The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (191 page)

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.

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