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The order of battle for the Battle of France details the hierarchy of the major combatant forces in the Battle of France in May 1940.

French	British	German
Général d'armée	General	Generaloberst
Général de corps d'armée	Lieutenant-General	General der Infanterie/Kavallerie/Artillerie/Pioniere (branch specific)
Général de division	Major-General	Generalleutnant
Général de brigade	Brigadier	Generalmajor (lowest German general rank)
Colonel	Colonel	Oberst

The commander-in-chief of the Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH) was Generaloberst Walter von Brauchitsch. Initially the Axis forces consisted of the forces of the German army. They were joined in the conflict by the Italian army on 10 June.

Second Army - General der Kavallerie Maximilian von Weichs^[1]

Directly reporting:

267th Infantry Division

294th Infantry Division

IX Corps - General der Infanterie Hermann Geyer

15th Infantry Division

205th Infantry Division

XXVI Corps - General der Artillerie Albert Wodrig

34th Infantry Division

45th Infantry Division

295th Infantry Division

VI Corps - General der Pioniere Otto-Wilhelm Förster

5th Infantry Division

293rd Infantry Division

Ninth Army - Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz^[1]

Directly reporting:

211th Infantry Division

XXXXII Corps - General der Pioniere Walter Kuntze

50th Infantry Division

291st Infantry Division

XXXXIII Corps - Generalleutnant Hermann Ritter von Speck, from 31 May Generalleutnant Franz Böhme

88th Infantry Division

96th Infantry Division

292nd Infantry Division

XVIII Corps - General der Infanterie Eugen Beyer, from 5 June Generalleutnant Hermann Ritter von Speck

25th Infantry Division

81st Infantry Division

290th Infantry Division

Commanded by Generaloberst Gerd von Rundstedt (Chief of Staff: Generalleutnant Georg von Sodenstern)

Fourth Army - Generaloberst Günther von Kluge (Chief of Staff: Generalmajor Kurt Brennecke)

II Corps - General der Infanterie Adolf Strauß -> 30.5.1940 General der Infanterie Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel

12th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach

32nd Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Franz Böhme

V Corps - General der Infanterie Richard Ruoff

211th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Kurt Renner

251st Infantry Division - Generalmajor Hans Kratzert

263rd Infantry Division - Generalmajor Franz Karl

VIII Corps - General der Infanterie Walter Heitz

8th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Rudolf Koch-Erpach

28th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Hans von Obstfelder -> 20.5.1940 Generalmajor Johann Sinnhuber

87th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Bogislav von Studnitz

267th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Ernst Fessmann

XV Corps - General der Infanterie Hermann Hoth (dispositions north to south: Yvoir-Houx-Dinant)

5th Panzer Division - Generalleutnant Max von Hartlieb -> 22.5.1940 Generalleutnant Joachim Lemelsen -> 6.6.1940 Generalmajor Ludwig Cruwell

7th Panzer Division - Generalmajor Erwin Rommel [1]

62nd Infantry Division - Generalmajor Walter Keiner

Twelfth Army - Generaloberst Wilhelm List (Chief of Staff: Generalleutnant Eberhard von Mackensen)

III Corps - General der Artillerie Curt Haase

3rd Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Walter Lichel

23rd Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt

52nd Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Hans-Jurgen von Arnim

VI Corps - General of Engineers Otto-Wilhelm Förster

16th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Heinrich Krampf

24th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Justin von Obernitz -> 1.6.1940 Generalmajor Hans-Valentin Hube

XVIII Corps - General der Infanterie Eugen Beyer -> 1.6. Generalleutnant Hermann Ritter von Speck

5th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Wilhelm Fahrmbacher

21st Infantry Division - Generalmajor Otto Sponheimer

25th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Erich Clößner

1st Mountain Division - Generalleutnant Ludwig Kübler

Sixteenth Army - General der Infanterie Ernst Busch (Chief of Staff: Generalmajor Walter Model)

VII Corps - General der Infanterie Eugen von Schobert

36th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Georg Lindemann

68th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Georg Braun

XIII Corps - Generalleutnant Heinrich von Vietinghoff

15th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Friedrich-Wilhelm von Chappuis

