The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (193 page)

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)

DRAGOON
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

Merkers treasure

Merriman, Henry Seton

Messina

Metz

Battle of

Meuse-Escaut Canal

Meuse River.
See also
Maas River

Bulge and

GREIF
and

HERBSTNEBEL
and

Meyer, Col. Kurt

Middleton, Drew

Middleton, Maj. Gen. Troy

Bulge and

Rhine crossing and

Milburn, Maj. Gen. Frank W.

Miller, Maj. Glenn

Miller, Lee

Millett, Allan R.

Millikin, Maj. Gen. John

Millin, Sgt. Bill

mines

Mission No. 17.
See
Yalta Conference

Model, Field Marshal Walter

Allied Rhine crossing and

Bulge and

Ruhr and

suicide of

Molotov, Vyacheslav

Monet, Claude

Monsabert, Gen. Joseph de Goislard de

Monschau

Mons Pocket

Montélimar, Battle of

Montgomery, Gen. Bernard L. “Monty”

Antwerp and

assessment of

BODENPLATTE
and

Bradley and

Brittany and

Bulge and

Churchill and

COBRA
and

D-Day and

De Gaulle and

Eisenhower and

Eisenhower assumes command of ground assault and

Eisenhower shifts attack to Bradley from

Eisenhower vs., and Bulge

Eisenhower vs., and Churchill

Eisenhower vs., and
MARKET GARDEN

Eisenhower vs., and showdown at Maastricht

Eisenhower vs., and single- vs. multipronged strategy

Eisenhower vs., and war’s end date

Elbe crossing and

Falaise and

German surrender and

GOODWOOD
and

Horrocks and

January 1945 position of

Malta and

MARKET GARDEN
and

Mortain and

Normandy and

North Africa and

OVERLORD
and

Patton and

personality of

promoted to field marshal

Rhine crossing and

Ruhr and

SHAEF tensions and

Siegfried Line and

VARSITY PLUNDER
and

VERITABLE
and
GRENADE
and

victory position of

Yalta and

Montjoie (Hill 314)

Mont-St.-Michel

Mook

Moon, Rear Adm. Don P.

Moore, Henry

Moorehead, Alan

Moran, Charles

Morgan, Lt. Gen. Frederick E.

Morgenthau, Henry, Jr.

Morocco

Mortain, Battle of

Moselle River

Mosel River

MOVCO

Muirhead, John

Mulberry A (synthetic harbor)

Mulberry B (Port Winston, synthetic harbor)

Mulhouse

Munich

Munich Conference

munition supplies

Münster

Murphy, Lt. Audie Leon

Murphy, Robert

Murray, Williamson

Murrow, Edward R.

Mussolini, Benito

mustard gas

Namur

Nancy

napalm

Naples

Churchill at

Napoléon Bonaparte

National Redoubt

National Velvet
(film)

Natzweiler concentration camp

Nazi Party

Neder Rijn (Lower Rhine)

Neffe

Nelson, Adm. Horatio

Netherlands

liberation of

MARKET GARDEN
and

V-2 rockets and

Neuf-Brisach

Neufchâteau

Nevada
, U.S.S.

New Yorker

New York Herald Tribune

New York
Sun

New York Times

Ney, Marshal Michel

Nicholas II, Czar of Russia

Nijmegen

MARKET GARDEN
and

Niven, David

Nordhausen concentration camp

Nordling, Raoul

NORDWIND
, Operation

Normandy.
See
OVERLORD
;
and specific battles and locations

gains and losses at end of

July advance and fears of stalemate

June advance

map of assault on

terrain and bocage

North African campaign.
See also specific battles and countries

Norway

“Notes on Command in Western Europe” (Montgomery memorandum)

Noville, Battle of

NOVOCAINE
(commando team)

Nuremberg

war-crimes tribunals

Nutting, Conrad J., III

Nutting, Katherine

O, Task Force

Oberkassel crossing

Obersalzberg

O’Brien, Capt. Thomas F.

Obstfelder, Gen. Wolgang von

O’Connor, Gen. Sir Richard

O’Daniel, Maj. Gen. John W. “Iron Mike”

Oder River

Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

“Field Manual No. 3”

Oflag XIII-B (German POW camp)

Oflag 64 (German POW camp)

Oflag 79 (German POW camp)

Ohrdruf concentration camp

oil.
See also
fuel supplies

Okinawa, Battle of

OKW.
See
German Oberkommando der Wehrmacht

Olga Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess of Russia

Olivier, Laurence

Omaha Beach

synthetic harbor

O’Malley, Patricia

O’Malley, Maj. Richard James

O’Neill, Col. James H.

Oosterbeek

Oppenheim, Patton crosses Rhine at

Oppenheimer, J. Robert

Oradour-sur-Glane massacre

Oran

Orléans

Orne River

Ortona, Battle of

Orwell, George

Osnabrück, bombing of

Osthelmer, Sgt. Werner

Ott, Mel

Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor

Our River

OVERLORD

advance into Normandy and

airborne drop

armada on eve

Brittany ports and

Cherbourg and

COBRA
and

costs of

D-Day landings and

De Gaulle and

DRAGOON
and

Falaise and

German defenses and

GOODWOOD
and

Hitler and German response to

launched

Montgomery and

Mortain and

Patton and

planned

synthetic harbors and

weather delays and

Overy, Richard

Pacific campaign

Pact of Steel

Paderborn

Panter-Downes, Mollie

Paris

Bulge and

COMZ and

demolition fears and

liberation of

logistics and

Patton’s push toward

post-liberation

V-E Day and

Parker, Capt. James E.

Pas de Calais

Pash, Col. Boris T.

Passchendaele, Battle of (1917)

Passierschein
(safe-conduct pass)

Patch, Lt. Gen. Alexander McCarrell, Jr. “Sandy”

death of son and

DRAGOON
and Rhone campaign and

final days of war and

NORDWIND
and

personality of

Rhine crossing and

Strasbourg and

victory position of

Patch, Capt. Alexander M. “Mac”, III

Patch, Julia

Patton, Beatrice

Patton, Lt. Gen. George S., Jr,

XV Corps and

arrives in France to head Third Army

Bastogne and

black soldiers and

Bradley and

Brittany vs. Paris and

brothels and

Bulge and

casualties and

concentration camps and

Devers and

diary of

Eisenhower and

Eisenhower vs. Montgomery and

Falaise and

final days of war and

German campaign of

German surrender and

January 1945 position of

Lee and

Linz and

logistics and

manpower shortages and