Antony Beevor - D-Day - The Battle for Normandy

p. 93 Kraiss’s dispositions, for an excellent summary see Joseph Balkoski, Beyond the Beachhead , Mechanicsburg, Pa., 1999, pp. 73-8

absence of fire from the beach, Sergeant HarryC. Bare, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC

dead fish, Captain Joseph T. Dawson NA II 407/427/24011

‘bucking like…’, Edwin J. Best, First Lieutenant, 6th Engineer Special Brigade NWWIIM-EC

‘reeked of vomit’, John Raaen, 5th Ranger Battalion, WWII VS

navigation difficulties, Robert E. Adams, US Coast Guard, LCVP #22, USS Samuel Chase , NWWIIM-EC

p. 94 Royal Navy landing craft crews, I am grateful to Dr Kevan Elsby and Joseph Balkoski for information correcting the false impressions of earlier accounts.

‘Soon we became conscious…’, Lieutenant (MC) Alfred A. Schiller, USN, CWM/ MCG 58A

‘Make it look good, men…’, First Lieutenant Donald S. Newbury, NA II 407/427/ 24242

experienced coxswains, E. Adams, US Coast Guard, LCVP #22., USS Samuel Chase , NWWIIM-EC

‘Astherampwentdown…’,Pozek, 116th Regiment, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘if you slipped…’, J. Robert Slaughter, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, MdC TE 231

p. 95 ‘bullets were splashing…’, William Huch, E Company, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, Folder Huch, William, DDEL

‘had a gaping wound…’, Harold Baumgarten, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘I’m hit! I’m hit!’, Private Elmer E. Matekintis, 16th Infantry, 1st Division, NA II 407/ 427/24242

‘as it hit the wet sand…’, Harry Parley, 2nd Battalion, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘He screamed for a medic…’, J. Robert Slaughter, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, MdC TE 231

p. 96 ‘frontal and enfilade’, V Corps, NA II 407/427/24235

‘fifty or sixty feet…’, Staff Sergeant Robert L. Bogart, 1st Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘We went to work…’, William M. Jenkins, US Navy Reserve (Navy Combat Demolition Unit), MdC TE 438

‘I’ve never in all my life…’, William Huch, E Company, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, Folder Huch, William, DDEL

p. 97 121st Combat Engineer Battalion, Lieutenant P. W. J. Mallory, NA II 407/ 427/24242

‘Some men were crying…’, Second Lieutenant John T. Czuba, 116th Infantry, NA II 407/427/24242

‘men were tumbling…’, Alan Anderson, 467th Anti-aircraft Battalion, NWWIIM-EC

men trying to climb back on landing craft, Robert V. Miller, US Navy, NWWIIM-EC

‘Some of our boys said…’, 116th Infantry, 29th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/ 24241

‘another miserable…’, Lieutenant Ed R. McNabb Jr, H Company, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NA II 407/427/24242

p. 98 ‘We talked to them…’, NA II 407/ 427/24034

‘yelled down at the troops…’,JohnRaaen, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC

‘I saw a man coming…’, Captain C. N. Hall, Assistant Surgeon, 16th Infantry, 1st Division, NA II 407/427/24242

p. 99 ‘started running…’, Andrew A. Fellner, 112th Combat Engineers, Easy Red, NWWIIM-EC

tank on Fox Green, NA II 407/427/24034

‘What saved us were…’, Private Elmer E. Matekintis, 16th Infantry, 1st Division, NA II 407/427/24242

‘were crowded…’, V Corps, NA II 407/ 427/24235

p. 100 111th Field Artillery Battalion, NA II 407/427/24034

08.00 hours, timings taken from log kept by Major Thomas D. Howie, the RCT 116’s S-3, NA II 407/427/24151

‘He was catapulted…’, NA II 407/427/ 24034

‘Old Hatchetface…’, J. Robert Slaughter, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, MdC TE 231

p. 101 ‘We’ve got to get off…’, Captain C. N. Hall, Assistant Surgeon, 16th Infantry, 1st Division, NA II 407/427/24242

‘The only people…’, after action report, Headquarters Company, 16th Infantry, NA II 407/427/24011; confirmed by Major General Albert H. Smith Jr, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC

‘North-east of Colleville…’, Ia, 352nd Infanterie-Division to Chief of Staff LXXXIV Corps, 6 June log, FMS B-388

‘the gravest immediate threat…’, Gordon A. Harrison, US Army in World War II , Washington, DC, 1951, pp. 320 and 330- 31

p. 102 ‘from warships on the high seas…’, 11.10 hours, 352nd Infantry Division, 6 June log, Bayeux Sector, FMS B-388

‘Praise the Lord’, Pfc Harold F. Plank, 2nd Ranger Battalion, WWII VS p. 103 08.19 hours, telephone log, 352nd Infanterie-Division, FMS B-388

‘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