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.’, Karl Hohmann, RAD, MdC TE 506
    ‘any part of the garrison . . .’, Colonel Bernard B. MacMahon, 315th Infantry, 79th Division, NA II 407/427/24242
    p. 219 ‘At eight-thirty . . .’, Lieutenant John R. Blackburn, Sky Control Officer, USS Quincy , NWWIIM-EC
    ‘It was a beautiful...’, Rear Admiral Carleton F. Bryant, USN, Commander Battleship Division 5, MdC TE 173
    p. 220 ‘Immediately we opened fire’, K. Jump, SWWEC T 1823
    armoured bulldozers, Lieutenant Colonel H. A. Delo, 346th Engineers, NA II 407/ 427/24242
    display of strength, Lieutenant Ralph Powell, Cannon Company, 47th Infantry, 9th Division, NA II 407/427/24241
    ‘had drunk enough . . .’, NA II 407/427/ 24242
    p. 221 ‘sound common sense’, Oberstleutnant Keil, FMS C-018
    ‘Final battle for Cherbourg . . .’, Generalleutnant Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben, 709th Infantry Division, FMS B-845
    ‘Some of the boys . . .’, Lieutenant John A. Le Trent, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24242
    ‘We saw a few women snipers . . .’, Sergeant Walter M. Hedrick, 22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24242
    Organisation Todt workers, BA-MA RH 19 iv/132, quoted in Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg? , Munich, 2007, p. 168
    ‘The Teutonic tendency . . .’, Captain Elmer G. Koehler, Battalion surgeon, 12th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/ 427/24242
    p. 220 ‘That was quite . . .’, Clayton Storeby, 326th Airborne Engineer Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘The Germans have left . . .’, Pogue, p. 135
    ‘amassive under ground wine cellar’, Bradley, p. 314
    Hitler and Schlieben, General Warlimont, ETHINT 1
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    p. 223 ‘Field Marshal Rommel is . . .’, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247
    Channel Islands and Nebelwerfer Brigades, General Warlimont, ETHINT 4
    p. 224 ‘Jungle Tiger Tactics’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466
    ‘[Hitler] looked unhealthy . . .’, Speidel, FMS C-017. The description of this meeting is based on the accounts by Speidel, Rundstedt (FMS B-633), Blumentritt, chief of staff OB West (FMS B-284), and Hitler’s Luftwaffe adjutant, Nicolaus von Below ( Als Hitlers Adjutant, 1937-1945 , Mainz, 1980)
    p. 225 withdrawal of six to ten miles and ‘a long auto-suggestive speech’, General der Infanterie Blumentritt, debriefing 6 August 1945, NA II 407/427/24231
    ‘That was the last thing . . .’, Below, p. 375
    ‘everything would depend . . .’, Blumentritt, Chief of Staff OB West, FMS B-284 p. 226 ‘What principally bothers . . .’, Mollie Panter-Downes, London War Notes , London, 1971, pp. 330-31
    ‘eerie howl of sirens’, Cyrus C. Aydlett, USS Bayfield , NWWIIM-EC
    War Cabinet, 16 June, LHCMA Liddell Hart 11/1944/38
    ‘These things . . .’, Wing Commander R. Beamont, SWWEC T537
    p. 227 Director General of Gendarmerie’s report, General Martin, AN AJ/41/56
    ‘with a pathetic wail . . .’, Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries 1939-1945 , London, 2001, p. 562 (27 June)
    Agent ‘Lector’, TNA HW 40/6
    p. 228 ‘Battle is going well . . .’, Montgomery to Churchill, 14 June, TNA PREM 3/339/8
    ‘We formed up . . .’, G. Steer, 1/4th
    King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, SWWEC 2002.1644
    p. 229 ‘There’s no need to tell Ike’, LHCMA, LHP/1/230/22-23a p. 231 ‘The German trick . . .’, Peter Rubie, CWM/MCG 58A 1 40.7
    ‘on turning a corner . . .’, Stanley Christopherson diary
    ‘The order came to us . . .’, G. Steer 1/ 4th King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, SWWEC 2002.1644
    p. 232 Ultra on Panzer Lehr, 27 June, TNA KV 9826
    ‘like strange fungi . . .’, John Keegan, Six Armies in Normandy , London, 1992, p. 174
    ‘were much amused . . .’, Aidan Sprot, Swifter than Eagles , Edinburgh, 1998, p. 120 ‘It’s a vision . . .’, Félix Drougard, MdC TE 3
    p. 233 ‘the enemy which has . . .’, 9th SS Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen , BA-MA MSg 2/4831
    p. 234 ‘ die grosse Chance ’, Kriegstagebuch Panzer Group West, Fifth Panzer Army, BA-MA MSg 2/4831
    Ultra, 29 June, XL 70, see Ralph Bennett, Ultra in the West , New York, 1979, p. 82
    Operation Epsom, one of the best accounts is in Carlo D’Este, Decision in Normandy , New York, 1983
    p. 235 ‘General talked about . . .’, Myles Hildyard diary, 22 June
    ‘the armchair strategists . . .’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466
    p. 236 ‘returned in a vile humour’, Blumentritt, Chief of Staff OB West, FMS B-284
    ‘told him