‘Often, a yellow…’, Lieutenant John R. Blackburn, Sky Control, USS Quincy, NWWIIM-EC
p. 63 ‘Our plane never did slow…’, Major Leland A. Baker, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘US parachute troops landed…’, Obergefreiter Hans S., 9.Kp./Gren.Rgt.1058, 91.(LL.)Inf.Div., BfZ-SS
‘watermelons falling off…’, Sherman Oyler, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
p. 64 ‘damn cricket’, Parker A. Alford, attached to 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, NWWIIM-EC
p. 66 ‘I had put it there…’, John Fitzgerald, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, NWWIIM-EC
Map of the Cotentin, Captain R. H. Brown, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, NA II 407/427/24242
‘The Germans thought we were…’, Fred C. Patheiger, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘Ou es Alamon?’, Chris Courneotes Kanaras, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
death of General Falley, Frank McKee, 82nd Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
p. 67 ‘Get to the drop zone…’, Chris Courneotes Kanaras, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘They didn’t come down to give us candies…’, Rainer Hartmetz, NWWIIM-EC p. 68 ‘nobody said a thing’, Ken Cordry, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, NWWIIM-EC
‘you didn’t dare trust him…’, Don Malarkey, E Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘with their privates cut off…’, William Oatman, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, NWWIIM-EC
‘their bodies for bayonet practice’, Briand North Beaudin, Medical Officer, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘I asked him wherehe got…’, William M. Sawyer, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, NWWIIM-EC
German officer’s ring, Lieutenant Eugen Brierre, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
p. 69 ‘Let’s go and find some Krauts to kill!’ and ‘These people had gone ape’, Sherman Oyler, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘Never before in the annals…’, Parker A. Alford, attached to 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, NWWIIM-EC
‘They couldn’t talk…’, Rainer Hartmetz, NWWIIM-EC
p. 70 ‘We threw him in the cart…’, Don Malarkey, E Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘After a short march…’, ‘we could hear…’and ‘Weimmediatelytriedtoaidthe injured…’, John Fitzgerald, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, NWWIIM-EC
p. 71 ‘The troop-carrying…’, Obergefreiter Hans S., 9.Kp./Gren.Rgt.1058, 91.(LL.) Inf.Div., BfZ-SS
p. 72 ‘Upon landing,…’, Charles E. Skid-more Jr, 439th Troop Carrier Squadron, NWWIIM-EC
‘You’ve now seen…’, Pfc Carl Cartledge, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, WWII VS
p. 73 ‘I am more thankful…’, Leigh-Mallory, letter 7 June, quoted Carlo D’Este, Eisenhower, New York, 2002, p. 530
6. THE ARMADA CROSSES
p. 74 Royal Navy in Operation Neptune, Naval Plan TNA ADM 1/16259
‘The Road to the Isles’, Piper Bill Millin, SWWEC T654/666
‘A-hunting We Will Go’, A. D. E. Curtis, R Force, SWWEC 2000.384
‘Marseillaise’, Dr Ian Campbell, RAMC, 2nd Field Dressing Station, SWWEC 2000.477
‘the traffic got thicker…’, Admiral G. B. Middleton, HMS Ramillies, letter 12 June, IWM 01/2/1
p. 75 ‘a mixture of excitement…’, Edwin Bramall, ‘D-Day Plus One’, in More Tales from the Travellers, Oxford, 2005, p. 147
memories of Dieppe, Rev. P. Symes, 4th County of London Yeomanry, SWWEC T563
‘as a last reminder’, Arthur Reddish, A Tank Soldier’s Story, privately published, undated, p. 21
‘The attempt to do…’, V Corps, NA II 407/427/24235
p. 76 Operation Taxable and other diversions, TNA ADM 179/410
p. 77 ‘Although attendance was…’, Ronald Seaborne, Royal Navy Forward Observer, 50th Division, NWWIIM-EC
gambling on USS Samuel Chase, Oscar Rich, 5th Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘All are tense…’, LofC ‘Even though huddled…’, Gardner Botsford, A Life of Privilege, Mostly, New York, 2003, p. 21
‘who was going to…’ and ‘My thoughts turned to…’, Everett P. Schultheis, 467th Anti-aircraft Artillery, NWWIIM-EC
‘Anyone who has…’, Harold Baumgarten, Eyewitness on Omaha Beach, Jacksonville, Fla., 1994, p. 7
‘Don’t worry…’, K. G. Oakley, RN Beach Commando, Sword Beach, IWM 96/ 22/1
p. 78 ‘approaching a great abyss…’, Cyrus C. Aydlett, USS Bayfield, NWWIIM-EC
USS Shubrick, Edward T. Duffy, US Navy, NWWIIM-EC
‘dramatic announcement’, William F. Rellstab Jr, 388th Bomber Group, 562nd Squadron, NWWIIM-EC
p. 79 ‘The preparations were staggering,’ Desmond Scott, Typhoon Pilot, London, 1982, p. 99
Allied squadrons involved in D-Day operations, RAF-MoD
p. 80 ‘to provide shelter…’, Weldon J. Allen, Pilot, 387th Bomb Group, diary, NWWIIM-EC
‘as much steak, pork…’, Theodore G. Aufort, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘wieners, beans…’, Sergeant Harry C. Bare, 116th Infantry, 29th Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘as if it were Nelson’s…’, Major George Young, Green Howards, SWWEC T2452
‘we might have been alongside…’, Ludovic Kennedy, SWWEC T320
‘skunk suits’, Vincent Schlotterbeck, NWWIIM-EC
‘nervously adjusting…’, Cyrus C. Aydlett, USS Bayfield, NWWIIM-EC
p. 81 ‘We crept still further in…’, Lieutenant J. G. Pelly, IWM 91/15/1
‘Attention on deck!…’, John Raaen, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
Seekommandant Normandie, Auszug aus dem Fernsprechmeldebuch der 352. I. D., Küstenverteidigungsabschnitt Bayeux, FMS B-388
p. 82 duffel coats and cocoa, Jean-Louis Salmon, MdC TE 213
‘the whole horizon…’, Generalleutnant Joseph Reichert, 711th Infanterie-Division, FMS B-403
smokescreen, Admiral G. B. Middleton, HMS Ramillies, letter 12 June, IWM 01/2/1
p. 83 ‘The screen was literally…’, Anthony Drexel Duke, NWWIIM-EC
‘Get your damn helmet on’, Kenneth Romanski, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘During this half-hour…’, Major Dallas, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry, 29th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24034
p. 84 ‘Good hunting, Rangers!’, Lieutenant Francis W. Dawson, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
‘the loneliest time…’, Alfred F. Birra, 237th Engineers with 4th Infantry Division, Folder Birra, Alfred F., DDEL
‘That, sirs…’, John Raaen, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
‘The big guns…’, Ludovic Kennedy, SWWEC T320
‘It was a strange sight…’, Robert L. Bogart, Staff Sergeant, 1st Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘The other landing-craft…’, Vernon Scannell, Argument of Kings, London, 1987, p. 145
p. 85 ‘started throwing up…’, Kenneth Romanski, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
senior officer in Jeep, Ronald Seaborne, Royal Navy Forward Observer, 50th Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘to be a bloody…’, Stanley Christopherson diary
‘Floater, five thousand!’, Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, diary, SWWEC T501