17th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Herbert Loch

10th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Konrad von Cochenhausen

XXIII Corps - Generalleutnant Albrecht Schubert

34th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Hans Behlendorff

58th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Iwan Heunert

76th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Maximilian de Angelis

26th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Sigismund von Förster

Panzer Group Kleist - General der Kavallerie Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (Chief of Staff: Generalmajor Kurt Zeitzler)

XIV Corps - General der Infanterie Gustav Anton von Wietersheim

2nd Infantry Division (mot.) - Generalleutnant Paul Bader

13th Infantry Division (mot.) - Generalmajor Friedrich-Wilhelm von Rothkirch und Panthen

29th Infantry Division (mot.) - Generalmajor Willibald Freiherr von Langermann und Erlencamp

XXXXI Corps - Generalleutnant Georg-Hans Reinhardt (disposition of Panzer Corps north to south, Montherme)

6th Panzer Division - Generalmajor Werner Kempf

8th Panzer Division - Oberst Erich Brandenberger

XIX Corps - General der Kavallerie Heinz Guderian [2] (dispositions east to west: Donchery to Sedan)

2nd Panzer Division - Generalleutnant Rudolf Veiel

1st Panzer Division - Generalleutnant Friedrich Kirchner

10th Panzer Division - Generalleutnant Ferdinand Schaal

Infantry Regiment Großdeutschland

Reserves

XXXX Corps - Generalleutnant Georg Stumme

6th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Arnold Freiherr von Biegeleben

9th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Georg von Apell

4th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Erick-Oskar Hansen

27th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Friedrich Bergmann

71st Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Karl Weisenberger

73rd Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Bruno Bieler

Commanded by Generaloberst Fedor von Bock (Chief of Staff: Generalleutnant Hans von Salmuth)

Sixth Army - Generaloberst Walter von Reichenau (Chief of Staff: Generalmajor Friedrich Paulus)

XVI Corps - General der Kavallerie Erich Hoepner

4th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Erick-Oskar Hansen

33rd Infantry Division - Generalmajor Rudolf Sintzenich

3rd Panzer Division - Generalmajor Horst Stumpff

4th Panzer Division - Generalmajor Ludwig Radlmeier -> 8.6.1940 Generalmajor Johann Joachim Stever

IV Corps - General der Infanterie Viktor von Schwedler

15th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Ernst-Eberhard Hell

205th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Ernst Richter

XI Corps - Generalleutnant Joachim von Kortzfleisch

7th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Eccard Freiherr von Gablenz

211th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Kurt Renner

31st Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Rudolf Kaempfe

IX Corps - General der Infanterie Hermann Geyer

XXVII Corps - General der Infanterie Alfred Wäger

253th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Fritz Kuhne

269th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Ernst-Eberhard Hell

Eighteenth Army - General der Artillerie Georg von Küchler

Reporting Directly ^[2]

1st Cavalry Division - Major General Kurt Feldt

X Corps - General Christian Hansen

SS "Adolf Hitler" Reinforced Regiment - Sepp Dietrich

227th Infantry Division

207th Infantry Division^[3]

SS "Der Fuhrer" Reinforced Regiment (Detached from SS "Verfugungstruppe" Division) ^[4]

XXVI Corps - General Albert Wodrig

256th Infantry Division

254th Infantry Division

SS "Verfügungstruppe" Division (Less one Regiment "Der Fuhrer") - ss-Gruppenfuhrer Paul Hausser

9th Panzer Division - Major General Alfred Ritter Von Hubicki

XXXIX Corps (Activated 13 May 1940) – Lieutenant General Rudolf Schmidt

Reserves

208th Infantry Division

225th Infantry Division

526th Infantry Division

Air Landing Corps (Under Luftwaffe control)

7th Air Division

22nd Air Landing Infantry Division

Commanded by Generaloberst Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb

First Army - Generaloberst Erwin von Witzleben^[1]

Directly reporting:

197th Infantry Division

Höh. Kom. z.b.V. XXXVII - Generalleutnant Alfred Böhm-Tettelbach

246th Infantry Division

215th Infantry Division

262nd Infantry Division

257th Infantry Division

XXIV Corps - General der Panzertruppe Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg

