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Allied squadrons involved in D-Day operations, RAF-MoD

p. 80 ‘to provide shelter . . .’, Weldon J. Allen, Pilot, 387th Bomb Group, diary, NWWIIM-EC

‘as much steak, pork . . .’, Theodore G. Aufort, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘wieners, beans . . .’, Sergeant Harry C. Bare, 116th Infantry, 29th Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘as if it were Nelson’s . . .’, Major George Young, Green Howards, SWWEC T2452

‘we might have been alongside . . .’, Ludovic Kennedy, SWWEC T320

‘skunk suits’, Vincent Schlotterbeck, NWWIIM-EC

‘nervously adjusting . . .’, Cyrus C. Aydlett, USS Bayfield, NWWIIM-EC

p. 81 ‘We crept still further in . . .’, Lieutenant J. G. Pelly, IWM 91/15/1

‘Attention on deck! . . .’, John Raaen, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC

Seekommandant Normandie, Auszug aus dem Fernsprechmeldebuch der 352. I. D., Küstenverteidigungsabschnitt Bayeux, FMS B-388

p. 82 duffel coats and cocoa, Jean-Louis Salmon, MdC TE 213

‘the whole horizon . . .’, Generalleutnant Joseph Reichert, 711th Infanterie-Division, FMS B-403

smokescreen, Admiral G. B. Middleton, HMS Ramillies, letter 12 June, IWM 01/2/1

p. 83 ‘The screen was literally . . .’, Anthony Drexel Duke, NWWIIM-EC

‘Get your damn helmet on’, Kenneth Romanski, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘During this half-hour . . .’, Major Dallas, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry, 29th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24034

p. 84 ‘Good hunting, Rangers!’, Lieutenant Francis W. Dawson, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC

‘the loneliest time . . .’, Alfred F. Birra, 237th Engineers with 4th Infantry Division, Folder Birra, Alfred F., DDEL

‘That, sirs . . .’, John Raaen, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC

‘The big guns . . .’, Ludovic Kennedy, SWWEC T320

‘It was a strange sight . . .’, Robert L. Bogart, Staff Sergeant, 1st Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘The other landing-craft . . .’, Vernon Scannell, Argument of Kings, London, 1987, p. 145

p. 85 ‘started throwing up . . .’, Kenneth Romanski, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC

senior officer in Jeep, Ronald Seaborne, Royal Navy Forward Observer, 50th Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘to be a bloody . . .’, Stanley Christopherson diary

‘Floater, five thousand!’, Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, diary, SWWEC T501

p. 86 ‘Off Asnelles . . .’, 352nd Infanterie-Division, 6 June log, Bayeux Sector, FMS B-388

‘Fancy having . . .’, David Howarth, Dawn of D-Day, London, 1959, p. 185

rocket bombardment of Cabourg, conversation M. R. D. Foot

‘missed the target entirely . . .’, Combat Team, 16th Infantry, NA II 407/427/5927 p. 87 ‘Well, Ike . . .’, PDDE 1588- 9

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OMAHA

p. 88 description of Omaha, V Corps, NA II 407/427/24235

For Gerow and the planning of the Omaha operation see especially Adrian R. Lewis, Omaha Beach - A Flawed Victory, North Carolina, 2001

p. 90 ‘the greatest firepower . . .’, Harry C. Butcher, Three Years with Eisenhower, London, 1946, p. 453

‘about whether the importance...’, LHCMA Liddell Hart 11/1944/7

‘It’s far too rough . . .’, Major General L. Scott-Bowden, SWWEC T2236

DD tanks, 741st and 743rd Tank Battalions, NA II 407/427/24235; and Dean Rockwell, US Navy, NWWIIM-EC

p. 91 ‘the Americans bungled ...’, LHCMA, Liddell Hart 11/1944/37

for the debate on DD tanks, see Lewis, pp. 307-18

‘precision bombing’, ibid., pp. 184-90

‘The Air Corps might just . . .’, NAII 407/427/5927

German gunnery practice, ADdC 6 W4

p. 92 shelling of Vierville, Michel Hardelay, MdC TE 59

‘The invasion fleet was like . . .’, Obergefreiter Alfred Sturm, 9. Kp., II Battalion, 726th Infanterie-Regiment, 716th Infanterie-Division, MdC TE 805

‘stretching in front of our coast . . .’, Franz Gockel, MdC TE 500

‘heavy bombardment . . .’, 352nd Infanterie-Division, 6 June log, FMS B-388

352nd Artillerie-Regiment and 716th Artillerie-Regiment, see Niklas Zetterling, Normandy 1944, Winnipeg, 2000, pp. 277-9 and 297-9

p. 93 Kraiss’s dispositions, for an excellent summary see Joseph Balkoski, Beyond the Beachhead, Mechanicsburg, Pa.,