Antony Beevor - D-Day - The Battle for Normandy

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, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg? , Munich, 2007, p. 168

‘The Teutonic tendency…’, Captain Elmer G. Koehler, Battalion surgeon, 12th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/ 427/24242

p. 220 ‘That was quite…’, Clayton Storeby, 326th Airborne Engineer Battalion, NWWIIM-EC

‘The Germans have left…’, Pogue, p. 135

‘amassive under ground wine cellar’, Bradley, p. 314

Hitler and Schlieben, General Warlimont, ETHINT 1

p. 223 ‘Field Marshal Rommel is…’, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247

Channel Islands and Nebelwerfer Brigades, General Warlimont, ETHINT 4

p. 224 ‘Jungle Tiger Tactics’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466

‘[Hitler] looked unhealthy…’, Speidel, FMS C-017. The description of this meeting is based on the accounts by Speidel, Rundstedt (FMS B-633), Blumentritt, chief of staff OB West (FMS B-284), and Hitler’s Luftwaffe adjutant, Nicolaus von Below ( Als Hitlers Adjutant, 1937-1945 , Mainz, 1980)

p. 225 withdrawal of six to ten miles and ‘a long auto-suggestive speech’, General der Infanterie Blumentritt, debriefing 6 August 1945, NA II 407/427/24231

‘That was the last thing…’, Below, p. 375

‘everything would depend…’, Blumentritt, Chief of Staff OB West, FMS B-284 p. 226 ‘What principally bothers…’, Mollie Panter-Downes, London War Notes , London, 1971, pp. 330-31

‘eerie howl of sirens’, Cyrus C. Aydlett, USS Bayfield , NWWIIM-EC

War Cabinet, 16 June, LHCMA Liddell Hart 11/1944/38

‘These things…’, Wing Commander R. Beamont, SWWEC T537

p. 227 Director General of Gendarmerie’s report, General Martin, AN AJ/41/56

‘with a pathetic wail…’, Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries 1939-1945 , London, 2001, p. 562 (27 June)

Agent ‘Lector’, TNA HW 40/6

p. 228 ‘Battle is going well…’, Montgomery to Churchill, 14 June, TNA PREM 3/339/8

‘We formed up…’, G. Steer, 1/4th

King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, SWWEC 2002.1644

p. 229 ‘There’s no need to tell Ike’, LHCMA, LHP/1/230/22-23a p. 231 ‘The German trick…’, Peter Rubie, CWM/MCG 58A 1 40.7

‘on turning a corner…’, Stanley Christopherson diary

‘The order came to us…’, G. Steer 1/ 4th King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, SWWEC 2002.1644

p. 232 Ultra on Panzer Lehr, 27 June, TNA KV 9826

‘like strange fungi…’, John Keegan, Six Armies in Normandy , London, 1992, p. 174

‘were much amused…’, Aidan Sprot, Swifter than Eagles , Edinburgh, 1998, p. 120 ‘It’s a vision…’, Félix Drougard, MdC TE 3

p. 233 ‘the enemy which has…’, 9th SS Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen , BA-MA MSg 2/4831

p. 234 ‘ die grosse Chance ’, Kriegstagebuch Panzer Group West, Fifth Panzer Army, BA-MA MSg 2/4831

Ultra, 29 June, XL 70, see Ralph Bennett, Ultra in the West , New York, 1979, p. 82

Operation Epsom, one of the best accounts is in Carlo D’Este, Decision in Normandy , New York, 1983

p. 235 ‘General talked about…’, Myles Hildyard diary, 22 June

‘the armchair strategists…’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466

p. 236 ‘returned in a vile humour’, Blumentritt, Chief of Staff OB West, FMS B-284

‘told him bluntly…’, Blumentritt, ETHINT 73

‘because of the effect…’, General der Panzertruppen Eberbach, FMS A-922

p. 237 ‘become imbued…’, Blumentritt, Chief of Staff OB West, FMS B-284

‘energetic, quick-witted…’, Speidel, FMS C-017

‘After a rather frosty…’, Speidel, FMS C-017

p. 238 ‘German tanks are superior…’, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/106

‘the British attacks…’, General Alfred Jodl, FMS A-913

‘jumped out of line…’, William Oatman, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, NWWIIM-EC

p. 240 ‘The effect of the major conflicts…’, Keitel and Jodl, FMS A-915