60th Infantry Division

252nd Infantry Division

168th Infantry Division

XII Corps - Generaloberst Gotthard Heinrici

75th Infantry Division

268th Infantry Division

198th Infantry Division

XXX Corps - General der Artillerie Otto Hartmann

258th Infantry Division

93rd Infantry Division

79th Infantry Division

Höh. Kom. z.b.V. XXXXV - General der Infanterie Kurt von Greiff

95th Infantry Division

167th Infantry Division

Seventh Army - Generaloberst Friedrich Dollmann^[1]

Höh. Kom. z.b.V. XXXIII - General der Kavallerie Georg Brandt

213th Infantry Division

554th Infantry Division

556th Infantry Division

239th Infantry Division

XXV Corps - General der Infanterie Karl Ritter von Prager

557th Infantry Division

555th Infantry Division

6th Mountain Division

Directly reporting:

218th Infantry Division

221st Infantry Division

Commanded by Prince General Umberto di Savoia

1st Army - General Pietro Pintor

II Army Corps - General Francesco Bertini

III Army Corps - General Mario Arisio

XV Army Corps - General Gastone Gambara

4th Army - General Alfredo Guzzoni

I Army Corps - General Carlo Vecchiarelli

IV Army Corps - General Camillo Mercalli

Alpine Army Corps - General Luigi Negri Cesi

Overall, the Italian forces numbered about 312,000 troops. However they had inadequate artillery and transport and most were not equipped for the cold Alpine environment.

The bulk of the forces of the Allies were French, although the United Kingdom (British Expeditionary Force), Netherlands, and Belgium had significant forces in the battle opposing Germany. Supreme Command was held by the French Commander-in-Chief Général d'armée Maurice Gamelin, his deputy Général d'armée Alphonse Joseph Georges was appointed Commander of the North Western Front.

The First Army Group guarded the north-east frontier of France, ready to move into Belgium and the Netherlands to oppose any German invasion of those nations. The First controlled four French armies as well as the Belgian Army and the British Expeditionary Force. Général d'armée Gaston Billotte was Commander-in-Chief until his death in a car crash on 23 May 1940, Général d'armée Georges Maurice Jean Blanchard was appointed to succeed him.

First Army - Général d'armée Georges Maurice Jean Blanchard

Cavalry Corps - Général de corps d'armée René Prioux (vs. Hoeppner's XVI Pz Corps @ Hannut)

2nd Light Mechanized Division - Général de brigade Gabriel-Marie-Joseph Bougrain (vs. Hoeppner Corps)

3rd Light Mechanized Division - Général de brigade Jean-Léon-Albert Langlois ^[5]

3rd Corps - General de Fornel de la Laurencie

1st Motorized Infantry Division

1st Moroccan Infantry Division

2nd North African Infantry Division

4th Corps - Général de division Aymes

32nd Infantry Division

15th Motorized Infantry Division - Général de brigade Alphonse Juin

5th Corps - Général de corps d'armée René Altmayer

5th North African Infantry Division

101st Infantry Division

Belgian VII Corps

2nd Chasseurs Ardennais - Général de brigade Maurice-Colombe-Louis Keyaerts [3] (at Chabrehez and Houx vs. 7th Pz Div)

8th Infantry Division

Second Army - Général d'armée Charles Huntziger

Directly reporting: (dispositions north to south)

5th Light Cavalry Division - Général de brigade Marie-Jacques-Henri Chanoine [4] (to Neufchateau-Bastogne, vs Guderian 1st and 2nd Pz, evacuated Sedan)

2nd Light Cavalry Division (to Habay La Neuve, Arlon Gap, vs 10th Pz Div)

1st Cavalry Brigade

Directly reporting: (Reserves)

4th Tank Battalion

7th Tank Battalion

205th Inf Regt

213th Inf Regt - Lt Colonel Labarthé

10th Corps - Général de corps d'armée Pierre-Paul-Jacques Grandsard [5]

55th Infantry Division - Général de brigade Henri-Jean LaFontaine [6] (Donchery and La Marfee on the Meuse, vs Guderian, 1st, 2nd Pz Divs.)

