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“Staff-Sergeant Delbert Lambson”: Delbert D. Lambson, When I Return in Spring (Delzona Press: 1995).
“I can go out on a mission”: Robert Burger, unpublished MS, SA.
“Major Jack Ilfrey said”: AI Jack Ilfrey.
“Nice day, but nothing for us”: Unpublished MS, IWM, 92/26/1.
“Dear Mom”: Harry Conley and Stuart G. Whittelsey, unpublished MS, “No Foxholes in the Sky,” SA.
“We had to hang around the Halifax”: Unpublished David Sokoloff MS, SA.
“Eddie Lovejoy, a navigator with”: Eddie Lovejoy, Better Born Lucky Than Rich (Media: 1986), pp. 85–6.
“Other people in the squadron”: AI Bill Winter.
“made you feel as if they had cleaned”: Unpublished Richard Burt MS, SA.
“I thought a lot about our guys”: AI Ira Wells.
“We were the Lindbergh generation”: AI Harold Dorfman.
“We never thought about what”: AI Bill Winter.
“Sergeant Jack Brennan”: AI Jack Brennan.
“Our gunners never fired”: AI Bill Winter.
“There would be seconds”: Lloyd O. Kreuger, Trials and Tribulations of a Lady (Canyon Lake: 2001), p. 37.
“The flak was brutal”: AI William Leek.
“Ammunition began to explode”: Unpublished Teresa K. Flatley MS, SA.
“We just wanted to get it over”: AI Ira Wells.
“Bledisloe had spent almost two”: Marvin Bledisloe, Thunderbolt! (Van Nostrand Reinhold: 1982).
“Yet Major Jack Ilfrey”: Jack Ilfrey, Happy Jack’s Go Buggy (Schiffer Military: 1946).
“The landscape looked just like”: Richard Hough, One Boy’s War (Heinemann: 1975), p. 137.
“You sometimes saw too much”: Ibid., p. 146.
“They are shits”: Paul Richey, Fighter Pilot (Guild Publishing: 1990), p. 108.
“that we are the barbarians”: Eaker to Spaatz 1.1.45 quoted Ronald Schaffer, “American Military Ethics in World War II,” Journal of American History 67, September 1980, p. 328.
“CLARION hit people”: AI John Zimmermann.
“I could see the cannon strikes”: Hough, op. cit., p. 147.
“We sometimes thought the Allied”: AI Helmut Lott.
“you feel as if you are flying”: Jack Pitts, P-47 Pilot (Pitts Enterprise: 1997), pp. 74, 86.
“I felt sorry for the German”: AI Tony Mann.
“There were four men unloading”: Pitts, op. cit., p. 88.
“that it would be good to fight”: Hansen Diary, op. cit., 9.21.44.
“an appeal to the chivalry”: Guderian, op. cit., p. 418, 3.6.45.
“The sky became black”: AI Helmut Schmidt.
“It was a war of despair”: Von Stemann MS, op. cit., p. 153.
“I’ll describe to you today”: Second Army MD.
“We spend most of our lives”: Ibid.
“At 4 o’clock, I arrived”: Ibid.
“Everyone is convinced that no opposition”: PRO, WO106/5922.
“We discussed why the Germans carried”: Von Stemann MS, op. cit., p. 154.
“The Berlin diarist ‘Missie’ ”: Vassiltchikov, op. cit., pp. 120, 148.
“We lived in a dark world”: AI Klaus Fischer.
“during this period of vast”: Mathilde Wolff-Monckeberg, On the Other Side (Pan: 1982), p. 119.
“I came to live in a fantasy”: AI Vilda Geertz.
“The streetcars don’t run”: Second Army MD.
“When Joyce Kuhns fled”: AI Joyce Kuhns.
“Hans Moser was the sixteen-year-old”: AI Hans Moser.
“Lieutenant Henry Docherty”: PRO, WO309/1621, WO309/291.
“On 28 February 1945”: PRO, WO309/106.
“Bud Lindsey, a nineteen-year-old”: Al Lindsey, A Soda Jerk Goes to War (privately published: 2001).
“That everything was dissolving”: Von Stemann MS, op. cit.
“all around us was the manmade”: Ibid., p. 150.
“I had a lot of imagination”: AI Gotz Bergander.
“We walked slowly, for I was now”: Klemperer, op. cit., pp. xvi, 500–10.
“It was terrible, the bodies”: Ibid., p. 502.
“The bombing of Dresden”: AI Gotz Bergander.
“Yet when a nation had tolerated”: AI Henry Kissinger.
“The smell is nauseating and clings”: Vassiltchikov, op. cit., p. 260.
CHAPTER TWELVE: MARCHING ON THE RHINE
“friendly and intimate co-operation”: Tedder, op. cit., p. 638.
“If the field-marshal had not been”: Weigley, op. cit., p. 575.
“So far as I can see”: PRO, CAB106/1070.
“lit out so vigorously that he carried”: Quoted Forrest Pogue, Marshal: Organizer of Victory, vol. iii (Viking: 1973), p. 516.
“to express his full dislike”: Alanbrooke, op. cit., p. 653, 2.1.45.
“An unsatisfactory