D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

Welch, 54th Armored Medical, 3rd Armored Division, WWII VS
    sergeant in 1st Infantry Division, Sergeant Leroy N. Stewart, 26th Infantry Regiment, WWII VS
    ‘French kids . . .’, Vernon W. Tart, 618th Ordinance Ammunition Company, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 296 ‘I know we lack . . .’, J. Le Gal, ‘Un Gendarme à Caumont l’Eventé’, MdC TE 398
    30th Division casualties, NA II 407/427/ 24232 p. 297 ‘I remember going up . . .’, Bradley Holbrook, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 298 ‘Fix bayonets! Twenty-nine, let’s go!’, NA II 407/427/24232
    p. 300 ‘like a sled’ and ‘known simply as “Chief”’, NA II 407/427/24232 p. 302 29th Division, night of 15 July, NA II 407/427/24232
    Interview Colonel Godwin Ordway Jr, Commanding Officer, 115th Infantry, 20 July, NA II 407/427/24034 p. 303 ‘Cota was hit...’, Lieutenant Edward G. Jones, Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, 29th Infantry Division, WWII VS
    25th Cavalry Squadron, Lieutenant Edward G. Jones, Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, 29th Infantry Division, WWII VS
    p. 304 ‘the magnificent American troops . . .’, Montgomery tribute, NA II 407/427/24232
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OPERATION GOODWOOD
    p. 306 ‘I am viewing the prospects . . .’, 14 July, PDDE, p. 2004
    ‘I came upon a line . . .’, Brigadier M. J. P. O’Cock, 2nd Battalion Irish Guards, SWWEC 2003.2287
    p. 307 ‘alternate thrusts’, Stephen A. Hart, Montgomery and ‘Colossal Cracks’ , Westport, Conn., 2000, p. 103
    Crocodile tanks, Kriegstagebuch Panzer Group West/Fifth Panzer Army, BA-MA MSg 2/4831
    ‘There is a nice cool breeze . . .’, Captain S. Beck, MdC TE 570
    9th SS Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen , General Sylvester Stadler, FMS B-470
    ‘the whole length . . .’, Eberhard Beck, 277th Artillerie-Regiment, 277th Infanterie-Division, BA-MA MSg 2/3242
    p. 309 277th Infanterie-Division, Heeresgruppe B, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86
    ‘decisive for the course of the war . . .’, XL 2287, quoted in Ralph Bennett, Ultra in the West , New York: 1979, p. 106
    ‘out of the question’, Heeresgruppe B, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86 ‘The units will fight . . .’, Kurt Meyer,
    Grenadiers , Mechanicsburg, Pa., 2005, p. 270
    p. 310 Frenchwoman at Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery, Simone Grieux-Isabelle, MdC TE 419
    ‘that the Panzer Group . . .’, Kriegstagebuch Panzer Group West/Fifth Panzer Army, BA-MA MSg 2/4831
    p. 311 Operations Goodwood and Atlantic, NA II 407/427/24200
    ‘pre-recorded wireless traffic’, A. D. E. Curtis, R Force, SWWEC 2000.384
    ‘We’ll be moving into top gear!’, N. F. Burrell, 1/7th Queens, 131st Infantry Brigade, 7th Armoured Division, SWWEC LEEWW 2004.2680
    ‘We are undoubtedly . . .’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T2150
    p. 313 ‘a bit of mistletoe . . .’, quoted in Laurence Whistler, The Laughter and the Urn: The Life of Rex Whistler , London, 1985, p. 287
    Tedder and Coningham on Goodwood, Air Publication 3235, Air Ministry, 1955, p. 151, AHB
    p. 314 RAF report on Goodwood bombing, Air Support, Air Publication 3235, Air Ministry, 1955, AHB
    p. 315 ‘like cars crawling . . .’, Whistler, p. 289
    p. 316 ‘Prisoners are streaming in . . .’, Major Peter Griffin, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, NAC/ANC R5067-0-0-E
    ‘a breakthrough appeared unavoidable’, Eberbach, Panzer Group West, FMS B-840
    ‘completely overrun’ and ‘Some tanks had received direct hits . . .’, Heeresgruppe B, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86
    ‘At 10.00 hours . . .’, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/106
    ‘Suddenly a Sherman . . .’, W. H. Close, 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, SWWEC 2002.1713
    p. 317 ‘What happened was incomprehensible . . .’, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/106
    p. 318 ‘death ride’, Alexander McKee, Caen: Anvil of Victory , London, 1965, p. 263
    five Tiger tanks and eight Mark IVs, Generalleutnant Edgar Feuchtinger, FMS B-441
    ‘no more reserves’, Heeresgruppe B, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86; and Kriegstagebuch Panzer Group West, BA-MA MSg 2/4831
    1st SS Panzer-Division at Ifs-Bras, Heeresgruppe B, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86 p. 319 ‘Operations this morning . . .’, quoted in L. F. Ellis, Victory in the West , London, 1962, Vol. I, pp. 344-5
    ‘like children’, Brigadier E. T. Williams, G-2, 21st Army Group, OCMH-FPP
    ‘We were fighting . . .’, Eberbach, Panzer Group West, FMS B-840
    p. 320 ‘The enemy needed only . . .’, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/106
    Hitler Jugend tank losses to fighter-bombers, Tagesmeldungen, Heeresgruppe B, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86
    ‘the British continued to stay immobile . . .’, Eberbach, Panzer Group West, FMS