The German plan for a land invasion of Britain in 1940 during World War II was code-named Operation Sea Lion (Unternehmen Seelöwe in German). This is the order of battle for Operation Sea Lion per the modified German plan produced on August 30, 1940.
German forces
Army Group A
Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt
First Wave
- XIII Army Corps — General Heinrich-Gottfried von Vietinghoff genannt Scheel.
 17th Infantry Division
 35th Infantry Division- Luftwaffe II./14th Flak Regiment
 
 - VII Army Corps — Generaloberst Eugen Ritter von Schobert
 1st Mountain Division
 7th Infantry Division- Luftwaffe I./26th Flak Regiment
 
 
Second Wave
 V Army Corps — General Richard Ruoff
 XXXXI Army Corps — General der Panzertruppen Georg-Hans Reinhardt
Third Wave
- XIII Army Corps — General Heinrich-Gottfried von Vietinghoff genannt Scheel.
 
 9th Army — Generaloberst Adolf Strauss
First Wave
- XXXVIII Army Corps — General Erich von Manstein
 
 VIII Army Corps — General Walter Heitz
Second Wave
- XV Army Corps — Generaloberst Hermann Hoth
 
Third Wave
Army Group C
Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
 6th Army — Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Reichenau
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
- VII Corps — Lieutenant-General Andrew McNaughton of Canada
 
 Northern Command — Lieutenant-General Ronald Forbes Adam
 I Corps — Lieutenant-General Harold Alexander
 X Corps — Lieutenant-General William Holmes
- London District — Lieutenant-General Bertram Sergison-Brooke
 
 Eastern Command — Lieutenant-General Laurence Carr
 II Corps — Lieutenant-General Edmund Osborne
 XI Corps — Lieutenant-General Hugh Massy
 XII Corps — Lieutenant-General Andrew Thorne
 Southern Command — Lieutenant-General Claude Auchinleck
 V Corps — Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery
 VIII Corps — Lieutenant-General Harold Franklyn
 Australian force in the UK (later 9th Division) — Major General Henry Wynter [1]
 18th Australian Infantry Brigade (Southern Command Striking Force)
 25th Australian 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
 
References
- ↑ "9th Division". Second World War, 1939–1945 units. Australian War Memorial. Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2010.
 
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