D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

A. Wilkins, 149th Combat Engineers, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘As we passed through . . .’, Arthur Reddish, A Tank Soldier’s Story , privately published, undated, p. 21
    p. 10 ‘I’ve been fattened up . . .’, quoted in Stuart Hills, By Tank into Normandy , London, 2002, p. 64
    ‘All are tense . . .’, LofC
    ‘The women who have come . . .’, Mollie Panter-Downes, London War Notes , London, 1971, p. 324
    ‘One night . . .,’ Ernest A. Hilberg, 18th Infantry, 1st Division, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 11 ‘Had it not been fraught . . .’, Stagg, p. 86
    ‘If I answered that . . .’, ibid., p. 88
    p. 12 ‘Good luck, Stagg . . .’, ibid., p. 91
    ‘Gentlemen . . . The fears . . .’, ibid., pp. 97-8
    ‘Eisenhower’s forces are landing . . .’, Butcher, p. 481
    ‘the sky was almost clear . . .’, Stagg, p. 99
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BEARING THE CROSS OF LORRAINE
    p. 14 ‘an empty feeling . . .’, Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries 1939-1945 , London, 2001, pp. 553-4 (5 June)
    ‘The British had a much . . .’, Colonel C. H. Bonesteel III, G-3 Plans, 12th Army Group, OCMH-FPP
    p. 15 ‘display some form of “reverse Dunkirk” . . .’, TNA HW 1/12309
    ‘My dear Winston . . .’, CAC CHAR 20/ 136/004
    ‘peevish’, Butcher quoting Commander Thompson, Harry C. Butcher, Three Years with Eisenhower , London, 1946, p. 480
    ‘Winston meanwhile . . .’, Alanbrooke, p. 553
    p. 16 ‘As I understand it . . .’, Prime Minister to President, 23 February, in answer to telegram No. 457, TNA PREM 3/472
    ‘an insurrectional government’, quoted in Jean Lacouture, De Gaulle , New York, 1990, p. 511
    De Gaulle and Waterloo, Robert and Isabelle Tombs, That Sweet Enemy , London, 2006, p. 569
    ‘You might do him a great deal . . .’, Prime Minister to President, 20 April, TNA PREM 3/472
    p. 17 ‘I am unable at this time,’ 13 May, TNA PREM 3/472
    Eisenhower and CFNL, PDDE, p. 1592
    ‘acute embarrassment’, SCAF 24, 11 May, TNA PREM 3/345/1
    ‘a working arrangement’, Prime Minister to President, 12 May, TNA PREM 3/472
    Joan of Arc mass, 14 May, SHD-DAT 11 P 218
    p. 18 ‘Thanks to jokes . . .’, quoted in Max Hastings, Overlord , London, 1984, p. 69
    ‘all the faults . . .’, Prime Minister to President, 26 May, TNA PREM 3/472
    ‘the interest of security . . .’, 13 May, TNA PREM 3/472
    ‘This did not endear . . .’, M. R. D. Foot, SOE in France , London, 1966, p. 241
    ‘C’ to Prime Minister, TNA PREM 3/ 345/1
    p. 19 ‘Above all...’, Duff Cooper diary, 2 June, John Julius Norwich (ed.), The Duff Cooper Diaries , London, 2005, p. 306
    ‘My dear General de Gaulle . . .’, TNA PREM 3/345/11
    ‘absolutely unrecognized . . .’, Charles de Gaulle, Mémoires de Guerre , Vol. II, Paris, 1959, pp. 223-4
    p. 20 ‘We are going to liberate . . .’ and ‘To de Gaulle, who never accepted defeat’, quoted in Lacouture, pp. 522
    ‘wished to suggest . . .’, Bedell Smith to Churchill, 5 June, TNA PREM 3/339/6 p. 21 ‘Gentlemen, since I presented . . .’, J. M. Stagg, Forecast for Overlord , London, 1971, p. 113
    p. 22 ‘He always gets a lift . . .’, Butcher, p. 482
    cut-throat razors, Pfc Carl Cartledge, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, WWII VS
    ‘to crawl through . . .’, William True, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 23 the paratrooper winning $2,500, Arthur B. ‘Dutch’ Schultz, C Company, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 24 ‘There was a great feeling . . .’, Parker A. Alford, 26th Field Artillery, 9th Infantry Division, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘he also said . . .’, Don Malarkey, E Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘Men, what you’re going . . .’, Edward C. Boccafogli, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘Look to the right of you . . .’, Major General S. H. Matheson, Regimental Adjutant of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 25 ‘ übelste Untermenschentum amerikanischer Slums ’, BA-MA RW 2/v.44, quoted in Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg? , Munich, 2007, p. 132
    ‘one for pain . . .’, Pfc Carl Cartledge, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, WWII VS
    p. 26 ‘He was standing there . . .’, Edward C. Boccafogli, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘informality and friendliness with troopers’, Butcher, p. 485
    ‘What’s your name,