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AUTHOR’S NOTE
The author would like to thank the staff of the US Army’s Military History Institute (MHI) at the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, PA and the staff of the US National Archive, College Park for their kind assistance in the preparation of this book. Thanks also go to Art Loder for his help on Luftwaffe issues.
For brevity, the traditional conventions have been used when referring to units. In the case of US units, 1/179th Infantry refers to the 1st Battalion, 179th Infantry Regiment. The US Army traditionally uses arabic numerals for divisions and smaller independent formations (70th Division, 781st Tank Battalion), roman numerals for corps (VI Corps), spelled-out numbers for field armies (Seventh Army) and arabic numerals for army groups (12th Army Group).
In the case of German units, 2./Panzer-Regiment 7 refers to the 2nd Company, Panzer-Regiment 7; II./Panzer-Regiment 7 indicates 2nd Battalion, Panzer-Regiment 7. German corps have two accepted forms, the formal version using roman numerals (LXXXIV Armee Korps) or the shortened 84. AK which is the preferred form used here for clarity. Likewise, the German field armies are contracted in the usual fashion (e.g. AOK 19 for Nineteenth Army).
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