Juno Beach order of battle

Infantrie-Divisionen 716.
Wehrmacht 716 Infantry Division
Active	June 1944
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Wehrmacht Heeren
Type	Static Infantry (Bodenständigen)
Role	Coastal Defence KVA Caen
Size	Division (~8,000 men)
Garrison/HQ	Calvados: Baie-de-Seine
Engagements	Normandy Landings

This is the Juno Beach order of battle on D-Day.

3rd Canadian Infantry Division Divisional Troops

7th Canadian Infantry (Assault) Brigade Group – Mike Green / Mike Red and Nan Green Beaches

8th Canadian Infantry (Assault) Brigade Group – Nan White and Nan Red Beaches

9th Canadian Infantry Brigade – Landing through 8th CIB on Nan Beaches

Supporting corps divisional units integrated in Mike Sector and Nan Sector

British forces on Juno beach included units from Second Army and Combined Operations Headquarters

102 Beach Sub-Area

Force J was commanded by the British, and the flagship vessel came from the Royal Navy. Among the chief vessels in this combined British and Canadian Force were

The force also included 109 Royal Canadian Navy vessels, among them:

Landing craft from both the RN and RCN were employed in Force J, the total number were:

Standing against the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, units of, 716.Infanterie-Division (Static) – Wehrmacht Heer Coastal Defence (Bodenständigen), had little tactical mobility and its personnel, in general, belonged to the lowest category of conscript, coming from older age groups or from the Landsturm: Military District 6. While the division in Normandy with the fewest personnel; fronting the JUNO Sector, its density of troops was a little stronger than elsewhere. The division had no combat experience before D-Day, and on 1 May 1944 it only had 7,771 personnel of all ranks.

The 716. Infanterie-Division consisted of:

Panzer-Division 21., belonging to XXXXVII Pz.Gr.West, was allocated to AOK.7 (Army Group B) as its (only) reserve. Pz.Div.21 was reconstituted on 15 July 1943, in the reorganization of schnellen Brigade West (SB 931). Pz.Div.21 was absent from Normandy from March 1944, for Operation Maragretha, in Hungary, until May 1944, when it was reassigned to Brittany, and then moved up into Normandy. On 6 June 1944, Panzer-Division 21., on its initiative, adopted a 'new' organization for battle, as Regimental (Brigade) Groups were formed, PzKGr.Oppeln - Pz.Regt.22., and KGr.Luck - Pz.Gren-Regt 125., they regrouping an infantry battalion for a tank battalion, and KGr.Rauch - Pz.Gren-Regt192., was formed, given Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment 155., assigned a battalion to each Kampfgruppe. The Canadians, coming South, from Juno Beach, did not experience a direct impact from either PzKGr.Oppeln or KGr.Luck and only felt a slight impact, in their area of influence, from the counter-move undertaken by KGr.Rauch, on 6 June.