Order of battle for the Spring Offensive

German Spring Offensive, 1918
Part of the Western Front of World War I

German gains in 1918
Date21 March – 18 July 1918
LocationNorthern France; West Flanders, Belgium
Result Tactical German success
Operational/Strategic German failure
Belligerents

 German Empire

France France United Kingdom British Empire

 United States
Italy Italy


Portugal Portugal
Commanders and leaders
German Empire Erich Ludendorff

France Ferdinand Foch
United Kingdom Douglas Haig
France Philippe Pétain
United States John Pershing Italy Alberico Albricci


Portugal Tamagnini de Abreu

This is the order of battle for Operation Michael, part of the German Spring Offensive fought from 21 March to 5 April 1918 as one of the main engagements of the First World War. It was fought between mixed French, British and Dominion forces and the German Empire in the Somme region in northern France.

German forces, Western Front

Army Group Crown Prince Rupprecht

Army Group German Crown Prince

Army Group Gallwitz

Army Group Duke Albrecht

British Fifth and Third armies

Fifth Army

General Sir Hubert Gough

US Army

Third Army

General Hon. Sir Julian Byng

French Group of Armies of Reserve

General Émile Fayolle

Third Army

General Georges Louis Humbert

First Army

General Marie-Eugène Debeney

Notes

  1. Staff only[4]
  2. Divisions were deployed separately[4]

Footnotes

Bibliography

  • Davies, C. B.; Edmonds, J. E.; Maxwell-Hyslop, R. G. B. (1935). Military Operations France and Belgium, 1918 The German March Offensive and its Preliminaries (IWM & Battery Press 1995 ed.). London: HMSO. ISBN 0-89839-219-5. 
  • Kitchen, Martin (2001). The German Offensives of 1918. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 0752417991. 

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