71st Infantry Division - Général de brigade Joseph-Antoine-Jacques-Louis Baudet [7] (Wadelincourt on the Meuse and Raucourt, vs Guderian's 10th Pz Div)

3rd North African Infantry Division (South of 71st Div)

18th Corps - Général de division Paul-André Doyen

1st Colonial Infantry Division

3rd Colonial Infantry Division

41st Infantry Division

Seventh Army - Général d'armée Henri Giraud

Directly reporting:

21st Infantry Division

60th Infantry Division

68th Infantry Division

1st Corps

1st Light Mechanized Division

25th Motorized Division - Général de division Molinié

16th Corps

9th Motorized Division

Ninth Army - Général d'armée André Corap

Directly reporting:

4th North African Infantry Division - Général de division Charles-Èugene Sancelme [8] (at Onhaye, vs 7th Pz Div)

53rd Infantry Division - Général de brigade Jean-Marie-Léon Etchberrigaray (vs 2nd Pz)

2nd Corps Général de corps d'armée Jean-Gabriel Bouffet [9]

4th Light Cavalry Division - Général de division Paul-Louis-Arthur Barbe [10] (deployed into the Ardennes, across the Meuse to the Ourthe, then Marche, vs 7th Pz Div)

5th Motorized Division - Général de brigade Jean-Noël-Louis Boucher [11] (Haut-le-Wastia, vs 7th Pz)

11th Corps - Général de corps d'armée Julien-Françoise-René Martin

1st Light Cavalry Division

18th Infantry Division - Général de division Camille-Léon Duffet [12] (on the Meuse at Houx, vs 7th Pz Div)

66th Regt

77th Regt

125th Regt

22nd Infantry Division - Général de brigade Joseph-Louis-Françoise Hassler [13] (Givet on the Meuse, vs 7th Pz Div)

41st Corps - Général de corps d'armée Emmanuel-Urbain Libaud [14]

61st Infantry Division - Général de brigade Arsène-Marie Paul Vauthier (N of Monthermé vs 8 Pz Div)

102nd Fortress Division - Général de division Françoise-Arthur Portzert [15] (Monthermé, vs 6th Pz Div)

3rd Spahi Brigade [fr] - Colonel Marc (La Horgne v 1st Pz)

French Armored Reserves (near Rheims to SW of breakthrough area)

1st Armored Division - Général de brigade Marie-Germain-Christian Bruneau [16] (deployed to Charleroi then to Flavion, arrived low on fuel or out of fuel, vs 7 Pz Div and then 5th Pz Div)

2nd Armored Division - Général de brigade Albert-Charles-Émile Bruché [17] (to Signy, deployed piecemeal, destroyed by Reinhardt's XLI Pz Corps)

3rd Armored Division - Général de brigade Georges-Louis Brocard [18] (to west of Stonne, versus Grossdeutschland Regt, 10th Pz Div, dispersed, small detachment attacked Stonne but driven off)

3rd Motorized Infantry Division - Général de brigade Paul-Jean-Léon Bertin-Bossu [19] (to west of Stonne, dispersed, attacked Stonne but driven off)

4th Armored Division - Général de brigade Charles de Gaulle

British Expeditionary Force - General Lord Gort

Directly reporting:

5th Infantry Division - Major-General Harold Franklyn

12th Infantry Division - Major-General Roderic Loraine Petre

23rd Infantry Division - Major-General William Norman Herbert

46th Infantry Division - Major-General Henry Curtis

I Corps (UK) - Lieutenant-General Michael Barker succeeded by Major-General Harold Alexander

1st Infantry Division - Major-General Harold Alexander

2nd Infantry Division - Major-General Charles Loyd, succeeded by Brigadier Noel Irwin

48th Infantry Division - Major-General Andrew Thorne

II Corps (UK) - Lieutenant-General Alan Brooke succeeded by Major-General Bernard Montgomery

3rd Infantry Division - Major-General Bernard Montgomery, succeeded by Brigadier Kenneth Anderson

4th Infantry Division - Major-General Dudley Johnson

50th Infantry Division - Major-General Giffard Le Quesne Martel

III Corps (UK) - Lieutenant-General Ronald Adam

42nd Infantry Division - Major-General William Holmes

44th Infantry Division - Major-General Edmund Osborne

The Belgian Army field approximately 600,000 personnel in 22 divisions, backed by 1,338 artillery pieces, 10 tanks and 240 other combat vehicles. King Leopold III of Belgium had assumed personal command of the army upon mobilization. His principal military advisor was Lieutenant-general Raoul van Overstraeten, while General-major Oscar Michiels was Chief of the General Staff.

