D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

Normandy Campaign 1944, London, 2006, p. 95

p. 369 326th Infanterie-Division, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/106

21st Panzer-Division, FMS B-631

3rd Scots Guards, Major Charles Farrell, SWWEC 2001.960

‘wearing only a vest…’, Alexander McKee, Caen, London, 1965, p. 308 p. 370 Coastal battery at Granville and Aulock Kampfgruppe, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86

‘unforgettable sight…’, Gefreiter Spiekerkotter, 2nd Pionier Kompanie, 256th Infanterie-Division, BA-MA MSg 2/5526

p. 371 ‘The situation is extraordinarily…’, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86

‘a most forceful order…’, Telephone Journal, Seventh Army, NA II 407/427/ 6431

Kluge to Eberbach, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/106

‘under all circumstances…’, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86

p. 372 ‘Do not stop…’ and ‘facetiously suggested…’, General Doyle O. Hickey, Combat Command A, 3rd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24088

p. 373 action in Brecey, Captain Carlton Parish Russell, 36th Armored Infantry Regiment, 3rd Armored Division, WWII VS

‘more dangerous than…’, Daily Operations, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/ 427/6431

‘a very jolly…’, Charles Whiting, Papa Goes to War, Marlborough, 1990, p. 66

p. 374 ‘take the first picture…’, Robert Capa, Slightly out of Focus, New York, 1947, p. 168

looting and lynch mob in Granville, Commissariat de Police de Granville, AdM 1370 W 1

‘Ah, Monsieur…’, anon., MdC TE 388

‘Our boys got their souvenirs…’, Lieutenant D. S. Woodward, 69th Tank Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/ 427/24241

p. 375 Resistance attack in the Landes, LCMHA Misc 24

armoured train derailed Souillac, TNA DEFE 3/62

‘throughout history…’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940-1945, New York, 1974, p. 493

‘As many troops as possible…’, XV Corps, NA II 407/427/24203

p. 376 ‘Gentlemen, this breakthrough…’, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247

‘The enemy is not under any circumstances…’, Hans Speidel, We Defended Normandy, London, 1951, p. 138

‘round the corner into Brittany’, NA II 407/427/6431

p. 377 ‘One of our trucks…’, Lieutenant Colonel Teague, 22nd Infantry, NA II 407/ 427/24021

VIII Corps and First Army prisoners, Martin Blumenson, The Duel for France, New York, 2000, pp. 143-4 and 150

prisoners of 8th Division, Captain Graham V. Chamblee, 13th Infantry, 8th Division, NA II 407/427/24241

‘We passed columns…’, 29th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24034

rumours of German withdrawal to the Seine, Oberstleutnant Friedrich Freiherr von der Heydte, 6th Paratroop Regiment, FMS B-839

‘As we came over the crest…’, Lieutenant Colonel Johnson and Captain Wright, 12th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24203

p. 378 ‘in a state of jitters’, Captain Wright, NA II 407/427/24203

Captain Ware’s account, NA II 407/427/ 24203

p. 379 ‘The small number of Germans…’, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/ 6431

‘had a shattering effect…’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, ETHINT 66

23. BRITTANY AND OPERATION BLUECOAT

p. 381 ‘a written declaration…’, SHD-DAT 13 P 33

‘intensify general guerrilla activity…’, SHD-DAT 13 P 33

‘a second General Patton…’, Lieutenant Harold H. Goodman, 13th Infantry, 8th Division, NA II 407/427/24241

‘a brawny, jovial type’, Martin Blumenson, The Duel for France, New York, 2000, p. 166 p. 382 French Resistance in Rennes, 2nd Lieutenant Edward W. Overman, 90th Division, NA II 407/427/24242

relief of prisoners of war, Lieutenant Harold H. Goodman, 8th Division, NA II 407/427/24241

‘One paratrooper…’, Captain Joseph Gray, 13th Infantry, 8th Division, NA II 407/427/24241

p. 383 ‘What in hell…’,Blumenson, p. 176

‘General Patton’s Household Cavalry’, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Goodwin, 6th Cavalry Group, NA II 407/427/24242

‘every night from…’, Captain John C. Donley, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/ 427/24241

p. 384 ‘The first thing we did…’, Lieutenant D. S. Woodward, 69th Tank Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/ 24241

‘pony express’, William M. King, 44th Armored Infantry Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24241

replacements in Brittany, Captain John C. Donley, 44th Armored Infantry Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/ 24241

‘better than expected…’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940-1945, New York, 1974, p. 541

‘They aided in loading…’, William M. King, 44th Armored Infantry Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24241

‘with the help of terrorists’, 6 August, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87

‘Terroristenfuhrer’, 6 August, Ob. West Tagesmeldungen, BA-MA RH 19 iv/45

‘battles with terrorists…’, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87

massacres in Finisterre, Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg? , Munich, 2007, pp. 576 and 579

Eon and Passy, SHD-DAT 13 P 33 p. 385 Ramcke in Brest, see Lieb, pp. 483-4

‘to get a Hermann Goering…’, Lieutenant Harold H. Goodman, 8th Division, NA II 407/427/24241

‘courteously got rid of…’, Lieutenant Harold H. Goodman, 8th Division, NA II 407/427/24241

‘It was entirely wiped out!’, TNA WO 208/4364

‘The townspeople were so nice…’ and ‘We had a hair-cutting party…’, Lieutenant Harold H. Goodman, 8th Division, NA II 407/427/24241

p. 386 ‘I would not say this…’, Blumenson (ed.), p. 532

p. 387 Leclerc’s attitude to British, Christian Girard, Journal de Guerre, Paris, 2000, p. 80

‘Even for us Gaullists…’, Marc de Possesse, MdC TE 361

‘a uniform different…’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War, Lexington, Kentucky, 2001, p. 178

p. 388 2eme DB landing on Utah beach, Marc de Possesse, MdC TE 361

French villagers marking mines, Alexander McKee, Caen, London, 1965, p. 315

‘Over in the next field…’, Sergeant Kite, 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, BA-MA MSg 2/ 4837

p. 389 reinforcement of Vire, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923

‘The woods seemed to cast…’, Colonel Tom Gilliam, B Company, 2nd Infantry, 5th Infantry Division, MdC TE 124