D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

‘His helmet was off…’, Brugger, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC

p. 108 ‘who was calmly…’, NA II 407/ 427/24034

‘individually they were…’, NA II 407/ 427/24034

‘Those jagged sharp bones…’, Herbert Zafft, 29th Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘As I drew near him…’, Colin H. Mc-Laurin, 115th Infantry, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘Smoke, dust from…’, NA II 407/427/ 24034

French civilians in Vierville, Howie journal, NA II 407/427/24151

p. 109 Cota and Vierville exit, NA II 407/ 427/24034

landed 18,772 men, NA II 407/427/24235

p. 110 ‘wounded can no longer…’, telephone log, 352. I.D., 17.10 hours, FMS B-388

identifying the presence of the 352nd Infanterie-Division, letter from Captain Fred Gercke, 27 June, NA II 407/427/24011

smell of burnt flesh, Roy Arnn, 146th Combat Engineer Battalion attached to 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘I saw one young soldier…’, Captain Benjamin A. Payson, 60th Medical Battalion, MdC TE 291

p. 111 treatment on Omaha, Lieutenant (MC) Alfred A. Schiller, USN, CWM/ MCG 58A

‘What am I going to do?…’, Frank Feduik, pharmacist on LST, NWWIIM-EC

‘left alone to whatever…’, Vincent J. del Giudice, pharmacist, USS Bayfield, NWWIIM-EC

p. 112 Gerow landing, NA II 407/427/ 24235

29th Infantry Division command post, NA II 407/427/24034

‘assumed that everyone…’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War, Lexington, Kentucky, 2001, p. 83

Casualty figures, see Harrison, p. 330; and NA II 407/427/5919

‘He knew better…’, George Roach, Company A, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC

Bedford casualties, see James W. Morrison, Bedford Goes to War: The Heroic Story of a Small Virginia Community in World War II, Lynchburg, Va., 2006; and George D. Salaita, ‘Embellishing Omaha Beach’, Journal of Military History, April 2008, pp. 531-4

p. 113 German losses on the eastern front and in Normandy, Niklas Zetterling, Normandy 1944, Winnipeg, 2000, p. 434

8. UTAH AND THE AIRBORNE

p. 114 German soldiers and American containers, Rainer Hartmetz, NWWIIM-EC

‘The war game has…’, Generalleutnant Karl-Wilhelm Graf von Schlieben, 709th Infanterie-Division, FMS B- 845

p. 115 ‘American prisoners with…’, Montebourg, Fernand Louvoy, MdC TE 38

‘A soldier had his leg…’, Brigadier General David E. Thomas, NWWIIM-EC

p. 116 Chateau de Hauteville, Briand N. Beaudin, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC

discovery of ford, NA II 407/427/ 24206

p. 118 ‘odd-shaped sea-monsters…’, Howard van der Beek, USS LCC 60a, NWWIIM-EC

‘met General Roosevelt…’, NA II 407/ 427/24204

‘more like guerrilla fighting’, NA II 407/ 427/24242

‘Captain, how in the hell…’, Folder Birra, Alfred F., DDEL

p. 119 ‘walked their fire…’, NA II 407/ 427/24240

‘they could not be trusted’, John Capell, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘duringthebriefings…’,NA II 407/427/ 24242

Le Molay, Daniele Hofler, MdC, TE 71

patrols over south-western approaches, R. L. Delashaw, 405th Fighter Group, USAAC, NWWIIM-EC

p. 120 ‘Achtung! Minen!’, John L. Ahearn, 70th Tank Battalion, NWWIIM-EC

20th Field Artillery, 4th Infantry Division, Staff Sergeant Alfred Donald Allred, NWWIIM-EC

‘French people, of course…’, William E. Jones, 4th Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC

p. 121 ‘came across a little…’, Captain Carroll W. Wright, 33rd Chemical Company, NWWIIM-EC

‘a German soldier lying dead…’, John A. Beck, 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion with 4th Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘We had to kill most…’, Lieutenant John A. Le Trent, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24242

p. 122 ‘There isn’t much left…’, R. R. Hughart, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC

325th Glider Infantry Regiment, NA II 407/427/24206

p. 123 ‘They look as though they’re from Sing Sing’, Heinz Puschmann, 6th Paratroop Regiment, private account

‘as if it were a movie…’, Jean Roger, Saint-Lo, MdC TE 316

‘Windows and doors…’, MdC TE 285 p. 124 escape into the countryside, Michele Chapron, MdC TE 278

9. GOLD AND JUNO

p. 125 ‘Is this the landing?’, Andre Heintz diary, MdC TE 32 (1-4)

‘Do you think…’, MdC TE 149

‘Yes, it is indeed…’, Marianne Daure, MdC TE 48

p. 126 boulangeries in Caen, Marcel Ehly, MdC TE 11

Germans ‘requisitioning’ alcohol, Madeleine Betts-Quintaine, MdC TE 25

‘They’re landing!…’, Marianne Daure, MdC TE 48

evacuation orders, Nadine Speck, MdC TE 2

‘Continual telephone calls…’, Generalleutnant Speidel, FMS B-718

p. 127 Blumentritt’s calls, FMS B-284

p. 128 ‘Once you stop on the beach…’, Major George Young, Green Howards, SWWEC T2452

p. 129 ‘a sort of aquatic turnpike…’, Clifford H. Sinnett, USNR, LST 530, NWWIIM-EC

p. 130 ‘Never in my wildest dreams…’, Stanley Christopherson diary

p. 131 Keller, Mark Zuehlke, Juno Beach, Toronto, 2005, pp. 31-2

‘Operation Overboard’, ibid., p. 84; and Papers of Frank A. Osmanski, G-4 SHAEF, USAMHI

HMS Belfast, Tony Hugill diary, CAC HUGL 1

Canadian vessels in Overlord, NA II 407/ 427/24200

p. 132 ‘Nearly every foot…’, NA II 407/ 427/24200; and Terry Copp, Fields of Fire, Toronto, 2003, p. 48

Fort Garry Horse tanks, Sergeant Bill Hudson, A Troop, 48 Royal Marine Commando, MdC TE 84; and Zuehlke, p. 202

Bernieres-sur-Mer, NA II 407/427/ 24200; Zuehlke, p. 219; and Copp, p. 52

p. 133 ‘But what do you expect?…’, Louise Hamelin, MdC TE 222

‘I don’t want to see…’, J. Kyle, SWWEC T1094

p. 135 ‘At Carpiquet…’, Ultra intercept passed by ‘C’ to Churchill on 11 June, Luftflotte 3, TNA HW 1/2927