I Corps (Lieutenant-general Alexis van der Veken)

4th Infantry Division

7th Reserve Infantry Division

II Corps (Lieutenant-general Victor Michem)

6th Infantry Division

14th Reserve Infantry Division

III Corps (Lieutenant-general Joseph de Krahe)

2nd Infantry Division

3rd Infantry Division

IV Corps (Lieutenant-general André Bogaerts)

12th Reserve Infantry Division

15th Reserve Infantry Division

18th Reserve Infantry Division

V Corps (Lieutenant-general Edouard Van den Bergen)

13th Reserve Infantry Division

17th Reserve Infantry Division

VI Corps (Lieutenant-general Fernand Verstraete)

5th Infantry Division

10th Reserve Infantry Division

VII Corps (Lieutenant-general Georges Deffontaine)

8th Reserve Infantry Division

2nd Chasseurs Ardennais Division

Cavalry Corps (Lieutenant-general Maximilien de Neve de Roden)

1st Infantry Division

14th Reserve Infantry Division

2nd Cavalry Division

Group Ninitte

Group K (Lieutenant-general Maurice Keyaerts)

1st Cavalry Division

1st Chasseurs Ardennais Division

General Reserve

11th Reserve Infantry Division

16th Reserve Infantry Division

The Luxembourg army (the Corps des Gendarmes et Voluntaries) was made up of two companies. The first company, the Volunteer Corps, was Luxembourg’s main army during the invasions. The second company was the Corps des Gendarmes Luxembourg’s gendarmarie force.

Corps des Gendarmes et Voluntaries - Émile Speller

Volunteer Corps - Captain Aloyse Jacoby

auxiliary unit

Corps des Gendarmes - Captain Maurice Stein

The French 2nd Army Group was responsible for manning the bulk of the Maginot Line from Montmédy to south of Strasbourg, and controlled three armies. General de Armee Andre-Gaston Pretelat was Commander-in-Chief of the army group throughout its existence.

Directly reporting to the Army Group

87th African Infantry Division

4th Colonial Infantry Division

The French 3rd Army Group was responsible for manning the southern end of the Maginot Line, along the River Rhine and controlled one army. The army group's Commander-in-Chief was Général d'Armée Antoine-Marie-Benoit Besson.

Eighth Army

General Marcel Garchery

VII Corps

13th Infantry Division

27th Infantry Division

XIII Corps

19th Infantry Division

54th Infantry Division

104th Fortress Division

105th Fortress Division

XLIV Corps

67th Infantry Division

XLV Corps

57th Infantry Division

63rd Infantry Division

Polish Second Infantry Fusiliers Division (Brigadier-General Bronisław Prugar-Ketling)

The Netherlands had four corps, one motorized division and a defense division deployed to begin the battle. Total strength was 240,000 personnel, equipped with 676 artillery pieces and 32 armoured cars. Generaal Henri Winkelman was Supreme Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army and Navy.

Field Army Command - Luitenant-generaal Godfried van Voorst tot Voorst

II Corps - Generaal-majoor Jacob Harberts

2nd Division

4th Division

III Corps - Generaal-majoor Adrianus van Nijnatten

5th Division

6th Division

Light Division (Attached)

Peel Division (Attached)

IV Corps - Generaal-majoor Adrianus van den Bent

7th Division

8th Division

A, B, G Brigades

I Corps - Generaal-majoor Nicolaas Carstens

1st Division

3rd Division

Originally the French Sixth Army, the Army of the Alps was responsible for manning the southeast frontier with Italy. Overall, French forces in the region numbered about 35,000 soldiers.
Armee des Alps
Général d'Armée René Olry

3 infantry divisions of type B

XIV Army Corps

XV Army Corps

Fortification sectors: Dauphiné, Savoie, Alpes Maritimes

Defence sectors: Rhône, Nice

The French began the battle with three reserve corps positioned behind the army groups. The VII and XXIII Corps were stationed behind the 2nd and 3rd Army Groups.

The following divisions were also kept in reserve:

10th Infantry Division

14th Infantry Division

23rd Infantry Division

28th Infantry Division

29th Infantry Division

36th Infantry Division

43rd Infantry Division

1st North African Infantry Division

7th North African Infantry Division

5th Colonial Infantry Division

7th Colonial Infantry Division

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