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X Troop, Harry Nomburg, NWWIIM-EC, and Peter Masters, NWWIIM-EC
Kieffer, MdC TE 131
p. 140 ‘Gentlemen, this is the invasion . . .’, letter from Otto Günsche, 2 October 1981, quoted in Hubert Meyer, The 12th SS, Vol. I, Mechanicsburg, Pa., 2005, p. 97
‘a tall wiry . . .’, Milton Shulman, Defeat in the West, London, 1988, pp. 118-19
p. 141 Château de Bénouville, Louise Moulin, MdC TE 350
Oppeln-Bronikowski’s change of orders, Generalmajor Wilhelm Richter, 716th Infantry Division, FMS B-621
Marcks, Seventh Army telephone records captured in August by 1st Polish Armored Division, NA II 407/427/6431
‘in no position to judge’ and ‘The main landing ...’, Generalleutnant Bodo Zimmermann, OB West, FMS B-308
p. 142 ‘fill a crater . . .’, NA II 407/427/ 24170
p. 143 ‘deep concrete pillboxes . . .’, ‘fought with determination . . .’ and ‘blown out of their emplacements . . .’, Current Reports from Overseas, No. 56, NA II 407/427/ 24170
p. 144 André Heintz, diary, MdC, TE 32 (1- 4); and Dr Robert Chaperon, MdC TE 42
p. 145 destruction in Caen, MdC TE 283
‘One could see . . .’, Félix Drougard, MdC TE 3
‘If only I was a little less fat’, MdC TE 149
looter, MdC TE 149 p. 146 Défense Passive etc., MdC TE 193
‘magnificent attitude . . .’, SIPEG (Service interministériel de protection contres les évènements de guerre) report of 10 June, AN AJ/41/56
executions in Caen prison, Jean-Baptiste Pierre (Surveillant-Chef Adjoint de la Maison d’Arrêt de Caen), MdC TE 521
‘Oh, no! . . .’, ‘pale and evidently terrified’ and ‘The German army is honest’, Madame Blanche Néel, MdC TE 201
p. 147 ‘With a bestial frenzy . . .’, Nadine Speck MdC TE 2
‘useless as well as criminal’, Max Maurin, MdC TE 77 (2)
800 deaths in Caen, 600 on 6 June and 200 on 7 June, CRHQ
‘The town is in flames . . .’, ‘almost destroyed’ and ‘all the gendarmes . . .’, SIPEG report of 10 June, AN AJ/41/56
p. 148 ‘In Westminster Abbey . . .’, Mollie Panter-Downes, London War Notes, London, 1971, p. 328
‘It has been very hard . . .’, Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries 1939-1945, London, 2001, p. 555 (6 June)
p. 149 Eadie and ‘Fireflies’, see Carlo D’Este, Decision in Normandy, New York, 1983
‘I suppose that’s what . . .’, Lieutenant Cyril Rand, 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles, MdC TE 499
‘It equally impressed . . .’, NA II 407/ 427/24170
p. 150 ‘the enemy annihilated . . .’, Seventh Army telephone records, NA II 407/427/ 6431
‘He was still convinced . . .’, Nicolaus von Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, 1937-1945, Mainz, 1980, p. 374
Panzer Lehr Division, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
‘What’s happened to...’, BA-MA MSg2/5025
p. 151 4,649 US seaborne casualties, Omar Bradley, A Soldier’s Story, New York, 1951, p. 242
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SECURING THE BEACHHEADS
p. 152 29th Division headquarters, NA II 407/427/24034
farmhands and Pennsylvania coal miners, 29th Division, WWII VS
‘The sea was like . . .’, Oberstleutnant Ziegelmann, 352nd Infanterie-Division, FMS B-489
p. 153 MP Sergeant, Melvin Asche, 1006th Seabea Detachment, MdC TE 126
‘looked at us . . .’, Madame Huet-Patry, Vierville-sur-Mer, MdC TE 22
‘I guess they didn’t know . . .’, Barnett Hoffner, 6th Engineer Special Brigade, NWWIIM-EC
p. 154 ‘deloused’ areas, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’sWar,Lexington,Kentucky, 2001,p. 63
USS Harding, Walter Vollrath Jr, USN, NWWIIM-EC
p. 155 ‘Again Colonel Rudder . . .’, Elmer H. Vermeer, 2nd Engineer Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, with 2nd Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC; also Lieutenant Francis W. Dawson, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC; and Lieutenant Rex F. Gibson, Headquarters Company, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NA II 407/427/ 24242
‘stumble-footed action’, NA II 407/427/ 24034
bartering, Brugger, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘Hey, I need a hedgerow . . .’, Oscar Rich, 5th Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
A-1 landing strip, W. G. Schuler, 382nd Air Service Squadron, 84th Group, NWWIIM-EC evacuation of wounded by air, Louise Anthony de Flon, 816th Medical Air Evacuation, MdC