Brussels

  Buchenwald concentration camp

  Bucknall, Lt. Gen. Gerard

  Budapest

  Bulgaria

  Bulge, Battle of the

  Allied bombing and

  Allied intelligence failure and

  Allies victory in

  Bastogne and

  center attack

  Christmas during

  consequences of

  counteroffensive after Bastogne

  Eisenhower and Bradley informed of

  Eisenhower assassination threat and

  Eisenhower’s decision not to cross Rhine and

  eve of

  Fifth Panzer attack on south shoulder

  GREIF Meuse bridge attack and

  Hitler’s HERBSTNEBEL plan initiates

  launched

  mass surrender of U.S. troops and

  Montgomery’s press conference on

  NORDWIND and

  Peiper’s killing spree and

  POWs from

  pozit shells and

  Sixth Panzer attack on north shoulder

  Spa evacuation by First Army and

  Strasbourg and

  St.-Vith and

  Verdun meeting and command split

  Büllingen

  Burma

  Burns, James MacGregor

  Burton, Sergeant

  Butcher, Comm. Harry C.

  Bütgenbach

  Butler, Brig. Gen. Frederic Bates

  Butler, Task Force

  Byers, Lt. Richard H.

  Byron, George Gordon, Lord

  C-46 Curtiss Commando plane

  Cádiz attack (1587)

  Caen, Battle for

  fall of

  GOODWOOD and

  Caen canal

  Caesar, Julius

  Cagny

  Calais

  CALENDAR, Operation

  Callahan, Raymond

  Canadian First Army

  Canadian II Corps

  Canadian 3rd Infantry Division

  Canadian 4th Armored Division

  Canadian armed forces. See also specific individuals and military units

  Canadian North Nova Scotia Highlanders Regiment

  Canadian POWs, murdered at Caen

  Canadian Royal Regina Rifles Regiment

  Canadian Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment

  Canadian Scottish Regiment

  Candide (Voltaire)

  Cannae, Battle of (216 BC)

  Capa, Robert

  Capra, Frank

  Cardonnet Bank

  Carentan

  Carpenter, Iris

  Carrington, Maj. Peter

  Carver, Field Marshal Lord

  Casablanca Conference

  Casablanca (film)

  Cassino, Battle of

  Catoctin, U.S.S.

  Catton, Bruce

  Cavender, Col. Charles C.

  Cézanne, Paul

  Chalampé

  Chamberlain, Neville

  Chambois, Battle of

  Charlemagne, King of the Franks

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Chartres

  Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton meet at

  Chaudfontaine

  Chaumont ambush

  Cheek, Lt. Earle C.

  CHEERFUL, Operation

  Chekhov, Anton

  chemical warfare

  Cherbourg

  fall of

  German demolitions in

  logistics and

  China

  CHLOROFORM (commando team)

  Choltitz, Gen. Dietrich von

  Christiansen, Gen. Friedrich

  Churchill, Clementine

  Churchill, John, first Duke of Marlborough

  Churchill, Mary

  Churchill, Sarah

  Churchill, Winston

  Allies and

  Antwerp and

  bombing and

  Brooke and

  Bulge and

  Czechoslovakia and

  D-Day and

  death of FDR and

  decline of empire and

  De Gaulle and

  DRAGOON and

  Eisenhower and

  Eisenhower honored by

  end of war and

  Falaise and

  FDR and

  Hitler and

  Malta and

  MARKET GARDEN and

  Montgomery and

  Mortain and

  OVERLORD and

  Pacific and

  postwar Europe and

  Rhine crossing and

  Stalin and

  V-1 attacks and

  V-2 attacks and

  V-E Day and

  Yalta and

  CIRCON plan

  CLARION, Operation

  Clark, Gen. Mark W.

  Clarke, Brig. Gen. Bruce C.

  Clervaux

  coal

  Coates, Darrell W.

