D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

Infantry Regiment, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘their bodies for bayonet practice’, Briand North Beaudin, Medical Officer, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘I asked him wherehe got . . .’, William M. Sawyer, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, NWWIIM-EC
    German officer’s ring, Lieutenant Eugen Brierre, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 69 ‘Let’s go and find some Krauts to kill!’ and ‘These people had gone ape’, Sherman Oyler, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘Never before in the annals . . .’, Parker A. Alford, attached to 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘They couldn’t talk . . .’, Rainer Hartmetz, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 70 ‘We threw him in the cart . . .’, Don Malarkey, E Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘After a short march . . .’, ‘we could hear . . .’and ‘Weimmediatelytriedtoaidthe injured . . .’, John Fitzgerald, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 71 ‘The troop-carrying . . .’, Obergefreiter Hans S., 9.Kp./Gren.Rgt.1058, 91.(LL.) Inf.Div., BfZ-SS
    p. 72 ‘Upon landing, . . .’, Charles E. Skid-more Jr, 439th Troop Carrier Squadron, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘You’ve now seen . . .’, Pfc Carl Cartledge, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, WWII VS
    p. 73 ‘I am more thankful . . .’, Leigh-Mallory, letter 7 June, quoted Carlo D’Este, Eisenhower , New York, 2002, p. 530
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THE ARMADA CROSSES
    p. 74 Royal Navy in Operation Neptune, Naval Plan TNA ADM 1/16259
    ‘The Road to the Isles’, Piper Bill Millin, SWWEC T654/666
    ‘A-hunting We Will Go’, A. D. E. Curtis, R Force, SWWEC 2000.384
    ‘Marseillaise’, Dr Ian Campbell, RAMC, 2nd Field Dressing Station, SWWEC 2000.477
    ‘the traffic got thicker . . .’, Admiral G. B. Middleton, HMS Ramillies , letter 12 June, IWM 01/2/1
    p. 75 ‘a mixture of excitement . . .’, Edwin Bramall, ‘D-Day Plus One’, in More Tales from the Travellers , Oxford, 2005, p. 147
    memories of Dieppe, Rev. P. Symes, 4th County of London Yeomanry, SWWEC T563
    ‘as a last reminder’, Arthur Reddish, A Tank Soldier’s Story , privately published, undated, p. 21
    ‘The attempt to do . . .’, V Corps, NA II 407/427/24235
    p. 76 Operation Taxable and other diversions, TNA ADM 179/410
    p. 77 ‘Although attendance was . . .’, Ronald Seaborne, Royal Navy Forward Observer, 50th Division, NWWIIM-EC
    gambling on USS Samuel Chase , Oscar Rich, 5th Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘All are tense . . .’, LofC ‘Even though huddled . . .’, Gardner Botsford, A Life of Privilege, Mostly , New York, 2003, p. 21
    ‘who was going to . . .’ and ‘My thoughts turned to . . .’, Everett P. Schultheis, 467th Anti-aircraft Artillery, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘Anyone who has . . .’, Harold Baumgarten, Eyewitness on Omaha Beach , Jacksonville, Fla., 1994, p. 7
    ‘Don’t worry . . .’, K. G. Oakley, RN Beach Commando, Sword Beach, IWM 96/ 22/1
    p. 78 ‘approaching a great abyss . . .’, Cyrus C. Aydlett, USS Bayfield , NWWIIM-EC
    USS Shubrick , Edward T. Duffy, US Navy, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘dramatic announcement’, William F. Rellstab Jr, 388th Bomber Group, 562nd Squadron, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 79 ‘The preparations were staggering,’ Desmond Scott, Typhoon Pilot , London, 1982, p. 99
    Allied squadrons involved in D-Day operations, RAF-MoD
    p. 80 ‘to provide shelter . . .’, Weldon J. Allen, Pilot, 387th Bomb Group, diary, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘as much steak, pork . . .’, Theodore G. Aufort, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘wieners, beans . . .’, Sergeant Harry C. Bare, 116th Infantry, 29th Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘as if it were Nelson’s . . .’, Major George Young, Green Howards, SWWEC T2452
    ‘we might have been alongside . . .’, Ludovic Kennedy, SWWEC T320
    ‘skunk suits’, Vincent Schlotterbeck, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘nervously adjusting . . .’, Cyrus C. Aydlett, USS Bayfield , NWWIIM-EC
    p. 81 ‘We crept still further in . . .’, Lieutenant J. G. Pelly, IWM 91/15/1
    ‘Attention on deck! . . .’, John Raaen, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
    Seekommandant Normandie, Auszug aus dem Fernsprechmeldebuch der 352. I. D., Küstenverteidigungsabschnitt Bayeux, FMS B-388
    p. 82 duffel coats and cocoa, Jean-Louis Salmon, MdC TE 213
    ‘the whole horizon . . .’, Generalleutnant Joseph Reichert, 711th Infanterie-Division, FMS