXI Army Corps—Amadeus. Armed Forces Commander Netherlands, operations staff—Wildvogel; Senior Quartermaster staff—Tellheim.

Army Group G, main exchange Toulouse—Hildebrandt 1; operations staff—Hildebrandt 2; Senior Quartermaster staff—Hildebrandt 3.

First Army, main exchange Bordeaux—Olive 1; operations staff—Olive 2; Senior Quartermaster staff—Olive 3. LXXX Army Corps—Engelhard.

Nineteenth Army, main exchange Avignon—Bernstein 1; Senior Quartermaster staff—Bernstein 2; operations staff—Bernstein 3.

Air Command 3—Herold; III Flak Corps—Gladiator; Commander of Corps Supply Troops, II Parachute Corps—Heinzelmännchen.

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.

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.

Grenadier Regiment for Special Employment 752—Alaun. Handwritten addition: 16th Luftwaffe Field Division—Ende [reading uncertain].

Source of Information 

German Seventh Army Headquarters (AOK 7), NARA T-312 Roll 1565. Roll 1565 Jersey and Channel Islands English translations.docx, reference 60. Scan extracts: img110_07_12188_14246.jpg. Extract filenames identify the original image strip, section number and horizontal pixel boundaries; these are not archival frame numbers.

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