  COBRA, Operation

  Cohen, Robert

  Colleville

  military cemetery

  Collier’s

  Collins, Maj. Gen. J. Lawton “Lightning Joe”

  Aachen and

  advance to Germany and

  Bulge and

  Cherbourg and

  COBRA and

  concentration camps and

  GRENADE and

  Paderborn and

  Patton and

  personality of

  Colmar Pocket

  Cologne

  bombing of

  fall of

  combat exhaustion (shell shock)

  Combattante, La (French destroyer)

  Combined Chiefs of Staff (Charlie-Charlies)

  German surrender and

  Malta and

  Communications Zone (COMZ, formerly Services of Supply)

  Conan Doyle, Arthur

  concentration camps. See also specific locations

  extrajudicial killings at

  Condé, Eisenhower and Montgomery meet at

  Cook, Maj. Julian A.

  Corlett, Maj. Gen. Charles H. “Cowboy Pete”

  Corley, Lt. Col. John T.

  Corsica

  Cota, Maj. Gen. Norman D. “Dutch”

  Côte d’Azur

  Côte du Calvados, La

  Cotentin Peninsula

  Coutances

  Cowan, Richard E.

  Coward, Noël

  Crerar, Gen. Harry D. G.

  Crete

  CRICKET. See Malta Conference

  Crimea

  Crocker, Gen. Sir John

  Crosby, Bing

  CROSSBOW, Operation

  Cunningham, Adm. Andrew Browne

  Czechoslovakia

  Dachau concentration camp

  Dahlquist, Maj. Gen. John E.

  Dallek, Robert

  Daniel, Lt. Col. Derrill M.

  Danube River

  Darmstadt

  Davis, Richard G.

  Dawney, Lt. Col. Christopher C. “Kit”

  Dawson, Capt. Joseph T.

  D-Day. See also OVERLORD; and specific locations

  airborne drop

  British and Canadian landings

  casualties

  forces launched

  landings at Omaha Beach

  landings at Utah Beach

  preparations for

  naval bombardment and

  objectives of

  Rommel and German response

  weather delays and

  Degas, Edgar

  De Gaulle, Charles

  arrives in France

  Churchill and

  colonial soldiers and

  De Lattre and

  DRAGOON and

  Eisenhower and

  FDR and

  German postwar occupation and

  Leclerc and

  liberation of Paris and

  OVERLORD and

  Paris government of

  Rhine crossing and

  Strasbourg and


  De Guingand, Maj. Gen. Francis W. “Freddie”

  De Lattre de Tassigny, Bernard

  De Lattre de Tassigny, Gen. Jean Joseph

  Colmar Pocket and

  Devers and

  DRAGOON and

  German surrender and

  January 1945 position of

  Leclerc vs.

  personality of

  Rhine crossing and

  Rhone campaign and

  Strasbourg and

  Stuttgart and

  tension with Americans and

  Vosges campaign and

  De Mille, Cecil B.

  Dempsey, Lt. Gen. Miles

  Denmark

  Descheneaux, Col. George L.

  desertions

  D’Este, Carlo

  Destination Tokyo (film)

  “Destructive Measures on Reich Territory” (Hitler decree)

  Devers, Lt. Gen. Jacob Loucks

  Bradley and

  Bulge and

  Eisenhower and

  final days of war and

  French and

  German surrender and

  January 1945 position of

  personality of

  Rhine crossing and

  Strasbourg and

  victory position of

  Vosges and Rhine advance of

  Devine, Col. Mark A., Jr.

  Deyo, Rear Adm. Morton L.

  DIADEM offensive

  Dickson, Col. Benjamin A. “Monk”

  Dietrich, General Sepp

  Dietrich, Marlene

  Dijon

  Dillon, J. Austin

  Dives River

  Dollmann, Gen. Friedrich

  Dom Bütgenbach

  Dönitz, Grand Adm. Karl

  Donovan, Gen. William J.

