D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

‘who was calmly . . .’, NA II 407/ 427/24034
    ‘individually they were . . .’, NA II 407/ 427/24034
    ‘Those jagged sharp bones . . .’, Herbert Zafft, 29th Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘As I drew near him . . .’, Colin H. Mc-Laurin, 115th Infantry, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘Smoke, dust from . . .’, NA II 407/427/ 24034
    French civilians in Vierville, Howie journal, NA II 407/427/24151
    p. 109 Cota and Vierville exit, NA II 407/ 427/24034
    landed 18,772 men, NA II 407/427/24235
    p. 110 ‘wounded can no longer . . .’, telephone log, 352. I.D., 17.10 hours, FMS B-388
    identifying the presence of the 352nd Infanterie-Division, letter from Captain Fred Gercke, 27 June, NA II 407/427/24011
    smell of burnt flesh, Roy Arnn, 146th Combat Engineer Battalion attached to 1st Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘I saw one young soldier . . .’, Captain Benjamin A. Payson, 60th Medical Battalion, MdC TE 291
    p. 111 treatment on Omaha, Lieutenant (MC) Alfred A. Schiller, USN, CWM/ MCG 58A
    ‘What am I going to do? . . .’, Frank Feduik, pharmacist on LST, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘left alone to whatever . . .’, Vincent J. del Giudice, pharmacist, USS Bayfield , NWWIIM-EC
    p. 112 Gerow landing, NA II 407/427/ 24235
    29th Infantry Division command post, NA II 407/427/24034
    ‘assumed that everyone . . .’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War , Lexington, Kentucky, 2001, p. 83
    Casualty figures, see Harrison, p. 330; and NA II 407/427/5919
    ‘He knew better . . .’, George Roach, Company A, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, NWWIIM-EC
    Bedford casualties, see James W. Morrison, Bedford Goes to War: The Heroic Story of a Small Virginia Community in World War II , Lynchburg, Va., 2006; and George D. Salaita, ‘Embellishing Omaha Beach’, Journal of Military History , April 2008, pp. 531-4
    p. 113 German losses on the eastern front and in Normandy, Niklas Zetterling, Normandy 1944 , Winnipeg, 2000, p. 434
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UTAH AND THE AIRBORNE
    p. 114 German soldiers and American containers, Rainer Hartmetz, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘The war game has . . .’, Generalleutnant Karl-Wilhelm Graf von Schlieben, 709th Infanterie-Division, FMS B-845
    p. 115 ‘American prisoners with . . .’, Montebourg, Fernand Louvoy, MdC TE 38
    ‘A soldier had his leg . . .’, Brigadier General David E. Thomas, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 116 Château de Hauteville, Briand N. Beaudin, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
    discovery of ford, NA II 407/427/ 24206
    p. 118 ‘odd-shaped sea-monsters . . .’, Howard van der Beek, USS LCC 60a, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘met General Roosevelt . . .’, NA II 407/ 427/24204
    ‘more like guerrilla fighting’, NA II 407/ 427/24242
    ‘Captain, how in the hell...’, Folder Birra, Alfred F., DDEL
    p. 119 ‘walked their fire . . .’, NA II 407/ 427/24240
    ‘they could not be trusted’, John Capell, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘duringthebriefings . . .’,NA II 407/427/ 24242
    Le Molay, Danièle Höfler, MdC, TE 71
    patrols over south-western approaches, R. L. Delashaw, 405th Fighter Group, USAAC, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 120 ‘ Achtung! Minen! ’, John L. Ahearn, 70th Tank Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
    20th Field Artillery, 4th Infantry Division, Staff Sergeant Alfred Donald Allred, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘French people, of course . . .’, William E. Jones, 4th Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 121 ‘came across a little . . .’, Captain Carroll W. Wright, 33rd Chemical Company, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘a German soldier lying dead . . .’, John A. Beck, 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion with 4th Infantry Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘We had to kill most . . .’, Lieutenant John A. Le Trent, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24242
    p. 122 ‘There isn’t much left . . .’, R. R. Hughart, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
    325th Glider Infantry Regiment, NA II 407/427/24206
    p. 123 ‘They look as though they’re from Sing Sing’, Heinz Puschmann, 6th Paratroop Regiment, private account
    ‘as if it were a movie . . .’, Jean Roger, Saint-Lô, MdC TE 316
    ‘Windows and doors . . .’, MdC TE 285 p. 124 escape into the countryside, Michèle Chapron, MdC TE 278
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GOLD AND JUNO
    p. 125 ‘Is this the landing?’, André Heintz diary, MdC TE 32 (1-4)
    ‘Do you think . . .’, MdC TE 149
    ‘Yes, it is indeed . . .’, Marianne Daure, MdC TE 48
    p. 126 boulangeries in Caen, Marcel Ehly, MdC TE 11
    Germans ‘requisitioning’ alcohol, Madeleine Betts-Quintaine, MdC TE