Order of battle for Operation Nordwind

Operation Nordwind was launched by German ground forces on 31 December 1944 against U.S. and French ground forces in the Rhineland-Palatinate and the Alsace and Lorraine regions of southwestern Germany and northeastern France as part of the European Theatre in World War II. It ended on 25 January 1945.

North of Strasbourg
Allied Forces

Sixth Army Group Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers

Forces deployed North to South:

US Seventh Army Lieutenant General Alexander McC. Patch
 * US XV Corps SSI.png XV Corps
 * Major General Wade H. Haislip
 * US 103rd Infantry Division.svg 103rd Infantry Division (Maj. Gen. Charles Haffner)
 * 44 INF DIV SSI.svg 44th Infantry Division (Brig. Gen. William F. Dean)
 * 100th Infantry Division SSI.svg 100th Infantry Division (Maj. Gen. Withers A. Burress)
 * 63rd Infantry Division SSI.svg 63rd Infantry Division (Brig. Gen. Frederick Harris)
 * US VI Corps SSI.png VI Corps
 * Major General Edward H. Brooks
 * 45th Infantry insignia (thunderbird).svg 45th Infantry Division (Maj. Gen. Robert Frederick)
 * 70th Infantry Division patch.svg 70th Infantry Division (Brig. Gen. Thomas Herren)
 * 42nd Infantry Division SSI.svg 42nd Infantry Division (Maj. Gen. Henry Linden)
 * 79th Infantry Division SSI.svg 79th Infantry Division (Maj. Gen. Ira Wyche)
 * 2eDB-insigne.jpg French 2nd Armored Division (Gen. Div. Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque)

Axis Forces

Army Group G Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz First Army Generalleutnant Hans von Obstfelder
 * 25. Infanterie-Division (Wehrmacht).svg 25th Panzergrenadier Division (Oberst Arnold Burmeister)
 * 21st Panzer Division logo.svg 21st Panzer Division (Generalleutnant Edgar Feuchtinger)
 * 6th SS Division Logo.svg 6th SS Mountain Division Nord (SS-Gruppenführer Karl-Heinrich Brenner)
 * XIII SS Corps
 * SS-Obergruppenführer Max Simon
 * 19th Volksgrenadier Division (Generalleutnant Walter Wißmath)
 * 36th Volksgrenadier Division (Generalmajor Helmut Kleikamp)
 * 17th SS Division Logo.svg 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen (SS-Standartenführer Hans Lingner)
 * XC Corps
 * General der Flieger Erich Petersen
 * 559th Volksgrenadier Division (Generalleutnant Kurt Freiherr von Mühlen)
 * 257th Volksgrenadier Division (Generalmajor Erich Seidel)
 * LXXXIX Corps
 * General der Infanterie Gustav Höhne
 * 361st Volksgrenadier Division (Generalmajor Alfred Philippi)
 * 245th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Edwin Sander)
 * 256th Volksgrenadier Division (Generalmajor Gerhard Franz)

South of Strasbourg (Colmar Pocket)
Allied Forces

Sixth Army Group (cont.) Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers

Forces deployed North to South:

French First Army Lieutenant General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
 * II Corps
 * Géneral Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert
 * Question Mark in a Circle.png 1st Armored Division (Gén. Aimé Sudré)
 * Insigne9emDIC.jpg 9th Colonial Infantry Division (Gén. Joseph Magnan)
 * Insigne 2° DIM.jpg 2nd Moroccan Infantry Division (Gén. Marcel Carpentier)
 * Question Mark in a Circle.png 4th Moroccan Mountain Division (Gén. Réne de Hesdin)
 * Insigne 5° DB.JPG 5th Armored Division (Gén. Henri de Vernejoul)
 * Insigne 10° DI FFI.jpg 10th Infantry Division   (Gén. Pierre Billotte)
 * XXI CORPS SSI.gif US XXI Corps
 * Major General Frank W. Milburn
 * 12th U.S. Armored Division CSIB.svg 12th Armored Division (Maj. Gen. Roderick R. Allen)
 * 14th US Armored Division SSI.svg 14th Armored Division (Maj. Gen. Albert Smith)
 * 36th Infantry Division CSIB.svg 36th Infantry Division (Maj. Gen. John Dahlquist)
 * I Corps
 * Géneral Antoine Béthouart
 * Insigne-1dlf-ghemard.jpg 1st Infantry March Division (Gén. Diego Brosset)
 * Insigne de la 3° DIA.JPG 3rd Algerian Infantry Division (Gén. Augustin Guillaume)

Axis Forces

Army Group Upper Rhine Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler Nineteenth Army General der Infanterie Siegfried Rasp
 * 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg (SS-Brigadeführer Heinz Harmel)
 * LXIV Corps
 * General der Infanterie Helmut Thumm
 * 189th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Eduard Zorn)
 * 198th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Otto Schiel)
 * 708th Volksgrenadier Division (Generalmajor Wilhelm Bleckwenn)
 * 16th Infantry Division
 * LXIII Corps
 * General der Infanterie Erich Abraham
 * 338th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Konrad Barde)
 * 159th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Heinrich Bürky)
 * 716th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Wolf Ewert)
 * 269th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Hans Wagner)
 * XIV SS Corps
 * SS-Obergruppenführer Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski
 * 553rd Volksgrenadier-Division (Generalmajor Gerhard Hüther)
 * 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg (from 15 January) (SS-Brigadeführer Heinz Harmel)