The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
German Eleventh Army
German 11th Panzer Division
German Twelfth Army
German 12th Infantry Division (Wild Buffaloes)
German 12th SS Panzer Division (Hitler Youth, Murder Division)
German Fifteenth Army
German 17th SS Panzer Grenadier Division
German Nineteenth Army
German 21st Panzer Division
German 25th Army
German 26th Volksgrenadier
German XLVII Panzer Corps
German 49th Infantry Division
German LVII Panzer Corps
German LVIII Corps
German 58th Panzer Corps
German LXVII Corps
German LXXIV Corps
German LXXXI Corps
German 84th Corps
German 85th Corps
German 89th Infantry Division
German 116th Panzer Division
German 150th Armored Brigade
German 198th Division
German 275th Division
German 352nd Infantry Division
German 716th Infantry Division
German Afrika Korps
German Air Fleet Three
German Air Ministry
German Army Group B
surrender of
German Army Group C
German Army Group Center
German Army Group G
surrender of
German Army Group H
German Army Group Oberrhein
German demolitions
German Luftwaffe
Bulge and
command problems
fuel shortages and
glide bombs and
losses
German OB West (HQ)
German Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW, high command)
German Panzer Group West
renamed Fifth Panzer Army
German Panzer Lehr Division
German paratroopers
German SS
Baugnez massacre and
Buchenwald and
concentration camps and
death of FDR and
liberation of Paris and
MARKET GARDEN and
German Volksgrenadiers
German Volkssturm Home Guard
German Waffen-SS troops
German Wehrmacht. See also specific individuals, locations, and military units
decline of
liberation of Paris and
retreat of
surrender of
after V-E Day
Germany. See also specific individuals, locations, and military units
Allied propaganda and
Allies first cross into
bombing of
“bridge psychosis” and
casualties and
civilians under occupation
December 1944 position of
early plan for drive on
industry
January 1945 position of
looting of
Normandy defeat and
postwar occupation of
scientists in
search for missing soldiers in
Soviet invasion of
Stalin and reparations from
surrender of
Third Reich, after V-E Day
transportation system
war crimes and
women in
Gerow, Maj. Gen. Leonard T.
Geyr von Schweppenburg, Gen. Leo Freiherr
GI Bill
Gide, André
Gielgud, John
Giessen
First and Third Army meet at
Gill, Brendan
Gillem, Maj. Gen. Alvan C., Jr.
glide bombs
gliders
Goebbels, Joseph
Goethe, Johann W. von
Going My Way (film)
Gold Beach
Golden, Capt. Jack
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
GOODWOOD, Operation
Gooseberries
Göring, Hermann
Gorky, Maxim
Gothic Line
Goya, Francisco de
Graham, Maj. Gen. Sir Miles
Grand Hotel (Baum)
Granville
Graves Registration units
Grave
Gray, J. Glenn
Greece
GREIF, Operation
GRENADE, Operation
Grenoble
Groesbeek
Groesbeek Ridge
Groves, Lt. Gen. Leslie R.
Guadalcanal
Guam
Guderian, Heinz
Gustav Line
Gypsies
Haardt Mountains
Haile Selassi, Emperor of Ethiopia
Haislip, Maj. Gen. Wade
Hall, Rear Adm. John L.
Hallock, Lt. Joseph R.
Hamburg
fall of
firebombing of
Hamburger, Philip
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hamm
Hammelburg POW camp
Hammett, Dashiell
“Handbook for Military Government in Germany” (SHAEF)
Hannibal
Hanover
Hansen, Maj. Chester “Chet”
Hardy, Thomas
Harmon, Maj. Gen. Ernie
Harriman, W. Averell
Harris, Air Chief Marshal Arthur T. “Bomber”
Hart, B. H. Liddell
Harz Mountains
Hasbrouck, Brig. Gen. Robert W.
Hastings, Max
Hausser, Gen. Paul
Heidelberg
Heilbronn
Heinz, W. C.
Heisenberg, Werner
Hemingway, Ernest
Henri II, King of France
Henry V (Shakespeare)
HERBSTNEBEL, Operation (Autumn Mist). See also Bulge, Battle of the
Hewitt, Vice Adm. H. Kent
Heydte, Col. Friedrich von der
Higgins, Trumbull
Hill 262 (Maczuga)
Hill 314 (Montjoie)
Hill 400
Hill 427
Himmler, Heinrich
Hindenburg, Field Marshal Paul von
History of the Norman Conquest of England (Freeman)
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hitler, Adolf
Aachen and
admits war is lost
Allied Rhine crossing and
Alsace and
Antwerp and
Ardennes and
assassination attempt vs.
