D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

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    ‘They’re landing! . . .’, Marianne Daure, MdC TE 48
    evacuation orders, Nadine Speck, MdC TE 2
    ‘Continual telephone calls . . .’, Generalleutnant Speidel, FMS B-718
    p. 127 Blumentritt’s calls, FMS B-284
    p. 128 ‘Once you stop on the beach . . .’, Major George Young, Green Howards, SWWEC T2452
    p. 129 ‘a sort of aquatic turnpike . . .’, Clifford H. Sinnett, USNR, LST 530, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 130 ‘Never in my wildest dreams . . .’, Stanley Christopherson diary
    p. 131 Keller, Mark Zuehlke, Juno Beach , Toronto, 2005, pp. 31-2
    ‘Operation Overboard’, ibid., p. 84; and Papers of Frank A. Osmanski, G-4 SHAEF, USAMHI
    HMS Belfast , Tony Hugill diary, CAC HUGL 1
    Canadian vessels in Overlord, NA II 407/ 427/24200
    p. 132 ‘Nearly every foot . . .’, NA II 407/ 427/24200; and Terry Copp, Fields of Fire , Toronto, 2003, p. 48
    Fort Garry Horse tanks, Sergeant Bill Hudson, A Troop, 48 Royal Marine Commando, MdC TE 84; and Zuehlke, p. 202
    Bernières-sur-Mer, NA II 407/427/ 24200; Zuehlke, p. 219; and Copp, p. 52
    p. 133 ‘But what do you expect? . . .’, Louise Hamelin, MdC TE 222
    ‘I don’t want to see . . .’, J. Kyle, SWWEC T1094
    p. 135 ‘At Carpiquet . . .’, Ultra intercept passed by ‘C’ to Churchill on 11 June, Luftflotte 3, TNA HW 1/2927
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    p. 136 ‘Widgeon and teal . . .’, Tony Hugill diary, CAC HUGL 1
    ‘Floater, 5,000!’, Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T501
    p. 137 ‘Some were scared . . .’, N. G. Marshall, H Troop Armoured Support Group with 41st RM Commando, SWWEC 2000.407
    ‘like a Napoleonic dragoon’, Lieutenant Ken Baxter, 2nd Battalion Middlesex Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, MdC TE 164
    John and Jacqueline Thornton, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘Every now and then . . .’, Tony Hugill diary, CAC HUGL 1
    p. 138 ‘Well, dig yourself . . .’, Lieutenant Cyril Rand, 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles, MdC TE 499
    ‘with misjudged enthusiasm’ and ‘he relented a little’, Lionel Roebuck, 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, MdCTE 199
    Piper Bill Millin piping on the beach, SWWEC T654/666 and K. G. Oakley, IWM 96/22/1
    p. 139 ‘Right, Piper . . .’, Piper Bill Millin, SWWEC T654/666
    3 Troop of 6 Commando, TNA DEFE 2/43; and Philip Biggerton Pritchard, Soldiering in the British Forces in World War II , privately published, undated
    X Troop, Harry Nomburg, NWWIIM-EC, and Peter Masters, NWWIIM-EC
    Kieffer, MdC TE 131
    p. 140 ‘Gentlemen, this is the invasion . . .’, letter from Otto Günsche, 2 October 1981, quoted in Hubert Meyer, The 12th SS , Vol. I, Mechanicsburg, Pa., 2005, p. 97
    ‘a tall wiry . . .’, Milton Shulman, Defeat in the West , London, 1988, pp. 118-19
    p. 141 Château de Bénouville, Louise Moulin, MdC TE 350
    Oppeln-Bronikowski’s change of orders, Generalmajor Wilhelm Richter, 716th Infantry Division, FMS B-621
    Marcks, Seventh Army telephone records captured in August by 1st Polish Armored Division, NA II 407/427/6431
    ‘in no position to judge’ and ‘The main landing ...’, Generalleutnant Bodo Zimmermann, OB West, FMS B-308
    p. 142 ‘fill a crater . . .’, NA II 407/427/ 24170
    p. 143 ‘deep concrete pillboxes . . .’, ‘fought with determination . . .’ and ‘blown out of their emplacements . . .’, Current Reports from Overseas, No. 56, NA II 407/427/ 24170
    p. 144 André Heintz, diary, MdC, TE 32 (1- 4); and Dr Robert Chaperon, MdC TE 42
    p. 145 destruction in Caen, MdC TE 283
    ‘One could see . . .’, Félix Drougard, MdC TE 3
    ‘If only I was a little less fat’, MdC TE 149
    looter, MdC TE 149 p. 146 Défense Passive etc., MdC TE 193
    ‘magnificent attitude . . .’, SIPEG (Service interministériel de protection contres les évènements de guerre) report of 10 June, AN AJ/41/56
    executions in Caen prison, Jean-Baptiste Pierre (Surveillant-Chef Adjoint de la Maison d’Arrêt de Caen), MdC TE 521
    ‘Oh, no! . . .’, ‘pale and evidently terrified’ and ‘The German army is honest’, Madame Blanche Néel, MdC TE 201
    p. 147 ‘With a bestial frenzy . . .’, Nadine Speck MdC TE 2
    ‘useless as well as criminal’, Max Maurin, MdC TE 77 (2)
    800 deaths in Caen, 600 on 6 June and 200 on 7 June, CRHQ
    ‘The town is in flames . . .’, ‘almost destroyed’ and ‘all the gendarmes . . .’, SIPEG report of 10 June, AN AJ/41/56
    p. 148 ‘In Westminster Abbey . . .’, Mollie Panter-Downes, London War Notes , London, 1971, p. 328
    ‘It has been very hard . . .’, Field Marshal Lord