D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

WWII VS
    ‘couldn’t trust them in Normandy’, Pfc Robert Boyce, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, WWII VS
    ‘we saw in the ditches . . .’, Barnett Hoffner, 6th Engineer Special Brigade, NWWIIM-EC
    Sgt Prybowski, Captain Elmer G. Koehler, Battalion Surgeon, 12th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24242
    p. 162 Hill 30, Tomaso William Porcella, 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division; and Kenneth J. Merritt, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘There were so many . . .’, Edward C. Boccafogli, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
    90th Division firing at prisoners, Max Hastings, Overlord , London, 1989, p. 154
    p. 163 ‘He was sitting out . . .’, Pogue, pp. 111-12
    ‘Collins and Bradley . . .’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940-1945 , New York, 1974, p. 479
    the ‘Treuelied’, Jean-Claude Perrigault and Rolf Meister, Götz von Berlichingen , Bayeux, 2005, p. 77
    ‘Well, we don’t know . . .’, SS-Mann Johann H., 36 380 D =3.Kp./SS-Pi.Btl.17 17.SS-Pz.Gren.Div. 8 June, BfZ-SS
    p. 164 ‘Turn round!’, Perrigault and Meister, p. 203
    ‘and push the enemy . . .’, Generalleutnant Richard Schimpf, 3rd Paratroop Division, FMS B-020
    p. 165 ‘insufficient forces’, Generalmajor Max Pemsel commentary, FMS B-541
    353rd Infanterie-Division, General Mahlmann, FMS A-983
    hiding in barns and orchards, AdM 2 J 695
    ‘nocturnal game...’, Generalleutnant Kurt Badinski 276th Infanterie-Division, FMS B-526
    SS Das Reich in France, Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg? , Munich, 2007, p. 361
    p. 166 ‘the initiation of . . .’, IMT, Vol. XXXVII, quoted in Lieb, p. 364
    For these and other killings, see Lieb, pp. 374-5 and AN AJ/41/56. According to one report, 108 were hanged in Tulle, AN AJ/41/56
    Oradour, M. R. D. Foot, SOE in France , London, 1966, pp. 398-9
    ‘regions where a hideous . . .’, AN AJ/ 41/56
    p. 167 ‘spray jobs’, Technical Sergeant Donald J. Walworth, 3rd Battalion, 26th Infantry, 1stDivision,NA II 407/427/24242
    ‘were in fact facing . . .’, Gordon A. Harrison, US Army in World War II , Washington, DC, 1951 p. 370
    p. 168 ‘You people are always . . .’, Oberstleutnant Keil, FMS C-018
    ‘sly, underhand...’, Perrigault and Meister, p. 245
    ‘moderately high losses’, ibid., p. 247
    p. 169 accusation against Heydte, FMS B-839; and Perrigault and Meister, p. 248
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FAILURE AT CAEN
    p. 170 ‘communications between division . . .’, Generalmajor Wilhelm Richter, 716th Infanterie-Division, FMS B-621
    ‘honeycombed with trenches, NA II 407/ 427/24200
    p. 171 ‘under his command . . .’, TNA WO 208/4363
    1st SS Panzer-Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler , Taganrog, Sönke Neitzel (ed.), Tapping Hitler’s Generals , St Paul, Mn, 2007, p. 344, n. 93
    p. 172 ‘It has taken . . .’, Generalmajor Wilhelm Richter, 716th Infanterie-Division, FMS B-621
    ‘Little fish!’, Shulman interview with Generalleutnant Edgar Feuchtinger, August 1945, Milton Shulman, Defeat in the West , London, 1988, p. 121
    ‘At a moment when . . .’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466
    p. 173 ‘Fright reports’, Generalmajor Fritz Krämer, I SS Panzer Corps, FMS C-024
    p. 174 ‘Action rear’, etc., Alastair Bannerman, 2nd Battalion Royal Warwicks, SWWEC 2001-819
    Gruchy, Raymond Pouchin, MdC TE 86
    Hitler Jugend in Cambes, Lieutenant, Cyril Rand, 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles, MdC TE 499
    p. 175 ‘We were the first troops . . .’ and ‘After a very short time . . .’, Stanley Christopherson diary
    p. 176 ‘fighter-bomber racecourse’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
    Panzer Lehr losses, see H. Ritgen, Die Geschichte der Panzer-Lehr Division im Westen, 1944-1945 , Stuttgart, 1979, p. 100, quoted in Niklas Zetterling, Normandy 1944 , Winnipeg, 2000, p. 386
    p. 177 ‘How can I live . . .’, ‘Aristocrats’, Keith Douglas, The Complete Poems , London, 2000, p. 117
    ‘I like you, sir’, Stuart Hills, By Tank into Normandy , London, 2002, p. 54
    p. 178 ‘missed the psychological moment . . .’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466
    ‘Last time I was . . .’, Lieutenant Cyril Rand, 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles, MdC TE 499
    p. 179 ‘When I looked to the left . . .’, Unterscharführer Alois Morawetz, 3. Panzerkompanie, SS Panzer-Regiment 12, Hubert Meyer, The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer