D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

hit the wet sand . . .’, Harry Parley, 2nd Battalion, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘He screamed for a medic...’, J. Robert Slaughter, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, MdC TE 231
    p. 96 ‘frontal and enfilade’, V Corps, NA II 407/427/24235
    ‘fifty or sixty feet . . .’, Staff Sergeant Robert L. Bogart, 1st Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘We went to work . . .’, William M. Jenkins, US Navy Reserve (Navy Combat Demolition Unit), MdC TE 438
    ‘I’ve never in all my life . . .’, William Huch, E Company, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, Folder Huch, William, DDEL
    p. 97 121st Combat Engineer Battalion, Lieutenant P. W. J. Mallory, NA II 407/ 427/24242
    ‘Some men were crying . . .’, Second Lieutenant John T. Czuba, 116th Infantry, NA II 407/427/24242
    ‘men were tumbling . . .’, Alan Anderson, 467th Anti-aircraft Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
    men trying to climb back on landing craft, Robert V. Miller, US Navy, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘Some of our boys said . . .’, 116th Infantry, 29th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/ 24241
    ‘another miserable . . .’, Lieutenant Ed R. McNabb Jr, H Company, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NA II 407/427/24242
    p. 98 ‘We talked to them . . .’, NA II 407/ 427/24034
    ‘yelled down at the troops . . .’,JohnRaaen, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘I saw a man coming . . .’, Captain C. N. Hall, Assistant Surgeon, 16th Infantry, 1st Division, NA II 407/427/24242
    p. 99 ‘started running . . .’, Andrew A. Fellner, 112th Combat Engineers, Easy Red, NWWIIM-EC
    tank on Fox Green, NA II 407/427/24034
    ‘What saved us were . . .’, Private Elmer E. Matekintis, 16th Infantry, 1st Division, NA II 407/427/24242
    ‘were crowded . . .’, V Corps, NA II 407/ 427/24235
    p. 100 111th Field Artillery Battalion, NA II 407/427/24034
    08.00 hours, timings taken from log kept by Major Thomas D. Howie, the RCT 116’s S-3, NA II 407/427/24151
    ‘He was catapulted . . .’, NA II 407/427/ 24034
    ‘Old Hatchetface . . .’, J. Robert Slaughter, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, MdC TE 231
    p. 101 ‘We’ve got to get off . . .’, Captain C. N. Hall, Assistant Surgeon, 16th Infantry, 1st Division, NA II 407/427/24242
    ‘The only people . . .’, after action report, Headquarters Company, 16th Infantry, NA II 407/427/24011; confirmed by Major General Albert H. Smith Jr, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘North-east of Colleville . . .’, Ia, 352nd Infanterie-Division to Chief of Staff LXXXIV Corps, 6 June log, FMS B-388
    ‘the gravest immediate threat...’, Gordon A. Harrison, US Army in World War II , Washington, DC, 1951, pp. 320 and 330- 31
    p. 102 ‘from warships on the high seas . . .’, 11.10 hours, 352nd Infantry Division, 6 June log, Bayeux Sector, FMS B-388
    ‘Praise the Lord’, Pfc Harold F. Plank, 2nd Ranger Battalion, WWII VS p. 103 08.19 hours, telephone log, 352nd Infanterie-Division, FMS B-388
    ‘Medico! . . .’, NA II 407/427/24034
    Cota and Canham, NA II 407/427/24235
    p. 104 mortars, Franz Gockel, MdC TE 500, and NA II 407/427/24034
    ‘Boats and vehicles . . .’, V Corps, NA II 407/427/24235
    C Company, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry, NA II 407/427/24034
    C Company losses, Captain Berthie B. Hawks, C Company, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NA II 407/427/ 24242
    p. 105 ‘everyone got ashore safely’, NA II 407/427/24034
    ‘enemy fire was not as bad . . .’, Second Lieutenant George Athanasakos, 2nd Battalion, 116thInfantry, NA II 407/427/24242
    ‘he spouted . . .’, NA II 407/427/24034
    ‘It was just one big mass . . .’, NA II 407/ 427/24241
    ‘They looked like . . .’, NA II 07/427/ 24034
    ‘a stampeded herd . . .’, quoted in Harrison, p. 334
    p. 106 ‘They lit the fuse . . .’, Barnett Hoffner. 6th Engineer Special Brigade, NWWIIM-EC
    destroyers at Omaha, Harrison, p. 322
    ‘the survivors . . .’, Obergefreiter Alfred Sturm, 9. Kp., II Battalion, 726 Inf Rgt, 716 ID, MdC TE 805
    ‘There was a German . . .’, Bradley Holbrook, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘We came across . . .’, Pfc. Charles M. Bulap, 2nd Ranger Battalion, NA II 407/ 427/24241
    p. 107 signaller, John Raaen, 5th Ranger Battalion, WWII VS
    ranger helped up by prisoners, Nicholas Butrico, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘Things look better’, NA II 407/427/ 24235
    ‘struck by the gray . . .’, Gale B. Beccue, 5th Ranger Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘His helmet was off . . .’, Brugger, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
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