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3 unusual facts about order of battle


Order of battle

Operation Quicksilver, part of the British deception plan for the Invasion of Normandy in World War II, fed German intelligence a combination of true and false information about troop deployments in Britain, causing the Germans to deduce an order of battle which suggested an invasion at the Pas-de-Calais instead of Normandy.

Order of Battle: Battle of Guadalajara

Order of Battle for the Spanish Civil War Battle of Guadalajara.

Order of Battle: Hainan Island Operation

Myoko (5th Fleet flag ship) - Vice Admiral Kondo Nobutake


2 Intelligence Company

2 Intelligence Company formally returned to the Canadian Army’s Order of Battle on October 29, 1993 as Land Force Central Intelligence Company.

Grandes Unités Françaises

Grandes Unités Françaises (full title: Guerre 1939-1945 Les Grandes Unités Françaises) is a monumental six-volume (the fifth volume is actually composed of four separate works) World War II order of battle and military unit history reference compiled by the historical service of the chief of staff of the French Army.


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Battle of Dupplin Moor

In his classic study, A History of War in the Middle Ages, Sir Charles Oman says of Dupplin: "The Battle of Dupplin forms a turning point in the history of Scottish wars. For the future the English always adopted the order of battle which Balliol and Beaumont had discovered. It was the first in a long series of battles won by a combination of archers and dismounted men-at-arms."

Battle of Marsaglia

Catinat, advancing from Fenestrelle and Susa to the relief Pinerolo, defended by the count of Tessé and which the duke of Savoy was besieging, took up a position in formal order of battle north of the village of Marsaglia, near Orbassano.

Interservice rivalry

In Nazi Germany there was constant rivalry between the Wehrmacht (the combined services of the Third Reich) and the Waffen-SS since they were often in parallel order of battle situations, particularly with regard to armored divisions.

Operation Grapeshot order of battle

Operation Grapeshot order of battle is a listing of the significant formations that were involved in the Spring 1945 offensive in the Apennine Mountains and the Po valley in northern Italy, April 1945 – May 1945.

Order of Battle Peiking – Hankou Railway Operation

The Order of Battle Peiking–Hankou Railway Operation (August 1937 – January 1938)