D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

Lexington, Kentucky, 2006, pp. 127-8

bartering a truck-load of weapons, T/Sgt Eugene W. Griffin, 2nd Armored Division, WWII VS

‘a considerable laxity…’, Pogue, p. 87

pig roasting, Angelos Chatas (Naval Combat Demolition Unit), NWWIIM-EC

p. 210 ‘The [French] attitude is…’, NA II 407/427/212

‘The Mayor of Colleville…’, NA II 407/ 427/212

p. 211 ‘Hermann’s Vermin’, Cyrus C. Aydlett, USS Bayfield, NWWIIM-EC

‘despite undisputed air supremacy…’, Leigh-Mallory, 1 July, Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Air Force, TNA ADM 1/ 16332

p. 212 ‘an enemy sniper…’, Omar Bradley, A Soldier’s Story, New York, 1951, p. 292

‘When I saw that…’, John Troy, 8th Infantry, NWWIIM-EC

91st Luftlande-Division, Oberst Eugen Konig, FMS B-010

p. 214 ‘I was ordered to…’, Obergefreiter Hans S., 9.Kp./Gren.Rgt.1058, 91.(LL.) Inf.Div., 13 273 B, 7 July, BfZ-SS

‘a burly professor…’, Martin Blumenson, The Duel for France, New York, 2000, pp. 20-21

‘a pudgy man…’, ibid., p. 11

‘The commander-in-chief…’, Generalleutnant von Choltitz, LXXXIV Corps, FMS B-418

‘he had lived a life…’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66

‘the war was lost’, Generalleutnant von Choltitz, LXXXIV Corps, FMS B-418 p. 215 ‘refreshingly open-minded’, LHCMA Liddell Hart 11/1944/7

‘Montebourg and Valognes…’, TNA WO 205/5B

‘a Cub plane…’, operation of air support parties, NA II 407/427/24204

p. 216 Mulberry and gale, ‘Artificial Harbours in Operation Overlord’, TNA ADM 1/17204

‘The only chance…’, Dean Rockwell, US Navy, NWWIIM-EC

‘It took us about…’, Werner Hugo Saenger, LST 27, NWWIIM-EC

‘I thank the gods…’, J. M. Stagg, Forecast for Overlord, London, 1971, p. 126

‘never really believed…’, Colonel Thomas Bigland, Montgomery’s personal liaison officer to First US Army, then 12th Army Group, SWWEC 99-10

p. 217 tonnage and vehicles landed in August, Normandy Base Section Communications Zone, 8 September, Com Z, NA II 407/427/24133

‘a bit of plunder’, Oberst a.D. Dr Hans Kessler, BA-MA MSg 2/249

‘The men were tired…’, Lieutenant William Priestman, 315th Infantry, NA II 407/ 427/24242

p. 218 ‘K Company…’, Lieutenant John E. Cunningham, 314th Infantry, 79th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24242

‘We fired back…’, Karl Hohmann, RAD, MdC TE 506

‘any part of the garrison…’, Colonel Bernard B. MacMahon, 315th Infantry, 79th Division, NA II 407/427/24242

p. 219 ‘At eight-thirty…’, Lieutenant John R. Blackburn, Sky Control Officer, USS Quincy, NWWIIM-EC

‘It was a beautiful…’, Rear Admiral Carleton F. Bryant, USN, Commander Battleship Division 5, MdC TE 173

p. 220 ‘Immediately we opened fire’, K. Jump, SWWEC T 1823

armoured bulldozers, Lieutenant Colonel H. A. Delo, 346th Engineers, NA II 407/ 427/24242

display of strength, Lieutenant Ralph Powell, Cannon Company, 47th Infantry, 9th Division, NA II 407/427/24241

‘had drunk enough…’, NA II 407/427/ 24242

p. 221 ‘sound common sense’, Oberstleutnant Keil, FMS C-018

‘Final battle for Cherbourg…’, Generalleutnant Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben, 709th Infantry Division, FMS B- 845

‘Some of the boys…’, Lieutenant John A. Le Trent, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24242

‘We saw a few women snipers…’, Sergeant Walter M. Hedrick, 22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24242

Organisation Todt workers, BA-MA RH 19 iv/132, quoted in Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg?, Munich, 2007, p. 168

‘The Teutonic tendency…’, Captain Elmer G. Koehler, Battalion surgeon, 12th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/ 427/24242

p. 220 ‘That was quite…’, Clayton Storeby, 326th Airborne Engineer Battalion, NWWIIM-EC

‘The Germans have left…’, Pogue, p. 135

‘amassive under ground wine cellar’, Bradley, p. 314

Hitler and Schlieben, General Warlimont, ETHINT 1

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p. 223 ‘Field Marshal Rommel is…’, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247

Channel Islands and Nebelwerfer Brigades, General Warlimont, ETHINT 4

p. 224 ‘Jungle Tiger Tactics’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466

‘[Hitler] looked unhealthy…’, Speidel, FMS C-017. The description of this meeting is based on the accounts by Speidel, Rundstedt (FMS B-633), Blumentritt, chief of staff OB West (FMS B-284), and Hitler’s Luftwaffe adjutant, Nicolaus von Below (Als Hitlers Adjutant, 1937-1945, Mainz, 1980)

p. 225 withdrawal of six to ten miles and ‘a long auto-suggestive speech’, General der Infanterie Blumentritt, debriefing 6 August 1945, NA II 407/427/24231

‘That was the last thing…’, Below, p. 375

‘everything would depend…’, Blumentritt, Chief of Staff OB West, FMS B-284 p. 226 ‘What principally bothers…’, Mollie Panter-Downes, London War Notes, London, 1971, pp. 330-31

‘eerie howl of sirens’, Cyrus C. Aydlett, USS Bayfield, NWWIIM-EC

War Cabinet, 16 June, LHCMA Liddell Hart 11/1944/38

‘These things…’, Wing Commander R. Beamont, SWWEC T537

p. 227 Director General of Gendarmerie’s report, General Martin, AN AJ/41/56

‘with a pathetic wail…’, Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries 1939-1945, London, 2001, p. 562 (27 June)

Agent ‘Lector’, TNA HW 40/6

p. 228 ‘Battle is going well…’, Montgomery to Churchill, 14 June, TNA PREM 3/339/8

‘We formed up…’, G. Steer, 1/4th

King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, SWWEC 2002.1644

p. 229 ‘There’s no need to tell Ike’, LHCMA, LHP/1/230/22-23a p. 231 ‘The German trick…’, Peter Rubie, CWM/MCG 58A 1 40.7

‘on turning a corner…’, Stanley Christopherson diary

‘The order came to us…’, G. Steer 1/ 4th King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, SWWEC 2002.1644

p. 232 Ultra on Panzer Lehr, 27 June, TNA KV 9826

‘like strange fungi…’, John Keegan, Six Armies in Normandy, London, 1992, p. 174

‘were much amused…’, Aidan Sprot, Swifter than Eagles, Edinburgh, 1998, p. 120 ‘It’s a vision…’, Felix Drougard, MdC TE 3

p. 233 ‘the enemy which has…’, 9th SS Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen, BA-MA MSg