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 | |
| June 1944 | Eisenhower 6 Jun 1944 8 May 1945 | Montgomery 6 Jun 1944 8 May 1945 | von Rundstedt 6 Jun 1944 2 Jul 1944 | Rommel 6 Jun 1944 17 Jul 1944 | Blaskowitz 6 Jun 1944 21 Sep 1944 | |||||
| July 1944 | Bradley 14 Jul 1944 8 May 1945 | von Kluge 2 Jul 1944 16 Aug 1944 | von Kluge 19 Jul 1944 17 Aug 1944 | |||||||
| August 1944 | Devers 1 Aug 1944 8 May 1945 | Model 16 Aug 1944 3 Sep 1944 | Model 17 Aug 1944 21 Apr 1945 | |||||||
| September 1944 | von Rundstedt 3 Sep 1944 11 Mar 1945 | |||||||||
| October 1944 | Balck 21 Sep 1944 24 Dec 1944 | |||||||||
| November 1944 | Student 1 Nov 1944 28 Jan 1945 | |||||||||
| December 1944 | Himmler 10 Dec 1944 23 Jan 1945 Hausser 24 Jan 1945 28 Jan 1945 | |||||||||
| January 1945 | Blaskowitz 24 Dec 1944 29 Jan 1945 | |||||||||
| February 1945 | Hausser 29 Jan 1945 2 Apr 1945 | Blaskowitz 28 Jan 1945 15 Apr 1945 | ||||||||
| March 1945 | Kesselring 11 Mar 1945 8 May 1945 | |||||||||
| April 1945 | Schulz 2 Apr 1945 6 May 1945 | |||||||||
| May 1945 | Busch 15 Apr 1945 7 May 1945 | |||||||||