D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

Kluge’s letter to Hitler, quoted in Milton Shulman, Defeat in the West, London, 1986, pp. 174-7

p. 464 ‘able to drive by car…’, Generalmajor Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, Chief of Staff Seventh Army, ETHINT 59

shape of Falaise pocket, General Mahlmann, 353rd Infantry Division, FMS A-984

II Panzer Corps in Foret de Gouffern, Eberbach, FMS A-922

‘In other words…’, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923

panzer soldier playing Viennese waltzes, Marcel Labussiere, MdC TE 471

‘We have had a warm welcome…’, Captain S. Beck, 18 August, MdC TE 570

‘While I was talking to the Brigadier…’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 19 August, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T 501

p. 465 1st Polish Armoured Division reorganizes, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1

Model’s conference on 18 August, Eberbach, FMS A-922, and Generalmajor Freiherr von Gersdorff, written answers submitted October 1945, NA II 407/427/24231 p. 466 ‘The black mushrooms…’, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923

‘We rippled the rockets…’, Michael Veitch, Tom Hall, Sydney, 2006, p. 113

‘On the road great heaps…’, General der Panzertruppen Freiherr von Luttwitz, FMS A-903

Eberhard Beck, 277th Artillerie-Regiment, 277th Infantry Division, BA-MA MSg 2/3242

Allied air claims on 18 August, Leigh-Mallory, TNA CAB 106/980

Operational Research Section, Report No. 15, ‘Enemy Casualties in Vehicles and Equipment in the Retreat from Normandy to the Seine’, AHB

p. 467 ‘Take cover, boys, they may be ours!’ Rev. A. R. C. Leaney, IWM PP/MCR/206

‘some British armored vehicles…’, NA II 407/427/24143

p. 468 ‘They were excellent fighters…’, Lieutenant George W. Godfrey, 358th Infantry, 90th Division, NA II 407/427/ 24240

‘tidying up official correspondence’, quoted in Terry Copp, Fields of Fire, Toronto, 2003, p. 243

‘The roads were blocked…’, Hans Holler, 21st Panzer-Division, MdeC TE 98

‘In their faces one could read…’, Eberhard Beck, 277th Artillerie-Regiment, 277th Infantry Division, BA-MA MSg 2/3242

p. 469 ‘Fertigmachen zum Abmarsch’, Eberhard Beck, 277th Artillerie-Regiment, 277th Infantry Division, BA-MA MSg 2/3242

escape of General Meindl and paratroops, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923

p. 470 ‘clear and serene’, Generalmajor Gerhard Muller, 116th Panzer-Division, FMS B-162

p. 471 ‘People, horses, vehicles…’, General der Panzertruppen Freiherr von Luttwitz, 2nd Panzer-Division, FMS A-903

‘This was the signal….’, Generalmajor Freiherr Rudolf von Gersdorff, FMS A-919

‘It was a gunner’s dream…’, NA II 407/ 427/24242

p. 472 ‘The Polish soldier fights…’, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1

‘luck gave the 10th Cavalry Brigade…’, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1

capture of General Elfeldt, Captain A. Potozynski, 10th Polish Mounted Rifles, SWWEC LEEWW 2000.327

Simonds and Kitching, Copp, pp. 249-50 p. 473 Hauptmann Werner, III Battalion, Regiment Der Fuhrer, 2nd SS Panzer-Division Das Reich, MdC TE 158

SS officer saved by Canadian officer, Herbert Ronstedt, 9th SS Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen, BA-MA MSg 2/3225

Polish tanks near northern Hill 262, Hubert Meyer, BA-MA MSg 2/4832

‘Oh it’s the old man’, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923

p. 475 ‘German attempts, more or less…’, SHD-DAT 11 P 221

‘the sixty-sixth and last day…’, MdC TE 149

Polish losses in Normandy, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1

p. 476 over 2,000 men per division had escaped, Generalmajor Freiherr von Gersdorff, Chief of Staff Seventh Army, written answers submitted October 1945, NA II 407/427/24231

‘[The] Yanks say…’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC 501 T

‘A boy of about ten years…’, 2nd Lieutenant Roy J. Bolen, 38 Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, NA II 407/427/24240

‘The roads were choked with wreckage…’, Desmond Scott, Typhoon Pilot, London, 1982, p. 129

‘The horses seemed almost more pitiful’, Kingsley Amis, Memoirs, London, 1991, p. 221

p. 477 the cossack squadron, Barnett Hoffner, 6th Engineer Special Brigade, NWWIIM-EC

German field hospital in Foret de Gouffern, NA II 407/427/24235

‘On the collapse of the Falaise pocket…’, Lieutenant Colonel John N. Snyder, MdC TE 648

p. 478 ‘Their blankets have been…’,Aitken Hughes diary, WLHUM RAMC 1771

‘The air became unbreathable’, Jean Sorel, MdC TE 504 ‘The victory has been definite…’, LHCMA De Guingand 3/1-27

Eberbach’s estimate of those who escaped, Eberbach, FMS A-922

Gersdorff’s estimate, Generalmajor Rudolf-Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, Chief of Staff Seventh Army, ETHINT 59

‘One of Monty’s great errors…’, Air Chief Marshal Tedder, OCMH-FPP

‘Monty is supposed to have done a great job…’, Air Chief Marshal Coningham, OCMH-FPP

‘too tidy’, ‘the high cock on the dungheap’ and ‘Bradley was indignant…’, Brigadier E. T. Williams, G-2, 21st Army Group, OCMH-FPP

28. THE PARIS UPRISING AND THE RACE FOR THE SEINE

p. 480 ‘had to ask him categorically…’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940- 1945, New York, 1974, p. 516

‘This Army covers so much…’, ibid., p. 517

p. 481 ‘pissed in the river that morning’, ibid., pp. 521-2

‘Go where you damn well…’,Major General Gilbert Cook, commanding XII Corps, Third Army, NA II 407/427/24241

De Gaulle’sunannounced journey, Wilson to SHAEF, 16 August, TNA ADM 1/ 16018

De Gaulle and the Flying Fortress, John Julius Norwich (ed.), The Duff Cooper Diaries, London, 2005, p. 318 (17 August)

‘We must march on Paris…’, Charles de Gaulle, OCMH-FPP

p. 482 Hitler and Choltitz, General Dietrich von Choltitz, De Sebastopol a Paris, Paris, 1964, pp. 203-9

‘Bedell, Ike and all hands…’, ACM Sir James Robb, OCMH-FPP

‘The worst job…’, TNA WO 208/4364, quoted in Sonke Neitzel (ed.), Tapping Hitler’s Generals, St Paul, Mn., p. 192

‘Have you read Churchill’s…’, TNA WO 208/4634

p. 483 ‘short of stature…’, Leutnant Dankwart, Graf von Arnim, MdC TE 819 p. 484 25,000 soldiers, Generalleutnant Freiherr von Boineburg, FMS B-015

‘interpreter battalion…’, Oberst Professor Dr Kurt Hesse, FMS B-611

Bayerlein and Choltitz, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66

p. 485 ‘the shining example…’, SHD-DAT 13 P 42 1