Armageddon - Max Hastings [390]
“how long Sixth [SS] Panzer Army”: Second Army MD.
“Hobart Gay, Patton’s Chief”: Gay Diary, op. cit.
“ ‘Madness,’ wrote Winston Churchill”: Churchill, The Grand Alliance, op. cit., p. 536.
“Neither the 99th nor 106th”: Pogue, op. cit.
“A buddy of Private Eugene Gagliardi”: Quoted Wijers, op. cit., p. 65.
“Private ‘Red’ Thompson desperately”: AI “Red” Thompson.
“a feast for us”: Quoted Wijers, op. cit., p. 58.
“I never took part in an attack”: Ibid., p. 93.
“Watch for every opportunity”: Sixth SS Panzer, 11.30.44, Second Army MD.
“Private Donald Doubek’s platoon”: Donald Doubek MS, SA.
“Private Murray Mendelsohn, a combat”: AI Murray Mendelsohn.
“On 28th Division’s battlefield”: Charles B. MacDonald, The Battle of the Bulge (Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1984), p. 151.
“I had the disgusted impression”: Quoted Wijers, op. cit., p. 169.
“An officer who called on his”: Tom Bigland, Bigland’s War (privately published: 1990), p. 81.
“it was evident that the”: Carol Mather, When the Grass Stops Growing (Leo Cooper: 1997), p. 287.
“Until more is known of this new”: Second Army MD.
“Well, Brad, you’ve been”: Hansen Papers, box 42a, USAMHI.
“Big issues are involved”: Second Army MD.
“It looks as if we may now”: PRO, CAB106/1071, BLM to AB, 12.17.44 and 12.19.44.
“General, there’s some rumor”: William K. Harrison oral history interview, USAMHI.
“What shall I do?”: Ibid.
“the most frightening thing”: James Woolnough oral history interview, USAMHI.
“The enemy was in total confusion”: AI Werner Sternebecke.
“They seemed as protective about”: MacDonald, op. cit., p. 369.
“I hated to give up like that”: Wijers, op. cit., p. 190.
“lots of equipment and matériel”: NA, RG492–322 box 12.
“a quivering hulk”: Major Ben Legare quoted MacDonald, op. cit., p. 387.
“The 90th Division had a joke”: Reimers Papers, USAMHI.
“We needed a few samples”: Hansen Diary, op. cit.
“If you try to take them back”: Interview Morris L. Harvey quoted Rush, op. cit., p. 317.
“Private Bill True of the 101st”: Bill True unpublished MS, “The Cow Spoke French,” SA.
“The whole matter of killing”: Pogue, op. cit., p. 297.
“This was the only time”: Donald Shoo MS, SA.
“We were in a state of confusion”: Quoted Wijers, op. cit., p. 38.
“We had no idea what was going on”: AI Murray Mendelsohn.
“If this is the way it is”: Melvin Zais MS, USAMHI.
“remarkable how little we know”: Pogue, op. cit., p. 295.
“Very stupid”: Tedder, op. cit., p. 648.
“Enemy morale was higher”: Report of General Board of U.S. Forces, “Strategy in North-West Europe,” USAMHI.
“For once, we find ourselves”: Second Army MD.
“For English soldiers”: Ibid.
“The roads are littered with”: U.S. 7th Armored Division Intelligence Report quoted ibid.
“A belief would long persist”: MacDonald, op. cit., p. 618.
“a very grave disappointment”: Richardson and Friedlin, op. cit., p. 241.
“incapable of carrying out”: Ibid., p. 236.
“Whenever you attack the enemy”: AI “Pip” Roberts, 1983.
“If U.S. forces had not held”: Rush, op. cit., p. 345.
“I spotted our battalion commander”: Hubert Meyer, History of the 12th SS Division Hitlerjugend (J. J. Fedorwicz Publishing: 1994), p. 252.
“When I reached the vicinity”: Ibid.
“Everywhere there is a feeling of”: Hansen Diary, op. cit., 1.1.45.
“The whole action was an example”: Pogue, op. cit., p. 322.
“Headquarters continues to be a madhouse”: Hansen Diary, op. cit.
“My eyes were red, swollen”: William B. Folkestad, The View from the Turret (Burd Street Press: 2000), p. 69.
“Major William Desobry”: William Desobry oral history interview, USAMHI.
“absolute chaos”: Charles Skelnar, unpublished MS, “My Days of Honor in World War II,” SA.
“As soon as you lifted up”: Henry Hills MS, SA.
“Here is a guy who really”: Harrison oral history interview, op. cit.
“Von Manteuffel asserted afterwards”: Richardson and Friedlin, op. cit., p. 249.
“What’s the form?”: Mather, op. cit., p. 288.
“He humiliated the shyest”: Hamilton, op. cit., p. 250.
“I would like to give you a word of warning”: PRO, CAB106/1069.
“There was ferocious U.S. criticism