Antony Beevor - D-Day - The Battle for Normandy

p. 275 Maltot, Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 502, BA-MA MSg 2/4832

‘He had been hit…’, Corporal Jones, quoted in McKee, p. 230

p. 276 ‘slit trenches scraped…’, Corporal D. Proctor, ‘Section Commander’, DWS

‘Not a metre…’, 9th SS Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen , BA-MA MSg 2/4832

‘ einer Milchsuppe ’, 9th SS Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen , BA-MA MSg 2/4832

‘They’re brave…’, 9th SS Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen , BA-MA MSg 2/ 4832

‘We had a scene…’, 9th SS Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen , BA-MA MSg 2/ 4832

‘ Schlüsselstellung ’,HubertMeyer,BA-MA MSg 2/4832

p. 277 ‘infiltrate the enemy position…’, Sergeant W. Partridge, SWWEC 2006.419

‘Struggling in desperation…’, Corporal D. Proctor, ‘Section Commander’, DWS

‘anguished cries…’, Sergeant Partridge, SWWEC 2006.419

‘A single well-aimed…’, Corporal D. Proctor, ‘Section Commander’, DWS

p. 278 ‘moon landscape’, 9th SS Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen , BA-MA MSg 2/ 4832

‘Mademoiselle Jeanette’, Ludwig Horlebein, 9th SS Panzer-Division, BA-MA MSg 2/4832

civilians in the caves of Fleury, MdC TE 149

cholera and dogs, Major L. J. Massey, MdC TE 167

‘Regret to report…’, TNA CAB 106/ 1092, quoted in D’Este, p. 274

p. 279 ‘not to criticise…’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T2150

6th Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, 49th Division, TNA WO 205/5G, quoted in D’Este, p. 282

‘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

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, NA II 407/427/ 24232 p. 297 ‘I remember going up…’, Bradley Holbrook, NWWIIM-EC

p. 298 ‘Fix bayonets! Twenty-nine, let’s go!’, NA II 407/427/24232

p. 300 ‘like a sled’ and ‘known simply as “Chief”’, NA II 407/427/24232 p. 302 29th Division, night of 15 July, NA II 407/427/24232

Interview Colonel Godwin Ordway Jr, Commanding Officer, 115th Infantry, 20 July, NA II 407/427/24034 p. 303 ‘Cota was hit…’, Lieutenant Edward G. Jones, Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, 29th Infantry Division, WWII VS

25th Cavalry Squadron, Lieutenant Edward G. Jones, Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, 29th Infantry Division, WWII VS

p. 304 ‘the magnificent American troops…’, Montgomery tribute, NA II 407/427/24232

p. 306 ‘I am viewing the prospects…’, 14 July, PDDE, p. 2004

‘I came upon a line…’, Brigadier M. J. P. O’Cock, 2nd Battalion Irish Guards, SWWEC 2003.2287

p. 307 ‘alternate thrusts’, Stephen A. Hart, Montgomery and ‘Colossal Cracks’ , Westport, Conn., 2000, p. 103

Crocodile tanks, Kriegstagebuch Panzer Group West/Fifth Panzer Army, BA-MA MSg 2/4831

‘There is a nice cool breeze…’, Captain S. Beck, MdC TE 570

9th SS Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen , General Sylvester Stadler, FMS B-470

‘the whole length…’, Eberhard Beck, 277th Artillerie-Regiment, 277th Infanterie-Division, BA-MA MSg 2/3242

p. 309 277th Infanterie-Division, Heeresgruppe B, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86

‘decisive for the course of the war…’, XL 2287, quoted in Ralph Bennett, Ultra in the West , New York: 1979, p. 106

‘out of the question’, Heeresgruppe B, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86 ‘The units will fight…’, Kurt Meyer,

Grenadiers , Mechanicsburg, Pa., 2005, p. 270

p. 310 Frenchwoman at Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery, Simone Grieux-Isabelle, MdC TE 419

‘that the Panzer Group…’, Kriegstagebuch Panzer Group West/Fifth Panzer Army, BA-MA MSg 2/4831