D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

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    smokescreen, Admiral G. B. Middleton, HMS Ramillies , letter 12 June, IWM 01/2/1
    p. 83 ‘The screen was literally . . .’, Anthony Drexel Duke, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘Get your damn helmet on’, Kenneth Romanski, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘During this half-hour . . .’, Major Dallas, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry, 29th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24034
    p. 84 ‘Good hunting, Rangers!’, Lieutenant Francis W. Dawson, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘the loneliest time . . .’, Alfred F. Birra, 237th Engineers with 4th Infantry Division, Folder Birra, Alfred F., DDEL
    ‘That, sirs . . .’, John Raaen, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘The big guns . . .’, Ludovic Kennedy, SWWEC T320
    ‘It was a strange sight . . .’, Robert L. Bogart, Staff Sergeant, 1st Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘The other landing-craft . . .’, Vernon Scannell, Argument of Kings , London, 1987, p. 145
    p. 85 ‘started throwing up . . .’, Kenneth Romanski, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
    senior officer in Jeep, Ronald Seaborne, Royal Navy Forward Observer, 50th Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘to be a bloody . . .’, Stanley Christopherson diary
    ‘Floater, five thousand!’, Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, diary, SWWEC T501
    p. 86 ‘Off Asnelles . . .’, 352nd Infanterie-Division, 6 June log, Bayeux Sector, FMS B-388
    ‘Fancy having . . .’, David Howarth, Dawn of D-Day , London, 1959, p. 185
    rocket bombardment of Cabourg, conversation M. R. D. Foot
    ‘missed the target entirely . . .’, Combat Team, 16th Infantry, NA II 407/427/5927 p. 87 ‘Well, Ike . . .’, PDDE 1588- 9
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OMAHA
    p. 88 description of Omaha, V Corps, NA II 407/427/24235
    For Gerow and the planning of the Omaha operation see especially Adrian R. Lewis, Omaha Beach - A Flawed Victory , North Carolina, 2001
    p. 90 ‘the greatest firepower . . .’, Harry C. Butcher, Three Years with Eisenhower , London, 1946, p. 453
    ‘about whether the importance...’, LHCMA Liddell Hart 11/1944/7
    ‘It’s far too rough . . .’, Major General L. Scott-Bowden, SWWEC T2236
    DD tanks, 741st and 743rd Tank Battalions, NA II 407/427/24235; and Dean Rockwell, US Navy, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 91 ‘the Americans bungled ...’, LHCMA, Liddell Hart 11/1944/37
    for the debate on DD tanks, see Lewis, pp. 307-18
    ‘precision bombing’, ibid., pp. 184-90
    ‘The Air Corps might just . . .’, NAII 407/427/5927
    German gunnery practice, ADdC 6 W4
    p. 92 shelling of Vierville, Michel Hardelay, MdC TE 59
    ‘The invasion fleet was like . . .’, Obergefreiter Alfred Sturm, 9. Kp., II Battalion, 726th Infanterie-Regiment, 716th Infanterie-Division, MdC TE 805
    ‘stretching in front of our coast . . .’, Franz Gockel, MdC TE 500
    ‘heavy bombardment . . .’, 352nd Infanterie-Division, 6 June log, FMS B-388
    352nd Artillerie-Regiment and 716th Artillerie-Regiment, see Niklas Zetterling, Normandy 1944 , Winnipeg, 2000, pp. 277-9 and 297-9
    p. 93 Kraiss’s dispositions, for an excellent summary see Joseph Balkoski, Beyond the Beachhead , Mechanicsburg, Pa., 1999, pp. 73-8
    absence of fire from the beach, Sergeant HarryC. Bare, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC
    dead fish, Captain Joseph T. Dawson NA II 407/427/24011
    ‘bucking like . . .’, Edwin J. Best, First Lieutenant, 6th Engineer Special Brigade NWWIIM-EC
    ‘reeked of vomit’, John Raaen, 5th Ranger Battalion, WWII VS
    navigation difficulties, Robert E. Adams, US Coast Guard, LCVP #22, USS Samuel Chase , NWWIIM-EC
    p. 94 Royal Navy landing craft crews, I am grateful to Dr Kevan Elsby and Joseph Balkoski for information correcting the false impressions of earlier accounts.
    ‘Soon we became conscious . . .’, Lieutenant (MC) Alfred A. Schiller, USN, CWM/ MCG 58A
    ‘Make it look good, men . . .’, First Lieutenant Donald S. Newbury, NA II 407/427/ 24242
    experienced coxswains, E. Adams, US Coast Guard, LCVP #22., USS Samuel Chase , NWWIIM-EC
    ‘Astherampwentdown . . .’,Pozek, 116th Regiment, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘if you slipped . . .’, J. Robert Slaughter, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, MdC TE 231
    p. 95 ‘bullets were splashing . . .’, William Huch, E Company, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, Folder Huch, William, DDEL
    ‘had a gaping wound...’, Harold Baumgarten, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘I’m hit! I’m hit!’, Private Elmer E. Matekintis, 16th Infantry, 1st Division, NA II 407/ 427/24242
    ‘as it