D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

2eme DB casualties, SHD-DAT 11 P 218

2,873 Parisians killed in the month of August, AVP

‘les delices d’une nuit dediee a Venus’, Marc de Possesse, 2e DB, MdC TE 361

‘I was providentially removed…’, Rev. Pere Roger Fouquer, Aumonier Divisionnaire, 2eme DB, MdC TE 825

‘beer, cider…’, BD

‘Slowly the tank hatches…’, John G. Westover, MdC TE 436 (2)

p. 514 ‘Me, I don’t give a damn…’, Marc de Possesse, 2e DB, MdC TE 361

‘Direct General Leclerc that…’, SHD-DAT 11 P 218

international composition of the 2eme DB, SHD-DAT 11 P 231

Rol-Tanguy’s headquarters calls for 6,000 FFI, SHD-DAT 13 P 42 1

‘members of the National Council of Resistance…’, Robert Aron, Histoire de la Liberation de la France, Paris, 1959, p. 442

p. 515 ‘Public order is a matter…’, Boegner, p. 301, quoted in Beevor and Cooper, p. 63

‘an informal visit’, NA II 407/427/24235

‘General Gerow, as military…’, NA II 407/427/24235

p. 516 ‘collaboratrice!’ John G. Westover, MdC TE 436 (2)

head-shaving on balcony of Mairie, Madame Talbot, MdC TE 133

‘We are sickened…’, Marc de Possesse, 2e DB, MdC TE 361

20,000 Frenchwomen, Fabrice Virgili, Shorn Women, Oxford, 2002

‘As we neared the city…’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War, Lexington, Kentucky, 2001, p. 174

p. 517 ‘an American enclave…’, Simone de Beauvoir, La Force des Choses, Paris, 1960, p. 29

‘Pig Alley’ and drunken soldiers in the Place Vendome, Pogue, pp. 229-30

allocation of penicillin, Major General Kenner, SHAEF, OCMH-FPP

30. AFTERMATH

p. 519 ‘I saw Frenchmen in the streets…’, Major L. J. Massey, MdC TE 167

De Gaulle’s visit and minister for reconstruction, William I. Hitchcock, Liberation, London, 2008, p. 57

p. 520 76,000 people had lost their homes, TNA WO 219/3728, quoted in Hitchcock, p. 44

‘There are those who…’, Madame Ruet, Montebourg, MdC TE 63

p. 521 ‘camaraderie du malheur’, MdC TE 149

Saingt family at Fleury, Georges Hebert, MdC TE 12

‘discipline exemplaire’, Bernard Goupil, MdC TE 191

195th Field Ambulance near Honfleur, J. C. Watts, Surgeon at War, London, 1955, p. 110

p. 522 ‘Civil life will be mighty dull’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940- 1945, New York, 1974, p. 521

‘It is astonishing…’, 21 June, Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries 1939- 1945, London, 2001, p. 561

p. 523 ‘First of all he’s a psychopath…’, Cornelius Ryan papers, Ohio University Library Department of Archives and Special Collections, quoted in The Times, 9 November 2007

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