What does OB stand for?

Oberkommando (German: High Command)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief operations officer of the Armed Forces High Command (the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, or OKW), suggested in a June 30, 1940, memo that crossing the channel should prove no more difficult than a river crossing.

Germany's fatal blunders: teutonic military history of the 20th ...

Kelly, "Strategy, Tactics, and Turf Wars: Tirpitz and the Oberkommando der Marine, 1892-1895," Journal of Military History 66 (October 2002), p.

Expectation, adaptation, and resignation: British battle fleet ...

From 1942 till the end, Hitler and the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht were to learn just how serious Harris and his American counterparts were in bringing death and destruction to the Third Reich as part of extirpating an evil regime that could not be brought to heel by anything but total defeat.

Henry Probert. Bomber Harris: His Life and Times

As a result of this agreement, and over the strenuous objections of Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine led by C-in-C Grossadmiral Raeder, the Kriegsmarine was ordered to launch Operation URSULA.

eLa Guerra Marina 1936-39: the Spanish Civil War at sea

On December 14,1941, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Armed Forces High Command), had given orders for the construction of defensive positions along the European coastline.

Desperate Hours on Omaha Beach

He told the Oberkommando des Heeres (German army high command, OKH) that the order would either have to be approved or a replacement would have to be found for him immediately.

Bloody Standoff at the Narva Bridgehead