- Order of battle for Operation Nordwind
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This is the order of battle of German and Allied forces during Operation Nordwind in World War IIContents
Allied Forces
Sixth Army Group (Devers)
US Seventh Army (Patch)
XV Corps (Haislip)
100th Infantry Division
VI Corps (Brooks)
French First Army (Tassigny)I Corps (Béthouart)
- 1st Infantry March Division
II Corps (Monsabert)
- 3rd Moroccan Division
- 4th Moroccan Mountain Division
- 10th Infantry Division
US XXI Corps (Milburn)Axis Forces
Army Group G (Blaskowitz)
First Army (Obstfelder)
25th Panzergrenadier Division
XIII SS Corps (Simon)
- 19th Volksgrenadier Division
36th Volksgrenadier Division
XC Corps
- 559th Volksgrenadier Division
- 257th Volksgrenadier Division
LXXXIX Corps
- 361st Volksgrenadier Division
- 245th Infantry Division
- 256th Volksgrenadier Division
Army Group Upper Rhine (Himmler)
Nineteenth Army (Rasp)
LXIV Corps
- 189th Infantry Division
- 198th Infantry Division
- 708th Volksgrenadier Division
- 16th Infantry Division
LXXXIX Corps
- 338th Infantry Division
159th Infantry Division
- 269th Infantry Division
Sources
- Steven Zaloga "Operation Nordwind 1945" Osprey Publishing (June 22, 2010) ISBN 978-1-84603-683-5
- Engler, Richard. The Final Crisis: Combat in Northern Alsace, January 1945. Aberjona Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-9666389-1-2
- Smith and Clarke, "Riviera To The Rhine," The official US Army History of the Seventh US Army.
- Nordwind & the US 44th Division *Battle History of the 44th I.D.
- 14th Armored Division Combat History
- Cirillo, Roger. The Ardennes-Alsace. The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II. United States Army Center of Military History. CMH Pub 72-26. http://www.history.army.mil/brochures/ardennes/aral.htm.
- The NORDWIND Offensive (January 1945) on the website of the 100th Infantry Division Association contains a list of German primary sources on the operation.
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