D-Day_ The Battle for Normandy - Antony Beevor [292]
‘Medico! . . .’, NA II 407/427/24034
Cota and Canham, NA II 407/427/24235
p. 104 mortars, Franz Gockel, MdC TE 500, and NA II 407/427/24034
‘Boats and vehicles . . .’, V Corps, NA II 407/427/24235
C Company, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry, NA II 407/427/24034
C Company losses, Captain Berthie B. Hawks, C Company, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NA II 407/427/ 24242
p. 105 ‘everyone got ashore safely’, NA II 407/427/24034
‘enemy fire was not as bad . . .’, Second Lieutenant George Athanasakos, 2nd Battalion, 116thInfantry, NA II 407/427/24242
‘he spouted . . .’, NA II 407/427/24034
‘It was just one big mass . . .’, NA II 407/ 427/24241
‘They looked like . . .’, NA II 07/427/ 24034
‘a stampeded herd . . .’, quoted in Harrison, p. 334
p. 106 ‘They lit the fuse . . .’, Barnett Hoffner. 6th Engineer Special Brigade, NWWIIM-EC
destroyers at Omaha, Harrison, p. 322
‘the survivors . . .’, Obergefreiter Alfred Sturm, 9. Kp., II Battalion, 726 Inf Rgt, 716 ID, MdC TE 805
‘There was a German . . .’, Bradley Holbrook, NWWIIM-EC
‘We came across . . .’, Pfc. Charles M. Bulap, 2nd Ranger Battalion, NA II 407/ 427/24241
p. 107 signaller, John Raaen, 5th Ranger Battalion, WWII VS
ranger helped up by prisoners, Nicholas Butrico, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
‘Things look better’, NA II 407/427/ 24235
‘struck by the gray . . .’, Gale B. Beccue, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
‘His helmet was off . . .’, Brugger, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
p. 108 ‘who was calmly . . .’, NA II 407/ 427/24034
‘individually they were . . .’, NA II 407/ 427/24034
‘Those jagged sharp bones . . .’, Herbert Zafft, 29th Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘As I drew near him . . .’, Colin H. Mc-Laurin, 115th Infantry, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘Smoke, dust from . . .’, NA II 407/427/ 24034
French civilians in Vierville, Howie journal, NA II 407/427/24151
p. 109 Cota and Vierville exit, NA II 407/ 427/24034
landed 18,772 men, NA II 407/427/24235
p. 110 ‘wounded can no longer . . .’, telephone log, 352. I.D., 17.10 hours, FMS B-388
identifying the presence of the 352nd Infanterie-Division, letter from Captain Fred Gercke, 27 June, NA II 407/427/24011
smell of burnt flesh, Roy Arnn, 146th Combat Engineer Battalion attached to 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘I saw one young soldier . . .’, Captain Benjamin A. Payson, 60th Medical Battalion, MdC TE 291
p. 111 treatment on Omaha, Lieutenant (MC) Alfred A. Schiller, USN, CWM/ MCG 58A
‘What am I going to do? . . .’, Frank Feduik, pharmacist on LST, NWWIIM-EC
‘left alone to whatever . . .’, Vincent J. del Giudice, pharmacist, USS Bayfield, NWWIIM-EC
p. 112 Gerow landing, NA II 407/427/ 24235
29th Infantry Division command post, NA II 407/427/24034
‘assumed that everyone . . .’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War, Lexington, Kentucky, 2001, p. 83
Casualty figures, see Harrison, p. 330; and NA II 407/427/5919
‘He knew better . . .’, George Roach, Company A, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC
Bedford casualties, see James W. Morrison, Bedford Goes to War: The Heroic Story of a Small Virginia Community in World War II, Lynchburg, Va., 2006; and George D. Salaita, ‘Embellishing Omaha Beach’, Journal of Military History, April 2008, pp. 531-4
p. 113 German losses on the eastern front and in Normandy, Niklas Zetterling, Normandy 1944, Winnipeg, 2000, p. 434
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UTAH AND THE AIRBORNE
p. 114 German soldiers and American containers, Rainer Hartmetz, NWWIIM-EC
‘The war game has . . .’, Generalleutnant Karl-Wilhelm Graf von Schlieben, 709th Infanterie-Division, FMS B-845
p. 115 ‘American prisoners with . . .’, Montebourg, Fernand Louvoy, MdC TE 38
‘A soldier had his leg . . .’, Brigadier General David E. Thomas, NWWIIM-EC
p. 116 Château de Hauteville, Briand N. Beaudin, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
discovery of ford, NA II 407/427/ 24206
p. 118 ‘odd-shaped sea-monsters . . .’, Howard van der Beek, USS LCC 60a, NWWIIM-EC
‘met General