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

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

• XXVIII.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

External links

• Order of battle - Unternehmen Seelöwe (Sealion)