p. 351 ‘a lot of looting’, Lieutenant John B. Derden, 66th Armored Regiment, WWII VS
‘The number of kill-lusty people…’, Captain Jim R. Burt, 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division, WWII VS
‘Private De Castro…,’ E Company, 22nd Infantry, NA II 407/427/24021
p. 352 Montreuil-sur-Lozon, Brigadier General Doyle O. Hickey, Combat Command A, 3rd Armored Division, NA II 407/ 427/24088
‘overhead like hawks…’, General Schmidt, 275th Infanterie-Division, FMS A-973
‘friendly tanks’ and ‘an old soldier…’, NA II 407/427/6431
‘We were riding along…’, Lieutenant George O. Grant, 69th Tank Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24241
p. 353 ‘good clothes’, Blumenson (ed.), p. 489
‘I tell you one thing, Sani…’, SanUffz Walter Klein, Kampfgruppe Heintz, FMS A-910
p. 354 Browning and air drop on Avranches, Wing Commander Scarman, Tedder’s aide, OCMH-FPP
‘Felt much happier over the war…’, Blumenson (ed.), p. 490
‘Because of heavy losses…’, TNA DEFE 3/ 63
‘a rather confused situation’, General der Panzertruppen Freiherr von Lüttwitz, 2nd Panzer-Division, FMS A-903
‘the din of shell-fire…’, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923
p. 355 ‘from staff to staff…’, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923
p. 356 ‘just rushed on through’, Lieutenant George O. Grant, 69th Tank Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24241
Collins’s criticism of 3rd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24235
p. 357 6th Armored Division on 28 July, 69th Tank Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24241
‘no forces fit for battle’ and ‘neither light nor medium…’, 28 July, TNA DEFE 3/ 63
‘used to fire point-blank…’, VII Corps, NA II 407/427/24235
‘For five days…’, SanUffz Walter Klein, Kampfgruppe Heintz, FMS A-910
‘when other elements…’, Lieutenant James J. Williams, 47th Infantry, 9th Division, NA II 407/427/24241
tension between SS and paratroops, Oberstleutnant Friedrich Freiherr von der Heydte, 6th Paratroop Regiment, FMS B-839
p. 358 the sacking of Generalmajor Pemsel, Generalmajor Freiherr von Gersdorff, Chief of Staff Seventh Army, FMS A-894
p. 359 ‘on the road all night’ and ‘that they did it…’, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/ 427/6431
‘a knocked out enemy vehicle standing…’, NA II 407/427/24021
‘only one-way traffic…’, Major William A. Castille, Combat Command B, 3rd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24088
‘Hell, with in a couple of days…’, William M. King, 44th Armored Infantry Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/ 24241
‘they crapped in them and cooked in them’, Captain Thomas P. Jacobs, MD, 45th Armored Medical Battalion, 3rd Armored Division, WWII VS
2nd Panzer-Division on 29 July, General der Panzertruppen Freiherr von Lüttwitz, FMS A-903
p. 360 Captain Reid and Private Sharkey, 22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24021
p. 361 Moyon engagement, Combat Command Rose, NA II 407/427/24021
82nd Reconnaissance Battalion, Major Willis T. Smith, 67th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/ 24242
p. 362 ‘by single rifle shots…’, Lieutenant Colonel Briard P. Johnson, Executive Officer of Combat Command B, 2nd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24082
Sergeant Bishop and ‘Action during the fight…’, Lieutenant Colonel Harry Hilliard, 3rd Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment, NA II 407/427/24082
‘their vehicles down the hill…’, NA II 407/427/24082
‘Even the use…’, Lieutenant Colonel Marshall L. Crowley, 41st Armored Infantry Regiment, 2nd Armored Division, 22 September, NA II 407/427/24082
p. 363 ‘The mortars set the vehicles…’, Lieutenant Colonel John D. Wynne, 2nd Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment, NA II 407/427/24082
‘Then the organized slaughter…’, Captain James R. McCartney, 67th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24082
‘as day light broke…’, Lieutenant Colonel John D. Wynne, 2nd Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment, NA II 407/427/24082
Death of Generalleutnant Kraiss, Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg? , Munich, 2007, p. 548
p. 364 ‘The whole area…’ and ‘prisoners were coming…’, NA II 407/427/24082
‘German equipment, abandoned…’, General Doyle O. Hickey, Combat Command A, 3rd Armored Division, NA II 407/ 427/24088
‘Carnage gruesome…’, diary of Captain Thomas P. Jacobs, MD, 45th Armored Medical Battalion, 3rd Armored Division, WWII VS
Generalmajor Freiherr von Gersdorff, Chief of Staff Seventh Army, FMS A-894
demolitions and looting in Granville, Commissariat de Police de Granville, AdM 1370 W 1
p. 365 ‘urgent orders to prevent…’, General Warlimont, ETHINT 1
‘Pour it to them!’, Lieutenant Sancken, 4th Reconnaissance Troop, NA II 407/427/ 6431
‘The thing to do…’, Blumenson (ed.), p. 491
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p. 366 ‘I have ordered Dempsey…’, quoted in Carlo D’Este, Decision in Normandy , New York, 1983, p. 422
‘grinds to a halt…’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T2150
‘Monty is determined to make us…’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T2150
p. 367 ‘The crews were shaken…’, Ian Daglish, ‘Operation Bluecoat’, in John Buckley (ed.), The Normandy Campaign 1944, London, 2006, p. 95
p. 369 326th Infanterie-Division, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/106
21st Panzer-Division, FMS B-631
3rd Scots Guards, Major Charles Farrell, SWWEC 2001.960
‘wearing only a vest…’, Alexander McKee, Caen, London, 1965, p. 308 p. 370 Coastal battery at Granville and Aulock Kampfgruppe, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86
‘unforgettable sight…’, Gefreiter Spiekerkötter, 2nd Pionier Kompanie, 256th Infanterie-Division, BA-MA MSg 2/5526
p. 371 ‘The situation is extraordinarily…’, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86
‘a most forceful order…’, Telephone Journal, Seventh Army, NA II 407/427/ 6431
Kluge to Eberbach, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/106
‘under all circumstances…’, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86
p. 372 ‘Do not stop…’ and ‘facetiously suggested…’, General Doyle O. Hickey, Combat Command A, 3rd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24088
p. 373 action in Brécey, Captain Carlton Parish Russell, 36th Armored Infantry Regiment, 3rd Armored Division, WWII VS
‘more dangerous than…’, Daily Operations, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/ 427/6431
‘a very jolly…’, Charles Whiting, Papa Goes to War, Marlborough, 1990, p. 66
p. 374 ‘take the first picture…’, Robert Capa, Slightly out of Focus, New York, 1947, p. 168
looting and lynch mob in Granville, Commissariat de Police de Granville, AdM 1370 W 1
‘Ah, Monsieur…’, anon., MdC TE 388
‘Our boys got their souvenirs…’, Lieutenant D. S. Woodward, 69th Tank Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/ 427/24241
p. 375 Resistance attack in the Landes, LCMHA Misc 24
armoured train derailed Souillac, TNA DEFE 3/62
‘throughout history…’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940-1945, New York, 1974, p. 493
‘As many troops as possible…’, XV Corps, NA II 407/427/24203
p. 376 ‘Gentlemen, this breakthrough…’, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247