‘a Tiger and Panther complex’, letter, 12 June, TNA WO205/5B
‘We are outshot…’, Algiers, 23 August 1943, Harry C. Butcher, Three Years with Eisenhower, London, 1946, p. 339
‘The squadron left…’, anonymous diary entry, 11 June, MdC TE 396
Eisenhower to Marshall, Brigadier Joseph A. Holly, 5 July, PDDE, p. 1973
p. 196 ‘I have received…’, No. 695, Prime Minister to President, 9 June, TNA PREM 3/472
‘passed convoys…’, Alanbrooke, pp. 556-7 (12 June)
p. 197 ‘There has been a recognizable…’, Churchill to Eden, 12 June, TNA PREM 3/339/7
‘We went and had…’, TNA PREM 3/ 339/7
HMS Ramillies, Admiral G. B. Middleton, IWM 01/2/1
‘a slight display…’ and ‘General de Gaulle’s personal flag…’, report of British Naval Liaison Officer, 16 June, TNA ADM 1/16018
p. 198 ‘Has it occurred…’, quoted in Henri Amouroux, La grande histoire, Vol. VIII, p. 546, and Robert Aron, Histoire de la Libération de la France, Paris, 1959, p. 78
‘did little to ingratiate them…’, report of British Naval Liaison Officer, TNA PREM 3/339/7
‘Monsieur le curé…’, Jean Lacouture, De Gaulle — Le Rebelle, Paris, 1984, p. 779
p. 199 ‘hated Laval, but not Pétain’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War, Lexington, Kentucky, 2006, p. 115
‘has left behind in Bayeux…’, Montgomery to Churchill, 14 June, TNA PREM 3/339/7
p. 200 ‘In my opinion we should…’, No. 561, President to Prime Minister, 14 June, TNA PREM 3/339/7
‘There is not a scrap…’, Churchill to Eden, 12 June, TNA PREM 3/339/7
‘Trojan horse’, Aron, p. 77
‘Le panorama…’, MdC TE 195 p. 201 ‘I simply cannot…’, André Heintz diary, MdC TE 32 (1-4)
Café owner, Dr Robert Chaperon, MdC TE 42
‘in the Middle Ages’, MdC TE 42 p. 202 Secours National, Céline Coantic-Dormoy, MdC TE 281
‘The English since…’ Le Dily diary, 11 June, MdC TE 143
‘le troc’, Claude Guillotin, 1944, ‘L’aventure de mes quinze ans’, Le Fresne-Camilly, MdC TE 397
p. 203 ‘a senior officer of the Military Police…’, Dr Ian Campbell, RAMC, 2nd Field Dressing Station, SWWEC 2000.477
‘during the morning…’, MdC TE 144
‘musical chairs’ and ‘Now there’s no need…’, Lieutenant Cyril Rand, 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles, MdC TE 499
p. 205 Red Army, see Antony Beevor and Lyuba Vinogradova (eds.), A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941- 1945, London, 2005, p. 109
‘The whole world…’, SS Untersturmführer Herbert E., 2.Kp./Nachr.Abt.SS. Pz.Div. ‘Hohenstaufen’, 6 June and 10 June, 24 742C, BfZ-SS
14. THE AMERICANS ON THE COTENTIN PENINSULA
p. 208 ‘Within a week…’, Lieutenant (MC) Alfred A. Schiller, USN, CWM/ MCG 58A
Omaha Beach command, NA II 407/427/ 212
‘Turn those prisoners…’, Barnett Hoffner, 6th Engineer Special Brigade, NWWIIM-EC
‘Those wounded paratroopers…’, Orval Wakefield (Naval Combat Demolition Unit), NWWIIM-EC
‘We had an incident…’, Charles C. Zalewski, LST 134, NWWIIM-EC
‘One of our ship’s officers…’, Ralph Crenshaw, LST 44, NWWIIM-EC
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