D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

Society, Richmond, Virginia
    BfZ-SS Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte, Sammlung Sterz, Stuttgart
    CAC Churchill Archive Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge
    CMH Center of Military History, Washington, DC
    CRHQ Centre de Recherche d’Histoire Quantitative, University of Caen
    CWM/MCG Canadian War Memorial/ Mémorial Canadien de la Guerre
    DDEL Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas
    DTbA Deutsches Tagebucharchiv, Emmendingen
    DWS Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
    ETHINT European Theater Historical Interrogations, 1945, USAMHI
    FMS Foreign Military Studies, USAMHI
    HP Harris Papers, RAF Museum, Hendon
    IfZ Archiv des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte, Munich
    IHTP-CNRS Reports from the German Military Commander in France and the synthesis of the reports from the French prefects 1940-44, edited by the German Historical Institute Paris and the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent, revised by Regina Delacor, Jürgen Finger, Peter Lieb, Vincent Viet and Florent Brayard
    IMT International Military Tribunal
    IWM Imperial War Museum archives, London
    LHCMA Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, London
    LofC Library of Congress, The Veterans’ History Project, Washington, DC
    MdC Mémorial de Caen archives, Normandy
    MHSA Montana Historical Society Archives
    NA II National Archives II, College Park, Maryland
    NAC/ANC National Archives of Canada/Archives Nationales du Canada
    NWWIIM-EC National World War II Museum, Eisenhower Center archive, New Orleans
    OCMH-FPP Office of the Chief of Military History, Forrest Pogue Papers, Forrest C. Pogue’s interview notes for Supreme Command , Washington, 1954, now with USAMHI
    PDDE The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower , Vol. III, The War Years , edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Baltimore, MD, 1970
    PP Portal Papers, Christ Church Library, Oxford
    ROHA Rutgers Oral History Archive
    SHD-DAT Service Historique de la Défense, Département de l’Armée de Terre, Vincennes
    SODP Senior Officers’ Debriefing Program, US Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
    SWWEC Second World War Experience Centre archive, Horsforth, Leeds
    TNA The National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office), Kew
    USAMHI United States Army Military History Institute, US Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
    WLHUM Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London
    WWII VS World War II Veterans’ Survey, USAMHI
     
    In addition the private diaries of the following people have been used:
    Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Christopherson, Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry
    Lieutenant William Helm, 210 Field Ambulance, 177th Brigade, 59th Infantry Division
    Captain Myles Hildyard, intelligence officer with 7th Armoured Division
    Lieutenant T. T. Ritson, RHA
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THE DECISION
    p. 2 ‘For heaven’s sake, Stagg’, J. M. Stagg, Forecast for Overlord , London, 1971, p. 69
    ‘pre-D-Day jitters’, Harry C. Butcher, Three Years with Eisenhower , London, 1946,
    p. 479
    p. 3 Plan Fortitude, TNA WO 219/5187
    p. 4 ‘Garbo’, TNA KV 2/39-2/42 and 2/63-2/71
    Ironside, TNA KV 2/2098
    ‘Bronx’, TNA KV 2/2098
    destruction of airfields, Luftgau West France, TNA HW 1/2927
    Bletchley watch system, TNA HW 8/86 p. 5 ‘Latest evidence suggests . . .’, TNA HW 40/6
    ‘my circus wagon’, Carlo D’Este, Eisenhower , New York, 2002, p. 518
    ‘to establish a belt . . .’, TNA WO 205/ 12
    ‘There is no doubt . . .’, Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries 1939-1945 , London, 2001, p. 575
    p. 6 ‘Nice chap, no soldier’, Cornelius Ryan interview, Ohio University Library Department of Archives and Special Collections
    ‘national spectacles pervert . . .’, Alanbrooke, p. 575
    ‘My hat is worth ...’, Duff Hart-Davis (ed.), King’s Counsellor , London, 2006, p. 196-7
    ‘Monty is perhaps . . .’, LHCMA Liddell Hart 11/1944/11
    ‘The bloody Durhams . . .’, Harry Moses, The Faithful Sixth , Durham, 1995, p. 270. I am most grateful to Miles d’Arcy-Irvine, Major Philip Windsor-Aubrey, Major C. Lawton, Harry Moses and Richard Atkinson for their help on this incident
    p. 7 ‘unsatisfactory’, NA II 407/427/24132
    ‘hayseed expression ... pragmatic ...’, Martin Blumenson, The Battle of the Generals , New York, 1993, p. 35
    p. 8 ‘made everyone angry’, Major General Kenner, chief medical officer, SHAEF, OCMH-FPP
    ‘The landings in . . .’, quoted in Butcher, p. 525
    Omaha reconnaissance, Major General L. Scott-Bowden, SWWEC T2236
    p. 9 ‘When we left . . .’, Robert