D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

German officer’s ring, Lieutenant Eugen Brierre, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC

p. 69 ‘Let’s go and find some Krauts to kill!’ and ‘These people had gone ape’, Sherman Oyler, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘Never before in the annals…’, Parker A. Alford, attached to 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, NWWIIM- EC

‘They couldn’t talk…’, Rainer Hartmetz, NWWIIM-EC

p. 70 ‘We threw him in the cart…’, Don Malarkey, E Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘After a short march…’, ‘we could hear…’and ‘Weimmediatelytriedtoaidthe injured…’, John Fitzgerald, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, NWWIIM-EC

p. 71 ‘The troop-carrying…’, Obergefreiter Hans S., 9.Kp./Gren.Rgt.1058, 91.(LL.) Inf.Div., BfZ-SS

p. 72 ‘Upon landing,…’, Charles E. Skid-more Jr, 439th Troop Carrier Squadron, NWWIIM-EC

‘You’ve now seen…’, Pfc Carl Cartledge, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, WWII VS

p. 73 ‘I am more thankful…’, Leigh-Mallory, letter 7 June, quoted Carlo D’Este, Eisenhower, New York, 2002, p. 530

6. THE ARMADA CROSSES

p. 74 Royal Navy in Operation Neptune, Naval Plan TNA ADM 1/16259

‘The Road to the Isles’, Piper Bill Millin, SWWEC T654/666

‘A-hunting We Will Go’, A. D. E. Curtis, R Force, SWWEC 2000.384

‘Marseillaise’, Dr Ian Campbell, RAMC, 2nd Field Dressing Station, SWWEC 2000.477

‘the traffic got thicker…’, Admiral G. B. Middleton, HMS Ramillies, letter 12 June, IWM 01/2/1

p. 75 ‘a mixture of excitement…’, Edwin Bramall, ‘D-Day Plus One’, in More Tales from the Travellers, Oxford, 2005, p. 147

memories of Dieppe, Rev. P. Symes, 4th County of London Yeomanry, SWWEC T563

‘as a last reminder’, Arthur Reddish, A Tank Soldier’s Story, privately published, undated, p. 21

‘The attempt to do…’, V Corps, NA II 407/427/24235

p. 76 Operation Taxable and other diversions, TNA ADM 179/410

p. 77 ‘Although attendance was…’, Ronald Seaborne, Royal Navy Forward Observer, 50th Division, NWWIIM-EC

gambling on USS Samuel Chase, Oscar Rich, 5th Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘All are tense…’, LofC ‘Even though huddled…’, Gardner Botsford, A Life of Privilege, Mostly, New York, 2003, p. 21

‘who was going to…’ and ‘My thoughts turned to…’, Everett P. Schultheis, 467th Anti-aircraft Artillery, NWWIIM-EC

‘Anyone who has…’, Harold Baumgarten, Eyewitness on Omaha Beach, Jacksonville, Fla., 1994, p. 7

‘Don’t worry…’, K. G. Oakley, RN Beach Commando, Sword Beach, IWM 96/ 22/1

p. 78 ‘approaching a great abyss…’, Cyrus C. Aydlett, USS Bayfield, NWWIIM- EC

USS Shubrick, Edward T. Duffy, US Navy, NWWIIM-EC

‘dramatic announcement’, William F. Rellstab Jr, 388th Bomber Group, 562nd Squadron, NWWIIM-EC

p. 79 ‘The preparations were staggering,’ Desmond Scott, Typhoon Pilot, London, 1982, p. 99

Allied squadrons involved in D-Day operations, RAF-MoD

p. 80 ‘to provide shelter…’, Weldon J. Allen, Pilot, 387th Bomb Group, diary, NWWIIM-EC

‘as much steak, pork…’, Theodore G. Aufort, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘wieners, beans…’, Sergeant Harry C. Bare, 116th Infantry, 29th Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘as if it were Nelson’s…’, Major George Young, Green Howards, SWWEC T2452

‘we might have been alongside…’, Ludovic Kennedy, SWWEC T320

‘skunk suits’, Vincent Schlotterbeck, NWWIIM-EC

‘nervously adjusting…’, Cyrus C. Aydlett, USS Bayfield, NWWIIM-EC

p. 81 ‘We crept still further in…’, Lieutenant J. G. Pelly, IWM 91/15/1

‘Attention on deck!…’, John Raaen, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC

Seekommandant Normandie, Auszug aus dem Fernsprechmeldebuch der 352. I. D., Kustenverteidigungsabschnitt Bayeux, FMS B-388

p. 82 duffel coats and cocoa, Jean-Louis Salmon, MdC TE 213

‘the whole horizon…’, Generalleutnant Joseph Reichert, 711th Infanterie-Division, FMS B-403

smokescreen, Admiral G. B. Middleton, HMS Ramillies, letter 12 June, IWM 01/2/1

p. 83 ‘The screen was literally…’, Anthony Drexel Duke, NWWIIM-EC

‘Get your damn helmet on’, Kenneth Romanski, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM- EC

‘During this half-hour…’, Major Dallas, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry, 29th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24034

p. 84 ‘Good hunting, Rangers!’, Lieutenant Francis W. Dawson, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC

‘the loneliest time…’, Alfred F. Birra, 237th Engineers with 4th Infantry Division, Folder Birra, Alfred F., DDEL

‘That, sirs…’, John Raaen, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC

‘The big guns…’, Ludovic Kennedy, SWWEC T320

‘It was a strange sight…’, Robert L. Bogart, Staff Sergeant, 1st Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘The other landing-craft…’, Vernon Scannell, Argument of Kings, London, 1987, p. 145

p. 85 ‘started throwing up…’, Kenneth Romanski, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM- EC

senior officer in Jeep, Ronald Seaborne, Royal Navy Forward Observer, 50th Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘to be a bloody…’, Stanley Christopherson diary

‘Floater, five thousand!’, Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, diary, SWWEC T501

p. 86 ‘Off Asnelles…’, 352nd Infanterie-Division, 6 June log, Bayeux Sector, FMS B-388

‘Fancy having…’, David Howarth, Dawn of D-Day, London, 1959, p. 185

rocket bombardment of Cabourg, conversation M. R. D. Foot

‘missed the target entirely…’, Combat Team, 16th Infantry, NA II 407/427/5927 p. 87 ‘Well, Ike…’, PDDE 1588- 9

7. OMAHA

p. 88 description of Omaha, V Corps, NA II 407/427/24235

For Gerow and the planning of the Omaha operation see especially Adrian R. Lewis, Omaha Beach — A Flawed Victory, North Carolina, 2001

p. 90 ‘the greatest firepower…’, Harry C. Butcher, Three Years with Eisenhower,