Order of battle for the Spring Offensive explained

See main article: Operation Michael and German spring offensive.

Conflict:German Spring Offensive, 1918
Partof:the Western Front of World War I
Date:21 March – 18 July 1918
Place:Northern France; West Flanders, Belgium
Result:See Aftermath section
Combatant2: France
British Empire

United States
Italy
Portugal

Commander1: Erich Ludendorff
Commander2: Ferdinand Foch
Douglas Haig
Philippe Pétain
John J. Pershing
Alberico Albricci
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 theGerman Empire in the Somme region in northern France.

German forces, Western Front

British armies

Fifth Army

General Sir Hubert Gough

US Army

Third Army

General Hon. Sir Julian Byng

General Émile Fayolle

Third Army

General Georges Louis Humbert

First Army

General Marie-Eugène Debeney

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