  Doolittle, Lt. Gen. Jimmy

  Doubs River

  Douglas, Capt. Keith

  Douve River

  Drabik, Sgt. Alex

  DRAGOON, Operation

  advance on Lyon and Montélimar

  advance on Vosges and Swiss border

  Belfort Gap and

  Churchill and

  launch of

  Marseille and

  St.-Tropez and

  success of

  Toulon and

  Draguignan

  Draper, Sgt. Frank, Jr.

  Dresden

  bombing of

  U.S. POWs in

  Driant, Fort, debacle

  Drôme River

  Dufy, Raoul

  Duisburg

  Dumas, Alexandre

  Du Maurier, Daphne

  Dunckern, Gen. Anton

  Dunkirk

  Dupuy, R. Ernest

  Düren

  Düsseldorf

  Dutch resistance

  Eagle’s Nest (Hitler château)

  Eaker, Lt. Gen. Ira C.

  Eastern Europe

  Yalta and

  Eastern Front

  Eastern Siberia

  East Pomerania

  East Prussia

  Eberbach, Gen. Heinrich

  ECLIPSE (postwar plan for Germany)

  Economist

  Eddy, Maj. Gen. Manton S.

  Eden, Anthony

  Egypt

  Eichhorn, Rabbi David Max

  Eindhoven

  Eisenhower, Doud Dwight

  Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight D. “Ike”

  advance beyond Rhine and

  airborne troops and

  Allies managed by

  Antwerp and

  arrives in Normandy

  assassination threat vs.

  assumes ground command

  atomic bomb and

  awarded fifth star

  Berlin and

  birthday of

  bombing of German cities and

  Bradley and

  Brooke and

  brothels and

  Bulge and

  Bushy Park office of

  Cannae and

  capture of German territory and

  Cherbourg and

  Churchill and

  Churchill honors, in London

  COBRA and

  Colmar Pocket and

  combat exhaustion and

  COMZ and

  concentration camps and

  criticisms of

  cultural treasures and

  Czechoslovakia and

  D-Day and

  death of FDR and

  death of Ramsay and

  De Gaulle and

  desertions and

  Devers and

  Devers’ plan to jump Rhine and

  divisions fighting under

  DRAGOON and

  Falaise and

  FDR and

  final days of war and

  First Army returned to Bradley by

  French and

  German POWs and

  German surrender and

  GOODWOOD and

  Göring and

  health problems of

  Hodges and

  Hürtgen and

  leaflets and

  liberation of Paris and

  logistics and

  logistics for winter and

  Malta and

  manpower needs and

  MARKET GARDEN and

  Marshall and

  Mediterranean campaign and

  Merkers treasure and

  Metz and

  Montgomery and

  Montgomery vs., and Bradley

  Montgomery vs., and Bulge

  Montgomery vs., and Churchill

  Montgomery vs., and MARKET GARDEN

  Montgomery vs., and showdown in Maastricht

  Montgomery vs., and single- vs. multipronged strategy

  Montgomery vs., and war’s end date

  Munich and

  Normandy and

  OVERLORD and

  Patton and

  Patton’s Baum fiasco and

  personality of

  poison gas and

  postwar career of

  postwar German occupation and

  pozit shells

  provisions for

  Reims HQ of

  Rhine crossing and

  Ruhr and

  shifts main attack to Bradley

  Simpson and

  Soviets and

  St.-Dié demolitions and

  Strasbourg and

  Stuttgart and

  Summersby and

  Ted Roosevelt and

  three phases of battle envisioned by

  as Time “Man of the Year”

  transfers XV Corps to Seventh Army

  Truscott and

  V-1 attacks and

  valor awards and

  VERITABLE and GRENADE and

  Versailles HQ of

  Yalta and

  Eisenhower, Ida

  Eisenhower, John

  Eisenhower, Mamie

  El Alamein, Battle of

  Elbe River

  U.S. and Red Armies meet at

  El Guettar, Battle of

  Elsenborn Ridge, Battle of

  EMBARCO

  English Channel, fuel pipelines across

  EPHEDRINE (commando team)

  Epstein, Lt. Bernard

  Erpeler Ley

  Essen

  bombing of

  Estonia

  European Advisory Commission

  Fairbanks, Lt. Douglas, Jr.