Atlantic Wall and
Belgium and
Berchtesgaden and
Blaskowitz fired by
Boulogne and Dunkirk ordered held by
British invasion planned by
Brittany ports and
Cherbourg and
COBRA and
Colmar and
coup attempt vs.
D-Day and
death of Rommel and
DRAGOON and
Eastern Front and
Falaise and
final days of war and
forces required to defeat
French and
generals fired by
German losses and
health problems of
HERBSTNEBEL (Bulge) and
Italy and
June 1945 positions and
Kesselring and
Kluge suicide and
Lorraine and
Metz and
Mortain and
Munich and
NORDWIND and
oil and
OSS portrait of
OVERLORD and
Paris and
retreat from France and
Rhine bridge demolitions and
Rommel and
Ruhr and
Rundstedt reinstated by
scorched-earth decree of
secret weapons and
&nbs
p; Siegfried Line and
Soviet invasion and
Soviet nonaggression pact and
Strasbourg and
suicide of
V-2 rocket and
Hitler Youth
Hobbs, Maj. Gen. Leland S.
Hodges, Lt. Gen. Courtney H.
advance on Rhine and
Bulge and
Hürtgen and
January 1945 position of
personality of
Rhine crossed by
Ruhr and
victory position of
winter preparations and
“hog calling” tactic
Hoge, Brig. Gen. William M.
Holland. See Netherlands
Holocaust. See also concentration camps; Jews
Holzinger, Sgt. Warner W.
Honsfeld massacre
Hopkins, Harry
Horne, Lena
Horrocks, Lt. Gen. Brian G.
Horton, Lt. Hershel G.
Houffalize
Housman, A. E.
Howard, Maj. John
Howard, Michael
Howarth, David
Howie, Maj. Thomas D.
Huebner, Maj. Gen. Clarence R.
Hughes, Maj. Gen. Everett S.
Huie, William Bradford
Hull, Cordell
Humain
Hungary
Hunger Winter
Hürtgen Forest, Battle of
HUSKY
Huy
Hynes, Samuel
Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia
IG Farben
Ill River
India
Indochina
Infantry Attacks (Rommel)
Ingersoll, Maj. Ralph
Innocents Abroad, The (Twain)
Institute of Physics and Chemistry (Halle, Germany)
“Instrument of Surrender”
Is Everybody Happy? (film)
Isigny
Ismay, Lt. Gen. Hastings
Italian campaign
Allied troops from, join European forces at Brenner Pass
DRAGOON and
Fascist collapse in
German retreat from
German surrender in
Gothic Line in
surrender of
Iwo Jima
Jackson, Stonewall
James, Lt. Clifton
Jammertal
Janie (film)
Japan
Soviet entry to war on
surrender of
Jarrell, Randall
Jaworski, Lt. Col. Leon
Jeanne d’Arc, Fort
Jefferson, Thomas
jet aircraft
Jeu de Paume treasures
Jews
Hitler and
last train leaves Paris
looted goods from
Nazi extermination of
Philips shields
Jodl, Gen. Alfred
Joint Anglo-American Film Planning Commission
Jones, Maj. Gen. Alan W.
Juin, Gen. Alphonse
Jülich
Juno Beach
Jura Mountains
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics
Kall Gorge
Karcher, Lt. Henri
Karlshorst, German surrender at
Karlsruhe
Kassel
Kasserine Pass, Battle of
Kean, Maj. Gen. William B.
Keegan, John
Keep, Capt. Henry B.
Kehl
Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm
Kerley, Lt. Ralph A.
Kershaw, Ian
Kesselring, Field Marshal Albert
Kimball, Warren F.
King, Adm. Ernest J.
King Lear (Shakespeare)
Kipling, Rudyard
Kirstein, Lincoln
Kittel, Gen. Heinrich
Kluge, Field Marshal Günther von
relieved of command
suicide of
Knobelsdorff, Gen. Otto von
Knox, Henry
Koblenz
fall of
Koch, Brig. Gen. Oscar W.
Koenigsmacker, Fort
Kohl, Helmut
Kommerscheidt
Königsberg
Korea
Koufra, Battle of
Kraków
Krause, Lt. Col. Edward C.
Krinkelt, Battle of
Krupp, Alfried
Krupp factory
Kuehl, Chaplain Delbert
Kuril Islands
Kussin, Gen. Friedrich
La Caine
La Cambe cemetery
Lady Irene (Horsa glider)
“Lady with the Pet Dog, The” (Chekhov)
La Fière bridge
La Gleize
Lamour, Dorothy
Lancaster bombers
Landsberg concentration camp
Lanzerath
La Roche-Guyon (German Army Group B HQ)
fall of
Larrabee, Eric
Latvia
Lauer, Maj. Gen. Walter E.
