D-Day_ The Battle for Normandy - Antony Beevor [291]
absence of fire from the beach, Sergeant HarryC. Bare, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC
dead fish, Captain Joseph T. Dawson NA II 407/427/24011
‘bucking like . . .’, Edwin J. Best, First Lieutenant, 6th Engineer Special Brigade NWWIIM-EC
‘reeked of vomit’, John Raaen, 5th Ranger Battalion, WWII VS
navigation difficulties, Robert E. Adams, US Coast Guard, LCVP #22, USS Samuel Chase, NWWIIM-EC
p. 94 Royal Navy landing craft crews, I am grateful to Dr Kevan Elsby and Joseph Balkoski for information correcting the false impressions of earlier accounts.
‘Soon we became conscious . . .’, Lieutenant (MC) Alfred A. Schiller, USN, CWM/ MCG 58A
‘Make it look good, men . . .’, First Lieutenant Donald S. Newbury, NA II 407/427/ 24242
experienced coxswains, E. Adams, US Coast Guard, LCVP #22., USS Samuel Chase, NWWIIM-EC
‘Astherampwentdown . . .’,Pozek, 116th Regiment, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘if you slipped . . .’, J. Robert Slaughter, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, MdC TE 231
p. 95 ‘bullets were splashing . . .’, William Huch, E Company, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, Folder Huch, William, DDEL
‘had a gaping wound...’, Harold Baumgarten, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘I’m hit! I’m hit!’, Private Elmer E. Matekintis, 16th Infantry, 1st Division, NA II 407/ 427/24242
‘as it hit the wet sand . . .’, Harry Parley, 2nd Battalion, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘He screamed for a medic...’, J. Robert Slaughter, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, MdC TE 231
p. 96 ‘frontal and enfilade’, V Corps, NA II 407/427/24235
‘fifty or sixty feet . . .’, Staff Sergeant Robert L. Bogart, 1st Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘We went to work . . .’, William M. Jenkins, US Navy Reserve (Navy Combat Demolition Unit), MdC TE 438
‘I’ve never in all my life . . .’, William Huch, E Company, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, Folder Huch, William, DDEL
p. 97 121st Combat Engineer Battalion, Lieutenant P. W. J. Mallory, NA II 407/ 427/24242
‘Some men were crying . . .’, Second Lieutenant John T. Czuba, 116th Infantry, NA II 407/427/24242
‘men were tumbling . . .’, Alan Anderson, 467th Anti-aircraft Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
men trying to climb back on landing craft, Robert V. Miller, US Navy, NWWIIM-EC
‘Some of our boys said . . .’, 116th Infantry, 29th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/ 24241
‘another miserable . . .’, Lieutenant Ed R. McNabb Jr, H Company, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NA II 407/427/24242
p. 98 ‘We talked to them . . .’, NA II 407/ 427/24034
‘yelled down at the troops . . .’,JohnRaaen, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
‘I saw a man coming . . .’, Captain C. N. Hall, Assistant Surgeon, 16th Infantry, 1st Division, NA II 407/427/24242
p. 99 ‘started running . . .’, Andrew A. Fellner, 112th Combat Engineers, Easy Red, NWWIIM-EC
tank on Fox Green, NA II 407/427/24034
‘What saved us were . . .’, Private Elmer E. Matekintis, 16th Infantry, 1st Division, NA II 407/427/24242
‘were crowded . . .’, V Corps, NA II 407/ 427/24235
p. 100 111th Field Artillery Battalion, NA II 407/427/24034
08.00 hours, timings taken from log kept by Major Thomas D. Howie, the RCT 116’s S-3, NA II 407/427/24151
‘He was catapulted . . .’, NA II 407/427/ 24034
‘Old Hatchetface . . .’, J. Robert Slaughter, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, MdC TE 231
p. 101 ‘We’ve got to get off . . .’, Captain C. N. Hall, Assistant Surgeon, 16th Infantry, 1st Division, NA II 407/427/24242
‘The only people . . .’, after action report, Headquarters Company, 16th Infantry, NA II 407/427/24011; confirmed by Major General Albert H. Smith Jr, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘North-east of Colleville . . .’, Ia, 352nd Infanterie-Division to Chief of Staff LXXXIV Corps, 6 June log, FMS B-388
‘the gravest immediate threat...’, Gordon A. Harrison, US Army in World War II, Washington, DC, 1951, pp. 320 and 330- 31
p. 102 ‘from warships on the high seas . . .’, 11.10 hours, 352nd Infantry Division, 6 June log, Bayeux Sector, FMS B-388
‘Praise the Lord’, Pfc Harold F. Plank, 2nd Ranger Battalion,