This article is a tabular depiction of those generals who held command at the army group echelon or higher on the Western Front of World War II during 1944-1945, and is intended to serve as a reference that can be linked to by other World War II articles. Headquarters and commander names are linked for ease of reference.
| Tenures of command on the Western Front in the Second World War, 1944-1945[1] [2] [3] [4] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Month | SHAEF | 21st Army Group | 12th Army Group | 6th Army Group | OB West (OB Süd after 22 Apr 1945) | Army Group B | Army Group G | Army Group H (OB Nordwest after 7 Apr 1945) | OB Oberrhein | ||||||||
| ROWSPAN=1 style="background:#ccc;" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray;" | June 1944 | ROWSPAN=12 | Eisenhower 6 Jun 1944 8 May 1945 | ROWSPAN=12 | Montgomery 6 Jun 1944 8 May 1945 | ROWSPAN=1 style="background-color:Chocolate; color:white;" | ROWSPAN=2 style="background-color:Chocolate; color:white;" | von Rundstedt 6 Jun 1944 2 Jul 1944 | Rommel 6 Jun 1944 17 Jul 1944 | ROWSPAN=4 | Blaskowitz 6 Jun 1944 21 Sep 1944 | ROWSPAN=5 style="background-color:gray; color:white;" | ROWSPAN=6 style="background-color:gray; color:white;" | ||||
| ROWSPAN=1 style="background:#ccc;" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray;" | July 1944 | ROWSPAN=11 | Bradley 14 Jul 1944 8 May 1945 | ROWSPAN=1 | von Kluge 2 Jul 1944 16 Aug 1944 | ROWSPAN=1 | von Kluge 19 Jul 1944 17 Aug 1944 | ||||||||||
| ROWSPAN=1 style="background:#ccc;" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray;" | August 1944 | ROWSPAN=10 | Devers 1 Aug 1944 8 May 1945 | ROWSPAN=1 | Model 16 Aug 1944 3 Sep 1944 | ROWSPAN=9 | Model 17 Aug 1944 21 Apr 1945 | ||||||||||
| ROWSPAN=1 style="background:#ccc;" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray;" | September 1944 | ROWSPAN=6 | von Rundstedt 3 Sep 1944 11 Mar 1945 | ||||||||||||||
| ROWSPAN=1 style="background:#ccc;" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray;" | October 1944 | ROWSPAN=3 | Balck 21 Sep 1944 24 Dec 1944 | ||||||||||||||
| ROWSPAN=1 style="background:#ccc;" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray;" | November 1944 | ROWSPAN=3 | Student 1 Nov 1944 28 Jan 1945 | ||||||||||||||
| ROWSPAN=1 style="background:#ccc;" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray;" | December 1944 | ROWSPAN=2 | Himmler 10 Dec 1944 23 Jan 1945 Hausser 24 Jan 1945 28 Jan 1945 | ||||||||||||||
| ROWSPAN=1 style="background:#ccc;" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray;" | January 1945 | ROWSPAN=1 | Blaskowitz 24 Dec 1944 29 Jan 1945 | ||||||||||||||
| ROWSPAN=1 style="background:#ccc;" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray;" | February 1945 | ROWSPAN=2 | Hausser 29 Jan 1945 2 Apr 1945 | ROWSPAN=3 | Blaskowitz 28 Jan 1945 15 Apr 1945 | ROWSPAN=4 style="background-color:gray; color:white;" | |||||||||||
| ROWSPAN=1 style="background:#ccc;" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray;" | March 1945 | ROWSPAN=3 | Kesselring 11 Mar 1945 8 May 1945 | ||||||||||||||
| ROWSPAN=1 style="background:#ccc;" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray;" | April 1945 | ROWSPAN=2 | Schulz 2 Apr 1945 6 May 1945 | ||||||||||||||
| ROWSPAN=1 style="background:#ccc;" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray;" | May 1945 | ROWSPAN=1 style="background-color:gray; color:white;" | ROWSPAN=1 | Busch 15 Apr 1945 7 May 1945 | |||||||||||||