D-DAY
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        Provisional Ranger Group
          2nd Ranger Battalion
          5th Ranger Battalion
        3rd Armored Tank Group
          741st Tank Battalion
          743rd Tank Battalion
          745th Tank Battalion
          747th Tank Battalion
        Special Engineer Task Force
          146th Engineer Cbt. Bn.
          299th Engineer Cbt. Bn.
          N.C.D.U.
        Provisional Engineer Brig.
          5th Engineer Sp. Brigade
            6th Naval Beach Battalion
            37th Engineer Cbt. Bn.
            336th Engineer Cbt. Bn.
            348th Engineer Cbt. Bn.
            61st Medical Battalion
            210th MP Company
            294th J.A.S.C.O.
          6th Engineer Sp. Brigade
            7th Naval Beach Battalion
            147th Engineer Cbt. Bn.
            149th Engineer Cbt. Bn.
            203rd Engineer Cbt. Bn.
            60th Medical Battalion
            214th MP Company
            293rd J.A.S.C.O.
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        58th Field Arty Battalion
        62nd Field Arty Battalion
        81st Chemical Battalion
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        4th Infantry Division
        90th Infantry Division
        82nd Airborne Division
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        101st Airborne Division
          Air Movement Table
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        6th Armored Group
          70th Tank Battalion
          746th Tank Battalion
        4th Cavalry Group
          4th Cavalry Sq.
          24th Cavalry Sq.
        1st Engineer Sp. Brig.
          2nd Naval Beach Battalion
          531st Engineer Shore Rgt
          261th Medical Battalion
          449th MP Company
          286th J.A.S.C.O.
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        7th Armoured Division
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Air Defence of Great Britain

D-Day - Order of battle
Air Commander in Chef: Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford L. Leigh-Mallory

Trafford L. Leigh-Mallory

 

 
Air Defence of Great Britain: Air Marshal Sir Roderic Hill
 
  No. 10 Group: Air Vice-Marshal Arthur Vere Harvey
    1 Squadron: (Predannack airfield)
    'B' Flight 41 Squadron: (Bolt Head airfield)
    68 Squadron: (Fairwood Common airfield)
    126 Squadron: (Culmhead airfield)
    131 Squadron: (Culmhead airfield)
    151 Squadron: (Predannack airfield)
    165 Squadron: (Predannack airfield)
    263 Squadron: (Harrowbeer airfield)
    276 Squadron: (Bolt Head airfield)
    406 Squadron: (Winkleigh airfield)
    610 Squadron: (Harrowbeer airfield)
    616 Squadron: (Culmhead airfield)
    1449 Flight: (St Mary's airfield)
 
  No. 11 Group: Air Vice-Marshal Hugh William Lumsden Saunders
    33 Squadron: (Lympne airfield)
    64 Squadron: (Deanland airfield)
    74 Squadron: (Lympne airfield)
    80 Squadron: (Detling airfield)
    96 Squadron: (West Malling airfield)
    125 (Newfoundland)Squadron: (Hurn airfield)
    127 Squadron: (Lympne airfield)
    130 Squadron: (Horne airfield)
    137 Squadron: (Manston airfield)
    219 Squadron: (Bradwell Bays airfield)
    229 Squadron: (Detling airfield)
    234 Squadron: (Deanland airfield)
    274 Squadron: (Detling airfield)
    275 Squadron: (Warmwell airfield)
    'A' Flight 277 Squadron: (Shoreham airfield)
    'B' Flight 277 Squadron: (Hawkinge airfield)
    'A' Flight 278 Squadron: (Bradwell Bay airfield)
    'B' Flight 278 Squadron: (Martlesham Heath airfield)
    345 Squadron: (Shoreham airfield)
    350 Squadron: (Friston airfield)
    402 Squadron: (Horne airfield)
    418 Squadron: (Holmsley South airfield)
    456 Squadron: (Ford airfield)
    501 Squadron: (Friston airfield)
    605 Squadron: (Manston airfield)
    611 Squadron: (Deanland airfield)
 
  No. 12 Group: Air Vice-Marshal Malcolm Henderson
      25 Squadron: (Coltishall airfield)
      307 Squadron: (Church Fenton airfield)
      316 Squadron: (Coltishall airfield)
      'A' Flight 504 Squadron: (Digby airfield)
      'B' Flight 504 Squadron: (Coltishall airfield)
      Fighter Interception Unit: (Wittering airfield)
 
  No. 13 Group: Air Commodore John Auguste Boret
      'A' Flight 118 Squadron: (Sumburgh airfield)
      'B' Flight 118 Squadron: (Skeabrae airfield)
      309Squadron: (Drem airfield)