Operation Goodwood order of battle

Operation Goodwood was an offensive operation by the British Army against the German Wehrmacht, which took place between 18 and 20 July 1944 as part of the larger battle for Caen in Normandy, France during the Second World War. While Goodwood failed in its primary aim, it forced the Germans to keep powerful formations opposite the British and Canadians on the eastern flank of the Normandy beachhead and Operation Cobra, the First US Army attack which began on 25 July, caused the weaker German defences opposite to collapse. Second Army Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey Army troops 4th Army Group Royal Artillery 8th Army Group Royal Artillery 79th Armoured Division (elements) Major-General Percy Hobart 5th Assault Regiment, Royal Engineers (Churchill AVRE) 22nd Dragoons (Sherman Crab mine flails) 141st Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps (Churchill Crocodile flamethrower tanks) 1st Lothians and Border Horse (Sherman Crabs) I Corps Lieutenant-General John Crocker Corps troops 27th Armoured Brigade 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) 1st East Riding Yeomanry 3rd Infantry Division Major-General Lashmer Whistler Divisional troops 3rd (Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) Reconnaissance Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps 7th, 33rd, 76th Field Regiments, Royal Artillery 20th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery 20th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (machine gun battalion) 8th Infantry Brigade 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment 1st Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) 9th Infantry Brigade 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers 2nd Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles 185th Infantry Brigade 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment 2nd Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry 33rd Armoured Brigade (attached) 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry Staffordshire Yeomanry 144th Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps 148th Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps 51st (Highland) Infantry Division Major-General D.