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“Two British divisions”: PRO, WO106/4348.
“I never failed to be”: “Report of U.S. Board on Organization Equipment & Tactical Employment of Infantry Divisions,” USAMHI, D769AZ, no. 15, c.4.
“Enlisted personnel”: NA, RG492–332, box 12.
“Riflemen, Patton told”: USAMHI, D769AZ no. 15 c.4—Patton at Bad Nauheim, 11.20.45.
“Many Allied commanders”: Pogue, op. cit., pp. 328, 333.
“Reliance on fire superiority”: NA, RG492–332 box 3, report of 9.13.44.
“Von Rundstedt asserted”: PRO, WO205/1020, vol. i.
“That [British] infantry”: Timothy Harrison Place, Military Training in the British Army, 1940–44 (Frank Cass: 1997), p. 170.
“artillery-dominated tactics”: Ibid.
“The director of military”: PRO, WO231/8, 12.18.43.
“The American soldier”: NA, RG492–332 box 10, report of 5.7.45.
“There has been considerable”: Ibid.
“The British army’s reliance”: David French, Raising Churchill’s Army (Oxford University Press: 2000), p. 285.
“As an infantryman”: DuPuy Papers, op. cit.
“We walked over the hill”: Trotter unpublished MS, quoted Sterling Rush, op. cit., p. 80.
“We seldom knew what”: AI Wally Aux.
“The great story used to be”: AI Roy Dixon.
“I thought our tactics”: AI Field-Marshal Lord Bramall.
“The British Army was”: AI General Sir David Fraser.
“men walk when they should”: PRO, WO208/3111.
“The Americans seemed to us”: AI Walter Schaefer-Kuhnert.
“With the Allies it was always”: AI Rolf-Helmut Schröder.
“Yet Sergeant Helmut”: AI Helmut Günther.
“The tank’s inherent”: Harrison Place, op. cit., p. 130.
“Teach the men to work”: NA, RG492–332 box 12.
“If you won’t get in front”: AI Patrick Hennessy.
“During the advance to Metz”: NA, RG492–322 box 12, report of 2.22.45.
“The infantry always thought”: AI Major-General Roy Dixon.
“One always felt that”: AI Captain “Dim” Robbins.
“The infantry commander sees”: Quoted Panzertruppen, vol. ii, ed. Thomas L. Jentz (Schiffer: 1996).
“In defence, they took pieces”: DuPuy Papers, op. cit.
“The qualitative superiority”: For a full discussion of this issue see the author’s Overlord.
“Before we went into Normandy”: Belton Cooper, Death Traps (Presidio: 1998), p. viii.
“The Sherman was a very”: AI David Fraser.
“I thought: ‘To hell’ ”: AI Patrick Hennessy.
“A deluge of field reports”: NA, RG492–322 box 6.
“Had they been Russians”: Henry Metelmann, Through Hell for Hitler (Spellmount: 2001), p. 285.
“I’ll take him behind”: AI Captain “Dim” Robbins.
“Wehrmacht Sergeant Otto Cranz’s”: AI Otto Cranz.
“considered it bad psychology”: NA, RG492–322 box 12, report of 2.16.45.
“Front line troops deplore”: Second Army MD.
“finally we said ‘to hell’ ”: NA, RG492–322 box 11.
“some unfortunate incidents in”: d’Este, Patton, op. cit., p. 700.
“because they think they will”: NA, RG 492–322 box 12, report of 1.21.45.
“the Germans had a pretty good record”: AI David Tibbs, 13 Para war diary in possession of Dr. David Tibbs, cited in manuscript memoir loaned to author.
“There were body parts”: AI Tony Carullo.
“You were not afraid of being”: AI Helmut Schmidt.
“The whole experience”: AI Iolo Lewis.
“I cannot say that”: AI Henry Kissinger.
“For my generation”: Arthur Schlesinger, A Life in the Twentieth Century (Hough-ton Mifflin: 2000), p. 353.
“Gee, I’ll have something”: AI Rueben Cohen.
“Very few of us were”: AI Roy Ferlazzo.
“in indescribably cold”: Hansen Diary, op. cit., 1.22.45.
“I remember wondering what”: Michael Carver, Out of Step (Hutchinson: 1989), p. 196.
“We were absolutely certain”: AI Lord Carrington.
“Hate them?”: AI Tony Carullo.
“The Germans were just”: AI Roy Ferlazzo.
“I never hated the Germans”: AI Captain “Dim” Robbins.
“I let him go”: Sergeant Reg Romain MS, IWM.
“ ‘General,’ said the hapless”: James K. Woolnough Oral History Interview, 1971, Woolnough Papers box 1, USAMHI.
CHAPTER FOUR: THE RUSSIANS AT THE VISTULA
“Is there still a Tsar?”: WSC, “The Dream” published in the Sunday Telegraph, 12.30.66.
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