Antony Beevor - D-Day - The Battle for Normandy

p. 425 ‘Blimey! Square-bashing in tanks’, Ken Tout, Tank! , London, 1985, p. 17

2nd Canadian Infantry Division in Operation Totalize, report by Canadian Military Headquarters, NA II 407/427/24200

7th Norfolks crossing the Orne, Lieutenant Colonel Freeland, 7th Battalion Norfolk Regiment, MdC TE 168

p. 426 ‘The artillery has an awfully easy job…’, Lieutenant T. T. Ritson, RHA, diary, 6 August

‘A magnificent view of the Orne valley…’, William Helm, ‘The Normandy Field Diary of a Junior Medical Officer in 210 Field Ambulance’, 177th Brigade, 59th Infantry Division

‘Here on the British front…’, Myles Hildyard diary, 11 August

‘During these days…’, Rev. A. R. C. Leaney, IWM PP/MCR/206

p. 427 ‘What an honour!’, Hubert Meyer, The 12th SS , Vol. II, Mechanicsburg, Pa., 2005, p. 25

‘View Hallo!…’, Tout, p. 111

p. 428 destruction of five Tiger tanks, Hauptsturmführer Dr Wolfgang Rabe, quoted in Meyer, pp. 29-30; see also Stephen A. Hart, ‘The Black Day Unrealised’, in John Buckley (ed.), The Normandy Campaign 1944 , London, 2006

p. 429 ‘Other aircraft could not…’, Major Robert Kiln, Hertfordshire Yeomanry, 86th Field Artillery, SWWEC 99-63

‘The American air force…’, Aitken Hughes diary, 6 General Hospital, WLHUM RAMC 1771

‘unfortunate support…’, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1

‘the Sikorski tourists’, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1

p. 430 ‘becoming very serious…’, Heeresgruppe B, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87 p. 431 Generalleutnant Paul Dannhauser, 271st Infantry Division, FMS B-256

Plessis Grimoult, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T2150 p. 434 intelligence failure over anti-tank defences, Captain A. Potozynski, 10th Polish Mounted Rifles, SWWEC LEEWW 2000.327

Hitler Jugend claim 192 tanks destroyed, 20.55 hours, Chief of Staff Fifth Panzer Army, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87

OKW communiqué, BA-MA MSg 2/ 3242

Hitler Jugend prisoners in Operation Totalize, Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg? , Munich, 2007, p. 165

p. 433 ‘The forces are so large…’, Patton, letter 9 August, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940-1945 , New York, 1974, p. 504

‘appropriate the whole of fuel resupply…’, General John C. H. Lee, head of Com Z (Communications Zone), OCMH-FPP

Patton commandeering supply trucks, Harry C. Butcher, Three Years with Eisenhower , London, 1946, p. 550

60,000 gallons a day, Lieutenant Colonel Eugene Orth, 3rd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24088

125,000 gallons to move every 100 yards, Captain Cecil Oppenheim, QM, 3rd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24240

‘Miss America’, Lieutenant A. W. Loring, 133rd Engineer Combat Command, NA II 407/427/24242

‘This is an opportunity…’, Omar Bradley, A Soldier’s Story , New York, 1951, p. 372

p. 434 ‘the pay of an entire division’, 2nd Lieutenant A. Dominic Scialla, 735th Tank Battalion, 8 August, NA II 407/427/24242

5th Infantry Division in Angers, Lieutenant Anthony J. Miketinae, 11th Infantry, 5th Division, NA II 407/427/24241

‘The French beat up the collaborators…’, 2nd Lieutenant Derk van Raalte, 2nd Infantry, 5th Division, NA II 407/427/ 24241

‘lost his nerve’, Oberst Erich Helmdach, Ia Seventh Army, FMS B-822

p. 435 ‘supply troops, maintenance platoons…’, Bayerlein, FMS A-901

‘The counterattack against Avranches…’, Gersdorff, Chief of Staff Seventh Army, FMS A-921

‘It was inconceivable…’,Eberbach, FMS A-922

‘Enemy shellfire began falling…’, Eberbach, FMS A-922

Feldgendarmerie and roving courts martial, Oberst Erich Helmdach, Ia Seventh Army, FMS B-822

p. 436 Retreat of 1st SS Panzer-Division from Sourdeval, Eugen Finanz, MdC TE 351

