D-Day_ The Battle for Normandy - Antony Beevor [298]
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THE AMERICANS ON THE COTENTIN PENINSULA
p. 208 ‘Within a week . . .’, Lieutenant (MC) Alfred A. Schiller, USN, CWM/ MCG 58A
Omaha Beach command, NA II 407/427/ 212
‘Turn those prisoners...’, Barnett Hoffner, 6th Engineer Special Brigade, NWWIIM-EC
‘Those wounded paratroopers . . .’, Orval Wakefield (Naval Combat Demolition Unit), NWWIIM-EC
‘We had an incident . . .’, Charles C. Zalewski, LST 134, NWWIIM-EC
‘One of our ship’s officers . . .’, Ralph Crenshaw, LST 44, NWWIIM-EC
p. 209 trade in Lugers, Major John C. Geiglein, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War, Lexington, Kentucky, 2006, pp. 127-8
bartering a truck-load of weapons, T/Sgt Eugene W. Griffin, 2nd Armored Division, WWII VS
‘a considerable laxity . . .’, Pogue, p. 87
pig roasting, Angelos Chatas (Naval Combat Demolition Unit), NWWIIM-EC
p. 210 ‘The [French] attitude is . . .’, NA II 407/427/212
‘The Mayor of Colleville . . .’, NA II 407/ 427/212
p. 211 ‘Hermann’s Vermin’, Cyrus C. Aydlett, USS Bayfield, NWWIIM-EC
‘despite undisputed air supremacy . . .’, Leigh-Mallory, 1 July, Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Air Force, TNA ADM 1/ 16332
p. 212 ‘an enemy sniper . . .’, Omar Bradley, A Soldier’s Story, New York, 1951, p. 292
‘When I saw that . . .’, John Troy, 8th Infantry, NWWIIM-EC
91st Luftlande-Division, Oberst Eugen König, FMS B-010
p. 214 ‘I was ordered to . . .’, Obergefreiter Hans S., 9.Kp./Gren.Rgt.1058, 91.(LL.) Inf.Div., 13 273 B, 7 July, BfZ-SS
‘a burly professor . . .’, Martin Blumenson, The Duel for France, New York, 2000, pp. 20-21
‘a pudgy man . . .’, ibid., p. 11
‘The commander-in-chief . . .’, Generalleutnant von Choltitz, LXXXIV Corps, FMS B-418
‘he had lived a life . . .’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
‘the war was lost’, Generalleutnant von Choltitz, LXXXIV Corps, FMS B-418 p. 215 ‘refreshingly open-minded’, LHCMA Liddell Hart 11/1944/7
‘Montebourg and Valognes . . .’, TNA WO 205/5B
‘a Cub plane . . .’, operation of air support parties, NA II 407/427/24204
p. 216 Mulberry and gale, ‘Artificial Harbours in Operation Overlord’, TNA ADM 1/17204
‘The only chance . . .’, Dean Rockwell, US Navy, NWWIIM-EC
‘It took us about . . .’, Werner Hugo Saenger, LST 27, NWWIIM-EC
‘I thank the gods . . .’, J. M. Stagg, Forecast for Overlord, London, 1971, p. 126
‘never really believed...’, Colonel Thomas Bigland, Montgomery’s personal liaison officer to First US Army, then 12th Army Group, SWWEC 99-10
p. 217 tonnage and vehicles landed in August, Normandy Base Section Communications Zone, 8 September, Com Z, NA II 407/427/24133
‘a bit of plunder’, Oberst a.D. Dr Hans Kessler, BA-MA MSg 2/249
‘The men were tired . . .’, Lieutenant William Priestman, 315th Infantry, NA II 407/ 427/24242
p. 218 ‘K Company . . .’, Lieutenant John E. Cunningham, 314th Infantry, 79th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24242
‘We fired back . . .’, Karl Hohmann, RAD, MdC TE 506
‘any part of the garrison . . .’, Colonel Bernard B. MacMahon, 315th Infantry, 79th Division, NA II 407/427/24242
p. 219 ‘At eight-thirty . . .’, Lieutenant John R. Blackburn, Sky Control Officer, USS Quincy, NWWIIM-EC
‘It was a beautiful...’, Rear Admiral Carleton F. Bryant, USN, Commander Battleship Division 5, MdC TE 173
p. 220 ‘Immediately we opened fire’, K. Jump, SWWEC T 1823
armoured bulldozers, Lieutenant Colonel H. A. Delo, 346th Engineers, NA II 407/ 427/24242
display of strength, Lieutenant Ralph Powell, Cannon Company, 47th Infantry, 9th Division, NA II 407/427/24241
‘had drunk enough . . .’, NA II 407/427/ 24242
p. 221 ‘sound common sense’, Oberstleutnant Keil, FMS C-018
‘Final battle for Cherbourg . . .’, Generalleutnant Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben, 709th Infantry Division, FMS B-845
‘Some of the boys . . .’, Lieutenant John A. Le Trent, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24242
‘We saw a few women snipers . . .’, Sergeant Walter M. Hedrick, 22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24242
Organisation Todt workers, BA-MA RH 19 iv/132, quoted in Peter Lieb,