  Falaise

  Falaise Pocket, Battle of the

  Farouk I, King of Egypt

  Faubus, Maj. Orval E.

  Faust (Goethe)

  Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor

  Figaro, Le

  Finland

  First Allied Airborne Army

  MARKET GARDEN and

  VARSITY PLUNDER and

  Flanner, Janet

  Foertsch, Lt. Gen. Hermann

  Follain, Jean

  “Foot March Group South”

  Force B

  Force U

  Ford, Homer D.
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  Fort Du Roule, fall of

  FORTITUDE (Appendix Y) deception

  For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)

  France. See also Vichy France; and specific individuals, locations, and military units

  African soldiers and

  crimes by U.S. soldiers in

  German postwar zone and

  German surrender and

  logistics and

  Mediterranean invasion and

  OVERLORD and

  railroads

  Yalta and

  Franconia, R.M.S.

  Franco-Prussian War

  Frankfurt

  SHAEF moves to

  Freckleton air accident

  Frederick, Maj. Gen. Robert T.

  Frederick the Great, King of Prussia

  Free France

  Freeman, Douglas Southall

  Freeman, Edward Augustus

  Fréjus, Gulf of

  French 1st Armored Division

  French First Army

  French I Corps

  French 1st Infantry Division

  French 2nd Armored Division

  French II Corps

  French 3rd Algerian Division

  French Army

  Bulge and

  colonial troops and

  DRAGOON and

  looting by

  rebirth of

  Rhine Crossing and

  Stuttgart and

  French Army B

  French collaborators

  French communists

  French Forces of the Interior (FFI)

  French Foreign Ministry

  French Legionnaires

  French Resistance

  Lyon and

  Paris and

  French War Ministry

  Friedeburg, Adm. Hans-Georg von

  Friedrich, Jörg

  Frost, Lt. Col. John D.

  Frost, Robert

  fuel supplies

  Fuller, Col. Hurley E.

  Fussell, Lt. Paul

  Gaffey, Maj. Gen. Hugh J.

  Gale, Lt. Gen. Sir Humfrey M.

  Gallic Wars (Caesar)

  Gallipoli, Battle of (1915)

  Gander, Marsland

  Gap

  GARBO (British double agent)

  Garrick, David

  gas chambers

  Gaskill, Gordon

  Gault, Lt. Col. James F.

  Gavin, Brig. Gen. James M.

  Bulge and

  concentration camps and

  German surrender and

  MARKET GARDEN and

  personality of

  Geisel, Theodore (Dr. Seuss)

  Gela, landing at

  Gellhorn, Martha

  Geneva Conventions

  George VI, King of England

  Gerhardt, Maj. Gen. Charles Hunter, Jr.

  German First Army

  surrender by

  German First Parachute Army

  German I SS Panzer Corps

  German 1st SS Panzer Division

  German II SS Panzer Corps

  German 2nd Panzer Division

  German 2nd Parachute Corps

  German 2nd SS Panzer Division (Das Reich)

  German 3rd Panzer Grenadier Division

  German Fifth Panzer Army

  Bulge and

  German Sixth Panzer Army

  Bulge and

  German 6th Parachute Regiment

  German 6th SS Mountain Division

  German Seventh Army

  Bulge and

  Falaise Pocket and

  Mortain and

  retreat from Belgium

  German 7th Panzer Division

  German 9th Panzer Division

  German 9th Parachute Regiment

  German 9th SS Panzer Division

  German 10th SS Panzer Division