‘Calvados still in German hands!’, Gefreiter Spiekerkötter, 2nd Pionier Kompanie, 265th Infanterie-Division, BA-MA MSg 2/ 5526

p. 437 Panthers at 2ème DB headquarters, Service de Santé, 2ème DB, SHD-DAT 11 P 232

‘badly disguised’, Marc de Possesse, 2ème DB, MdC TE 361

p. 438 ‘There was no one to take care of them’, 2nd Lieutenant R. W. Conger, 10th Tank Battalion, 5th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24241

Colonel McHugh, 318th Infantry, 80th Division, NA II 407/427/24242

p. 439 ‘ Vive l’Amérique! ’, Rev. Père Roger Fouquer, Aumônier Divisionnaire, 2ème DB, MdC TE 825

129 casualties, 8 August, SHD-DAT 11 P 219

Alsatian deserter, MdC TE 351

116th Panzer-Division in Argentan, Generalmajor Gerhard Müller, 116th Panzer-Division, FMS B-162

‘solid cork’, 2nd French Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24205

‘Upon capture…’, USAMHI, quoted in Carlo D’Este, Decision in Normandy , New York, 1983, p. 428

‘This corps could easily advance…’, Blumenson (ed.), p. 508

p. 440 For the effectiveness of anti-tank guns in defence see David Rowland, The Stress of Battle , Norwich, 2006, pp. 106-41

p. 441 ‘Very hot — not good…’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T501

Montgomery and Berlin, Harry C. Butcher, Three Years with Eisenhower , London, 1946, p. 551

p. 442 Tractable bombing attack, Terry Copp, Fields of Fire , Toronto, 2003, p. 229

‘The attack ordered by me…’, Eberbach, FMS A-922

p. 443 ‘It is really a great plan…’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940- 1945 , New York, 1974, p. 510

‘Take Orléans at once’, Major General Gilbert Cook, commanding XII Corps, Third Army, NA II 07/427/24241

‘The number of cases…’, Blumenson (ed.), p. 510

‘A few of the enlisted men…’, George Silverton, Chief of X Ray Department, 2nd Evacuation Hospital, MdC TE 710

6th Security Regiment captures American war correspondent, Heeresgruppe B, 14 August, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87

p. 444 ‘We’d have been happy…’, Gefreiter Spiekerkötter, 2nd Pionier Kompanie, 256th Infanterie-Division, BA-MA MSg 2/ 5526

‘a slimy paste’, Aitken Hughes diary, WLHUM RAMC 1771

‘more critical by the hour’, Heeresgruppe B, 14 August, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87

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

‘swine…’, Marshal of the RAF Lord Portal, OCMH-FPP

p. 445 ‘I cannot pretend…’, No. 742, Prime Minister to President, 4 August, TNA PREM 3/472

‘Ike said no…’, Butcher, p. 545

‘especially when the first paratroops…’ General Warlimont, ETHINT 1

p. 446 ‘One woman was raped…’, M.R.D. Foot, SOE in France , London, 1966, p. 393 head of the Gestapo in Châteauroux killed, SHD-DAT 13 P 33

‘128 terrorists…’, BA-MA MSg 2/3242

‘reprisals cannot be harsh enough’, BA-MA M-854, quoted in Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg? , Munich, 2007, p. 463

p. 447 the twenty-six worst massacres, ibid., pp. 574-80

for a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of French civilian casualty figures see ibid., pp. 412-15

‘counter-scorching’, Foot, p. 391

p. 448 ‘military events having taken…’, Faugère, AN F/1cIII/1166

Laval and Pétain, AN F/1cIII/1166

‘regions where hideous…’,AN AJ/41/56

‘In the face of these barbarous acts…’, TNA WO 171/337, quoted in Lieb, p. 396 p. 449 ‘I watched an open lorry…’, John Colville, The Fringes of Power , London, 1985, p. 475

‘their look, in the hands…’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War , Lexington, Kentucky, 2001, p. 199

‘The French were rounding…’, Colonel McHugh, 318th Infantry, 80th Division, NA II 407/427/24242