= landing zone
ME = Middle East
MG = Mobile Group
MT = motor transport
ops = operations
Para = Parachute
PG = Panzer Grenadier
Pz = Panzer
SRS = Special Raiding Squadron
TF = Task Force
TG = Tactical Group
US = United States
Principal Personalities
American
Major Mark Alexander
Commander, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division
Staff Sergeant James Altieri
Fox Company, 4th Ranger Battalion
Lieutenant-General Omar M. Bradley
Commander, II Corps
Lieutenant John Mason Brown
Journalist and US Navy Reserve officer serving on USS Ancon
Lieutenant James M. ‘Jimmy’ Bruno
Co-pilot, 99th Bomb Group
Harry Butcher
Naval aide to General Eisenhower
Lieutenant Max Corvo
Intelligence officer, Office of Strategic Services
Lieutenant Charlie Dryden
Pilot, 99th Fighter Squadron
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean
Lieutenant Warren ‘Bing’ Evans
Company F, 3rd Battalion, Army Rangers
Lieutenant Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Serving on USS Monrovia
Colonel James M. ‘Jim’ Gavin
Commander, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Private Eugene ‘Breezy’ Griffin
HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, 41st Armored Infantry Regiment, 2nd Armored Division
Captain Chester B. ‘Chet’ Hansen
Aide to General Omar Bradley, II Corps HQ
Lieutenant Franklyn A. Johnson
Cannon Company, 3rd Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division
Corporal Audie Murphy
B Company, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry
Lieutenant-General George S. Patton
Commander, Seventh Army
Ernie Pyle
War correspondent for the Scripps Howard syndicate
Sergeant Carl Rambo
1st Platoon, Company B, 70th Light Tank Battalion
Lieutenant Charlie Scheffel
S-3 Staff Officer, 1st Battalion, 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division
Lieutenant-General Carl ‘Tooey’ Spaatz
Commander, USAAF North-West African Air Force
Lieutenant Robert ‘Smoky’ Vrilakas
P-38 pilot, 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group
British
General Sir Harold Alexander
Commander-in-Chief, 15th Army Group
Lieutenant-Colonel George Chatterton
CO, Glider Pilot Regiment, Airlanding Brigade, 1st Airborne Division
Corporal Bill Cheall
6th Battalion the Green Howards, 69th Brigade, 5th Division
Captain David Cole
2nd