D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

‘John Doughfoot looked…’, Lieutenant George Wash, 224th Field Artillery Battalion, 29th Infantry Division, NA II 407/ 427/24242

‘an American on a white horse…’, Staff Sergeant Lester Zick, Anti-tank Company, 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC

Isigny, Edwin R. Schwartz, 747th Tank Battalion, NWWIIM-EC; Staff Sergeant Lester Zick, Anti-tank Company, 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC; and Balkoski, pp. 170-74

p. 159 ‘Rubble was everywhere…’, Lieutenant George Wash, 224th Field Artillery Battalion, 29th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24242

Generalleutnant von Schlieben, FMS B-845

‘17.00 hours went into…’, Captain Claude J. Mercer, 29th Field Artillery Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/ 427/24242

p. 160 Montebourg, Louis Lucet, MdC TE 107; and Valognes, MdC TE 111

Georgians at Turqueville, Captain Le GrandK.Johnson, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, NA II 407/427/24242

‘and Jerry went from one to another…’, Lieutenant George W. Goodridge, 44th Field Artillery Battalion, 4th Division, NA II 407/427/24240

‘Their throats had been cut…’, Captain Claude J. Mercer, 29th Field Artillery Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/ 427/24242

‘sniping coming from a building…’, Sergeant W. C. Cowards, 22nd Infantry, 4th Division, NA II 407/427/24242

p. 161 ‘France was like…’, Captain Robert E. Walker, 19th Infantry Division, WWII VS

‘couldn’t trust them in Normandy’, Pfc Robert Boyce, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, WWII VS

‘we saw in the ditches…’, Barnett Hoffner, 6th Engineer Special Brigade, NWWIIM-EC

Sgt Prybowski, Captain Elmer G. Koehler, Battalion Surgeon, 12th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24242

p. 162 Hill 30, Tomaso William Porcella, 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division; and Kenneth J. Merritt, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, NWWIIM-EC

‘There were so many…’, Edward C. Boccafogli, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC

90th Division firing at prisoners, Max Hastings, Overlord, London, 1989, p. 154

p. 163 ‘He was sitting out…’, Pogue, pp. 111-12

‘Collins and Bradley…’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940-1945, New York, 1974, p. 479

the ‘Treuelied’, Jean-Claude Perrigault and Rolf Meister, Gotz von Berlichingen, Bayeux, 2005, p. 77

‘Well, we don’t know…’, SS-Mann Johann H., 36 380 D =3.Kp./SS-Pi.Btl.17 17.SS-Pz.Gren.Div. 8 June, BfZ- SS

p. 164 ‘Turn round!’, Perrigault and Meister, p. 203

‘and push the enemy…’, Generalleutnant Richard Schimpf, 3rd Paratroop Division, FMS B-020

p. 165 ‘insufficient forces’, Generalmajor Max Pemsel commentary, FMS B-541

353rd Infanterie-Division, General Mahlmann, FMS A-983

hiding in barns and orchards, AdM 2 J 695

‘nocturnal game…’, Generalleutnant Kurt Badinski 276th Infanterie-Division, FMS B-526

SS Das Reich in France, Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg?, Munich, 2007, p. 361

p. 166 ‘the initiation of…’, IMT, Vol. XXXVII, quoted in Lieb, p. 364

For these and other killings, see Lieb, pp. 374-5 and AN AJ/41/56. According to one report, 108 were hanged in Tulle, AN AJ/41/56

Oradour, M. R. D. Foot, SOE in France, London, 1966, pp. 398-9

‘regions where a hideous…’, AN AJ/ 41/56

p. 167 ‘spray jobs’, Technical Sergeant Donald J. Walworth, 3rd Battalion, 26th Infantry, 1stDivision,NA II 407/427/24242

‘were in fact facing…’, Gordon A. Harrison, US Army in World War II, Washington, DC, 1951 p. 370

p. 168 ‘You people are always…’, Oberstleutnant Keil, FMS C-018

‘sly, underhand…’, Perrigault and Meister, p. 245

‘moderately high losses’, ibid., p. 247

p. 169 accusation against Heydte, FMS B-839; and Perrigault and Meister, p. 248

12. FAILURE AT CAEN

p. 170 ‘communications between division…’, Generalmajor Wilhelm Richter, 716th Infanterie-Division, FMS B-621

‘honeycombed with trenches, NA II 407/ 427/24200

p. 171 ‘under his command…’, TNA WO 208/4363

1st SS Panzer-Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, Taganrog, Sonke Neitzel (ed.), Tapping Hitler’s Generals, St Paul, Mn, 2007, p. 344, n. 93

p. 172 ‘It has taken…’, Generalmajor Wilhelm Richter, 716th Infanterie-Division, FMS B-621

‘Little fish!’, Shulman interview with Generalleutnant Edgar Feuchtinger, August 1945, Milton Shulman, Defeat in the West, London, 1988, p. 121

‘At a moment when…’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466

p. 173 ‘Fright reports’, Generalmajor Fritz Kramer, I SS Panzer Corps, FMS C-024

p. 174 ‘Action rear’, etc., Alastair Bannerman, 2nd Battalion Royal Warwicks, SWWEC 2001-819

Gruchy, Raymond Pouchin, MdC TE 86

Hitler Jugend in Cambes, Lieutenant, Cyril Rand, 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles, MdC TE 499

p. 175 ‘We were the first troops…’ and ‘After a very short time…’, Stanley Christopherson diary

p. 176 ‘fighter-bomber racecourse’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66

Panzer Lehr losses, see H. Ritgen, Die Geschichte der Panzer-Lehr Division im Westen, 1944- 1945, Stuttgart, 1979, p. 100, quoted in Niklas Zetterling, Normandy 1944, Winnipeg, 2000, p. 386

p. 177 ‘How can I live…’, ‘Aristocrats’, Keith Douglas, The Complete Poems, London, 2000, p. 117

‘I like you, sir’, Stuart Hills, By Tank into Normandy, London, 2002, p. 54

p. 178 ‘missed the psychological moment…’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466

‘Last time I was…’, Lieutenant Cyril Rand, 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles, MdC TE 499

p. 179 ‘When I looked to the left…’, Unterscharfuhrer Alois Morawetz, 3. Panzerkompanie, SS Panzer- Regiment 12, Hubert Meyer, The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division, Vol. I, Mechanicsburg, Pa., p. 188

‘I could have cried…’, ibid., p.191

p. 180 ‘He had tried to make…’, ibid., p.197

killing of prisoners in Normandy, TNA TS 26/856

‘about thirty Canadian…’, Nelly Quidot, MdC TE 228

killings at Abbaye d’Ardennes, Sergeant Frank Geoffrey, Royal Winnipeg Rifles, NWWIIM-EC

p. 181 ‘dare-devil’, Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg?, Munich, 2007, p. 163