LCA-1015
LCI-88
LCI-233
LCIs (landing craft, infantry)
LCTs (landing craft, tank)
leafleting
League of German Maidens
Lebensraum plan
Leclerc, Maj. Gen. Jacques Philippe
Lee, Lt. Gen. John C. H. “Court House”
Lee, Robert E.
Lee’s Lieutenants (Freeman)
Le Hamel
Le Havre
Leigh-Mallory, Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford
Leipzig
bombing of
Red Army and Western Allies meet near
Le Mans
Lenin, V. I.
Leningrad
Leonard, Maj. Gen. John W.
Leuna synthetic-oil plant
Lewin, Ronald
Lewin, Lt. Wells
Lewis, Norman
Lewis, Sinclair
Lewis, Ted
Liberty ships
Libya
Liebling, A. J.
Liège
Life
Lifeboat (film)
Life of the Bee, The (Maeterlinck)
“light line”
Lippe River
Lippstadt
Littlejohn, Maj. Gen Robert
Lodge, Henry Cabot
logistics
advance to Germany and
Antwerp and
Bastogne and
DRAGOON and
French and
HERBSTNEBEL plan and
German problems with
liberation of Paris and
OVERLORD
ports and
post-Bulge
requirements by fall 1944
Rhine crossing and
Ruhr and
Soviets and
U.S. contributions to war and
winter campaign and
Loire River
London
Eisenhower honored in
Eisenhower meets Churchill in
privations of
V-1 and V-2 attacks on
V-E Day and
war damage in
London Daily Express
London Daily Mail
London Daily Telegraph
London Sunday Times
London Times
looting
Lorient, siege of
Lorraine campaign
Losheim Gap
Louis IV, King of France
Louis IX, St., King of France
Louis XIV, King of France
Louis XVI, King of France
Louis the Pious, King of the Franks
Lovat, Lord
Love’s Tables
Lovett, Robert A.
Low Countries. See Belgium; Netherlands
LST-353
LST 487/516
LST-906
LSTs (landing ship, tank)
D
RAGOON and
OVERLORD and
Lübeck
Lucht, Gen. Walter
Luck, Lt. Col. Hans von
Ludendorff, Gen. Erich
Ludendorff Bridge (Remagen)
Ludwigshafen
Lüneberg
British war crimes trials
German surrender at
Lunéville
Lüttwitz, Lt. Gen. Heinrich von
Luxembourg
Bulge and
Luxembourg City
Lyon
M-47 phosphorus bomb (earthquake bomb)
M-76 Block Burner
Maas River. See also Meuse River
Maastricht
Eisenhower vs. Montgomery showdown at
Maas-Waal Canal
MacArthur, Douglas
MacDonald, Charles B.
Maddalena, Frank
Maddalena, Natalie
MADISON, Operation
Maeterlinck, Maurice
Magdeburg
Maginot Line
Mainz
Maison Rouge
Majdanek concentration camp
Malden
Malmédy
massacre (Baugnez)
Malta Conference
Maltese Falcon, The (Hammett)
Manchuria
Manderfeld
Manhattan Project
Mann, Joe E.
Mannheim
bombing of
Rhine crossing at
manpower shortages
Manstein, Field Marshal Erich
Manteuffel, Gen. Hasso von
Manual of Therapy
maquis
Marburg
Marcks, Gen. Erich
Marcus Aurelius
Mareth, Battle of
Margival (Hitler’s HQ)
Margraten cemetery
Mariana Islands
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
MARKET GARDEN, Operation
Marlborough (Churchill)
Marseille
Marshall, Gen. George C.
bombing of Berlin and
Bradley and
Brereton and
Bulge and
COBRA and
concentration camps and
Czechoslovakia and
De Gaulle and
De Lattre and
Devers and
DRAGOON and
Eisenhower and
Eisenhower vs. Montgomery and
final days of war and
liberation of Paris and
logistics and
Malta and
manpower needs and
MARKET GARDEN and
Middleton and
OVERLORD and
Patch and
Patton and
postwar Europe and
Red Army and
Ruhr Pocket POWs
Ted Roosevelt and
on WW II
Yalta and
Marshall Islands
Masefield, John
Mauldin, Bill
May, Karl
McAuliffe, Brig, Gen. Anthony Clement
McCloughry, Air Vice Marshal E. J. Kingston
McCloy, John J.
McCown, Maj. Hal D.
McLain, Maj. Gen. Raymond S.
McNair, Lt. Gen. Lesley J.
Me-262 (German jet)
Mead, Margaret
medical problems
frostbite
trench foot
typhus
venereal disease
Mediterranean campaigns. See also specific campaigns
Meet the Americans (manual)
Megargee, Geoffrey P.
Meindl, Gen. Eugen
Mein Kampf (Hitler)
Melmer, Bruno
Men at War (Hemingway)
Merderet River