D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

Battleships
    USS Arkansas
    USS Nevada
    USS Texas
    US Navy, Cruisers
    USS Augusta
    USS Quincy
    USS Tuscaloosa
    US Navy, Destroyers
    USS Corry
    USS Harding
    USS Satterlee
    US Navy, Command and Transport Ships
    USS Ancon
    USS Bayfield
    USS Samuel Chase
    USS Shubrick
    Utah beach(map)

    V-1 flying bomb (‘Diver’)
    ‘anti-Diver’ operations
    Valognes
    Vannes
    Varaville
    Vaucelles
    Vercors, FFI battle
    Verrières ridge
    Vichy regime (Etat français)
    Viénot, Pierre
    Vierville (Cotentin)
    Vierville-sur-Mer (Omaha)
    Villebaudon
    Villedieu-les-Poêles
    Villers-Bocage (map)
    Vimoutiers
    Vire, town
    Vire, river and valley
    Volksdeutsche

    Waffen-SS
    advance to the front
    discipline
    and Hitler
    indoctrination
    morale
    rivalry with German Army
    Waffen-SS, Corps
    I SS Panzer
    II SS Panzer
    Waffen-SS, Divisions
    1st SS Pz-Div Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler
    2nd SS Pz-Div Das Reich
    9th SS Pz-Div Hohenstaufen
    10th SS Pz-Div Frundsberg
    12th SS Pz-Div Hitler Jugend
    17th SS Pzgr-Div Götz von Berlichingen
    Waffen-SS, Regiments etc.
    1st SS Pzgr-Rgt
    2nd SS Pz-Rgt
    Deutschland -Pzgr-Rgt
    Führer -Pzgr-Rgt
    19th SS Pzgr-Rgt
    20th SS Pzgr-Rgt
    21st SS Pzgr-Rgt
    25th SS Pzgr-Rgt
    26th SS Pzgr-Rgt
    37th SS Pzgr-Rgt
    38th SS Pzgr-Rgt
    101st SS Heavy Pz Bn
    102nd SS Heavy Pz Bn
    Wagner, Gen Eduard
    War damage
    Warlimont, Gen d. Art Walter
    Warsaw uprising
    Weintrob, Maj David
    Weiss, Lt Robert
    Westover, Lt John
    Weyman, Brig Gen
    Whistler, Lt Rex
    Whitehead, Don
    Williams, Brig E. T.
    Wilmot, Chester
    Witt, Brigadeführer Fritz
    Wittmann, Obersturmführer Michael
    Witzleben, GFM.
    Wolfsschanze , Rastenburg
    Wood, Maj Gen John S.

    Ziegelmann, ObLt
    Zimmermannn, GenLt Bodo

Acknowledgements
    College Park, Maryland; Dr Conrad Crane, director of the US Army Military History Institute in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and his staff; the staff of the National Archives at Kew; the Trustees and staff of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives; Alain Talon at the Archives Départementales de la Manche; Frau Jana Brabant at the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv in Freiburg-im-Breisgau; and Frau Irina Renz of the Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte in Stuttgart. As well as Sebastian Cox, I am also grateful to Clive Richards, the senior researcher at the Air Force Historical Branch, for his assistance.
    At the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Dr Gordon H. Mueller, Jeremy Collins and Seth Paridon could not have been more welcoming while I worked on the Eisenhower Center archive. I was also deeply touched by the kindness of everyone at the Mémorial de Caen: Stéphane Grimaldi, Stéphane Simonnet, Christophe Prime and Marie-Claude Berthelot, who put up with me for so long and so often.
    I also owe a great deal to those who so kindly lent me their own diaries and letters or those of their parents. I am most grateful to David Christopherson, who sent me the diary of his father, Colonel Stanley Christopherson; Professor J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson; James Donald; L. B. Fiévet (the great-nephew of Raoul Nordling); Brigadier P. T. F. Gowans, OAM; Toby and Sarah Helm for the diary of their father, Dr Bill Helm; the late Myles Hildyard; and Charles Quest-Ritson for the collected letters of his father, Lieutenant T. T. Ritson, RHA. Others, such as Morten Malmø, Miles d’Arcy-Irvine and Philip Windsor-Aubrey, have offered leads and supplementary material, and William Mortimer Moore sent me his unpublished biography of General Leclerc. Dr Lyubov Vinogradova and Michelle Miles have helped with research and Angelica von Hase has again checked my translation and provided many useful details.
    Once more, this whole project has been immeasurably assisted by Andrew Nurnberg, my literary agent for the last quarter of a century, by my editor Eleo Gordon at Penguin and by Lesley Levene, the copy-editor. But as always, my greatest thanks go to my wife, Artemis Cooper, who has edited, corrected and improved the text from start to finish.

Notes
    ABBREVIATIONS
    ADdC Archives départementales du Calvados, Caen
    AdM Archives de la Manche, Saint-Lô
    AFRHA Air Force Research Historical Agency, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
    AHB Air Historical Branch, Ministry of Defence, Northwood
    AN Archives Nationales, Paris
    AVP Archives de la Ville de Paris
    AVPRF Arkhiv Vneshnoi Politiki Rossiiskii Federatsii (Foreign Policy Archives of the Russian Federation), Moscow
    BA-MA Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg-im-Breisgau
    BD Bruce Diary, Papers of David Bruce, Virginia Historical