Operation Sea Lion order of battle

The German plan for a land invasion of England in 1940 was code-named Operation Sea Lion (Unternehmen Seelöwe in German). This is the Operation Sea Lion order of battle for the modified German plan produced in August, 1940.

German forces

File:OperationSealion.svg

Plan of Operation Sealion

Heeresgruppe A

Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt

• 16.Armee — Generaloberst Ernst Busch

First Wave

• XIII.Armee-Korps — General Heinrich-Gottfried von Vietinghoff genannt Scheel.
  • 17.Infanterie-Division
  • 35.Infanterie-Division
  • Luftwaffe II./Flak-Regiment 14
• VII.Armee-Korps — Generaloberst Eugen Ritter von Schobert
  • 1.Gebirgs-Division
  • 7.Infanterie-Division
  • Luftwaffe I./Flak-Regiment 26

Second Wave

• V.Armee-Korps — General Richard Ruoff
  • 12.Infanterie-Division
  • 30.Infanterie-Division
• XXXI.Armee-Korps — General der Panzertruppen Georg-Hans Reinhardt
  • 8.Panzer-Division
  • 10.Panzer-Division
  • 29.Infanterie-Division (mot.)
  • Infanterie-Regiment (mot.) Großdeutschland
  • Infanterie-Regiment Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (mot)

Third Wave

• IV. Armee-Korps — General Viktor von Schwedler
  • 24.Infanterie-Division
  • 58.Infanterie-Division
• XXXII.Armee-Korps — General Walter Kuntze
  • 45.Infanterie-Division
  • 164.Infanterie-Division

• 9.Armee — Generaloberst Adolf Strauss

First Wave

• XXXVIII.Armee-Korps — General Erich von Manstein
  • 26.Infanterie-Division
  • 34.Infanterie-Division
• VIII.Armee-Korps — General Walter Heitz
  • 6.Gebirgs-Division
  • 8.Infanterie-Division
  • 28.Infanterie-Division

Second Wave

• XV.Armee-Korps — Generaloberst Hermann Hoth
  • 4.Panzer-Division
  • 7.Panzer-Division
  • 20.Infanterie-Division (mot.)

Third Wave

• XXIV.Armee-Korps General Leo Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg
  • 15.Infanterie-Division
  • 78.Infanterie-Division

Heeresgruppe C

Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb

• 6.Armee — Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Reichenau

• II.Armee-Korps — General Walter Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt
  • 6.Infanterie-Division
  • 256.Infanterie-Division
• Airborne Formations General Kurt Student
  • 7.Flieger-Division
  • 22.Infanterie-Division (Luftlande)
• Bau-Lehr-Regiment z.b.V. 800 Brandenburg

British forces

Home Forces

General Alan Brooke
Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-General Bernard Paget

• 38th (Welsh) Infantry Division
• 21st Army Tank Brigade
• IV Corps — Lieutenant General Francis Nosworthy
  • 2nd Armoured Division
  • 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division
  • 31st Independent Infantry Brigade Group
• VII Corps — Lieutenant General Andrew McNaughton of Canada
  • 1st Armoured Division
  • 1st Canadian Infantry Division
  • 1st Army Tank Brigade

• Northern Command — Lieutenant General Ronald Forbes Adam

• I Corps — Lieutenant General Harold Alexander
  • 1st Infantry Division
  • 2nd Infantry Division
  • 45th Infantry Division
• X Corps — Lieutenant General William Holmes
  • 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division
  • 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division

• London District — Lieutenant General Bertram Sergison-Brooke
  • 20th Independent Infantry Brigade (Guards)
  • 24th Guards Brigade Group
  • 3rd London Infantry Brigade
• Eastern Command — Lieutenant General Laurence Carr

• II Corps — Lieutenant General Edmund Osborne
  • 18th Infantry Division
  • 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division
  • 37th Independent Infantry Brigade
• XI Corps — Lieutenant General Hugh Massy
  • 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division
  • 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division
• XII Corps — Lieutenant General Andrew Thorne
  • 1st London Infantry Division
  • 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division
  • New Zealand Division
  • 1st Motor Machine Gun Brigade
  • 29th Independent Infantry Brigade

• Southern Command — Lieutenant General Claude Auchinleck

• V Corps — Lieutenant General Bernard Montgomery
  • 3rd Infantry Division
  • 4th Infantry Division
  • 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division
• VIII Corps — Lieutenant General Harold Franklyn
  • 48th (South Midland) Infantry Division
  • 70th Independent Infantry Brigade

• Western Command — General Robert Gordon-Finlayson

• 2nd London Infantry Division
• III Corps — Lieutenant General James Marshall-Cornwall
  • 5th Infantry Division
  • 3rd Motor Machine Gun Brigade
  • 36th Independent Infantry Brigade

• Scottish Command — Lieutenant General Harold Carrington

• 46th Infantry Division
• 51st (Highland) Infantry Division

External links

• Order of battle - Unternehmen Seelöwe (Sealion)
• Order of Battle - British Home Forces