Inferno - Max Hastings [455]
Davidson, Maj. Basil
Davidson, Pvt. Ron
Davies, Bob
Davies, Norman
Davin, Lt. Dan
Davis, Pilot Officer Donald
Daw Sein
Dawley, Maj. Gen. Mike
D’Cruz, Emily
death camps (German), 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6; see also concentration camps
Deck, Josef
Decoux, Adm. Jean
decryption: of enemy messages, see also Ultra intercepts
Dees, Joe
Deng Yumin
Denmark: Germany occupies, 3.1; Jews protected from deportation, 16.1; agricultural supplies to Germany, 20.1; Allies protect from Russian advance, 24.1, 24.2
Dennis, First Lt. Alec
Denny, Chief Officer C. B.
Dentz, Gen. Henri
De Ruyter (Dutch cruiser), 9.1
Deseö, László
Desplats, Lt. Jacques
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (newspaper), 1.1
de Valera, Éamon, 16.1, 26.1
Devastators (U.S. torpedo bombers), 10.1, 10.2
Devers, Lt. Gen. Jake, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3
Diadem, Operation, 21.1
Dick, Shirley Karp
Didier family (of Sainlez)
Dieppe: raid (1942)
Diercks, Lt. Lyman, 21.1, 24.1
Dill, Gen. Sir John
Diller, Pfc. Eric
Dior, Christian
displaced persons: at war’s end
Dixon, Lt. Cmdr. Bob
Djilas, Milovan, 18.1, 24.1, 24.2
Dnieper, river, Russia, 15.1, 15.2, 21.1
Dodecanese campaign (1943)
Doe, Bob
Don, river, 12.1, 15.1
Dönitz, Grand Adm. Karl, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 24.1
Doolittle, Col. James, 10.1, 17.1
Doorman, Adm. Karel
Dora (German heavy gun)
Dorfman, Harold, 19.1, 19.2
Dorman-Smith, Sir Reginald
Dose, Wolf
Douglas, Keith, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Dowding, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh, 4.1, 4.2
Doyle, Janet
Drake, Billy
Dresden: bombed, 19.1, 24.1; Red Army reaches, 24.2, 24.3
Dressler, Erich, 18.1, 18.2
Drobiński, Bolesław
Drummond, Irene
Dugan, Haynes
Dugdale, Blanche
Dunand, Jean-Louis
Dunkirk: evacuation (1940), 3.1, 3.2
Dunlop, Lt. Col. Edward (“Weary”)
Durham Light Infantry: in Sicily
Dutch East Indies: refugees from Singapore, 9.1; Japanese attack, 9.2; nationalist movement, 26.1; execution of Japanese war criminals, 26.2
Dworsky, Lt. Bertha
Dyess, Capt. William
East Solomons, Battle of (24 August 1943)
Eben Emael fort, Belgium
Ebisawa, Petty Officer Kisao
Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon): sounds out army morale, 4.1; and Polish refugees, 20.1; meets Karski, 20.2; and Anders’s bitterness at war’s end, 26.1; and Stalin’s control, 26.2
Eder dam
Egypt: British position in, 5.1, 14.1; Italy attacks, 5.2; Wavell mounts offensive, 5.3; threatened by Rommel, 5.4, 5.5, 14.2; conditions, 5.6; anti-British sentiments, 16.1; see also Alexandria; Cairo
Ehrenburg, Ilya
Eichelberger, Lt. Gen. Robert, 10.1, 22.1
Eighth Army: in North Africa, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4; lacks confidence in higher commanders, 5.5; motivation and low morale, 14.1; Montgomery commands, 14.2, 14.3; Churchill demands offensive, 14.4; Alamein victory and advance westward, 14.5; in Italian campaign, 18.1
Einsatzgruppen (Nazi death squads)
Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight: foresees U.S.A. entering war, 8.1; on Wainwright and MacArthur, 10.1; promoted to general, 13.1; negotiates ceasefire with Vichy French in North Africa, 14.1; command in North Africa, 14.2; reputation, 17.1; suppresses U.S. atrocity story in Sicily, 18.1; overrules Clark at Salerno, 18.2; approves bombing of French targets, 21.1; as Supreme Commander for invasion of Europe, 21.2; forces established in Normandy, 21.3; assumes operational command of Anglo-American forces, 21.4; military strength in Europe, 22.1, 24.1; over-optimism, 23.1; strategy in NW Europe, 23.2, 23.3, 23.4; competition among subordinates, 23.5; held up by weather, 23.6; manpower shortage, 23.7; winter conditions of armies, 23.8; restores front after Ardennes battle, 23.9; advance into Germany, 24.2, 24.3; entrusts final stages of campaign to Montgomery, 24.4; abandons Berlin as objective, 24.5; insists on unconditional German surrender, 24.6; qualities, 26.1
Eisymont, Vyacheslav
El Alamein: British defensive line, 5.1, 14.1; Montgomery’s victory at, 11.1; First Battle of (1 July 1942), 14.2; Second Battle of (October 1942), 14.3
Elbe, river
Elliott, Capt. David, 13.1, 13.2
el-Masri, Gen. Aziz
Engel, Col. Georg
Engelbrecht,