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‘during the 54 hours . . .’, 21st Light Field Ambulance, 13 July, LHCMA O’Connor 5/ 3/18
p. 280 15th Scottish Division, 22 July, LHCMA O’Connor 5/4/14
desertions in 50th Division, Stephen A. Hart, Montgomery and ‘Colossal Cracks’, Westport, Conn., 2000, p. 31
‘The Corps psychiatrist . . .’, 21 July, LHCMA O’Connor 5/3/18
‘most serious offence...’, 21 July, LHCMA O’Connor 5/3/18
p. 281 ‘Two of them during . . .’, 129th Infantry Brigade Headquarters, Robert Thornburrow, 4th Somerset Light Infantry, 43rd Wessex Division, MdC TE120
‘ignorance, stupefying, brutalizing ignorance . . .’, VernonScannell, Argument of Kings, London, 1987, p. 152
‘Gentlemen, your life expectancy . . .’, Sydney Jary, 18 Platoon, Bristol, 1998
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p. 282 ‘awfully restless’, diary, 4 June, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940-1945, New York, 1974, p. 462
‘It is Hell . . .’, ibid., p. 464
‘an office seeker . . .’, ibid., pp. 468- 9
p. 283 ‘I cannot follow the reasoning . . .’, Generalleutnant Richard Schimpf, 3rd Paratroop Division, FMS B-541 and FMS B-020
‘one or two armored . . .’, Blumenson (ed.), p. 470
p. 284 ‘After lunch . . .’, ibid., p. 479
p. 286 I saw U.S. troops . . .’, 2nd Lieutenant Morton Kligerman, Graves Registration, 320th Infantry, 35th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24242
‘to relieve the body . . .’, John Capell, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘sickening stench’ and ‘As gruesome . . .’, Sergeant Charles D. Butte, 603rd Quartermaster, Graves Registration Company, VII Corps, First US Army, NWWIIM-EC p. 287 ‘Three enemy paratroopers . . .’, NA II 407/427/24232
p. 288 ‘Mind your Goddam business . . .’, Max Feldman, 2nd Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘scattered opposition’, 2nd Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24232
p. 289 ‘This second transfer . . .’, Generalleutnant Freiherr von Lüttwitz, 2nd Panzer-Division, FMS B-257
‘in a poor state . . .’ and ‘a giant, brutal man’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, ETHINT 66
p. 290 ‘more like jungle fighting’, NA II 407/427/24206
358th Infantry, Lieutenant George W.Godfrey, 90thDivision,NA II 407/427/24240 p. 291 ‘The population has to evacuate . . .’, Obergefreiter Hans S., 17 July, 9.Kp./ Gren.Rgt.1058, 91.(LL.)Inf.Div., BfZ-SS
German artillery observation officer dressed as a priest, Lieutenant James J. Williams, 47th Infantry, 9th Division, NA II 407/427/24241
‘The men said they held . . .’, Lieutenant James J. Williams, 47th Infantry, 9th Division, NA II 407/427/24241
p. 292 ‘poker and mint juleps . . .’, diary of Captain Thomas P. Jacobs, MD, 45th Armored Medical Battalion, 3rd Armored Division, WWII VS
‘Sunday punch’, NA II 407/427/24232
‘a tall Britisher . . .’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War, Lexington, Kentucky, 2001, p. 130
‘two preachers . . .’, Blumenson (ed.), p. 481
p. 293 Artillery airbursts, 331st Infantry, 83rd Division, NA II 407/427/24203
‘I remember one poignant . . .’, James H. Watts, Chemical Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
‘Then, he shot . . .’, Captain Elmer G. Koehler, Battalion surgeon, 12th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/ 24242
‘I saw medical aid men . . .’, Captain William Pola, Medical Detachment, 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24242
p. 294 ‘I got so I can tell . . .’, Captain William L. Johnston, 100th Evacuation Hospital, NA II 407/427/24240
‘It’s such a paradox . . .’, George Silverton, Chief of X Ray Department, 2nd Evacuation Hospital, MdC TE 710
‘blooded’, diary of Captain Thomas P. Jacobs, MD, 45th Armored Medical Battalion, 3rd Armored Division, WWII VS p. 295 K-Rations, WWII VS
‘I find it a bit hard . . .’, diary of Captain Jack H. Welch, 54th Armored Medical, 3rd Armored Division, WWII VS
sergeant in 1st Infantry Division, Sergeant Leroy N. Stewart, 26th Infantry Regiment, WWII VS
‘French kids . . .’, Vernon W. Tart, 618th Ordinance Ammunition Company, NWWIIM-EC
p. 296 ‘I know we lack . . .’, J. Le Gal, ‘Un Gendarme à Caumont l’Eventé’, MdC TE 398
30th Division casualties,