D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

Zimmermann, OB West, FMS B-308
    ‘might well be the proverbial . . .’, Duff Hart-Davis (ed.), King’s Counsellor , London, 2006, p. 245
    ‘Explanation of Continued German Resistance’, 8 September 1944, LHCMA Alanbrooke 6/1/5
    p. 339 ‘an idiotic idea’, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247
    ‘falsification of the enemy situation’, Hubert Meyer, The 12th SS , Vol. I, Mechanicsburg Pa., 2005, p. 36
    ‘daily reports which even . . .’, General Bülowius, II Flieger Corps, FMS B-620
    p. 340 ‘had a really good relationship . . .’, Günter Peuckert, 272th Infanterie-Division, BA-MA MSg 2/5424
    ‘ malgré-nous ’, Nicolas Fank, 116th Panzer-Division, MdC TE 531
    ‘No, no. I play no tricks . . .’, Aitken, Medical Officer, 24th Lancers, WLHUM RAMC 1668
    p. 341 ‘If somebody betrays . . .’, 1944, BA-MA RH 21-5/50, quoted in Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg? , Munich, 2007, p. 439
    US Army report on German prisoners in Normandy, NA II 407/427/24242
    ‘ Kameradenerziehung ’, Eugène Finance, MdC TE 331
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OPERATION COBRA - BREAKTHROUGH
    p. 342 German radio intercepts, Oberstleutnant Ziegelmann, 352nd Infanterie-Division, FMS B-455
    ‘One unit surrendered . . .’, NA II 407/ 427/24242
    ‘a battalion of the 90th . . .’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940- 1945 , New York, 1974, p. 486
    p. 343 ‘War is about 90% waiting . . .’, diary of Captain Jack H. Welch, 54th Armored Medical, 3rd Armored Division, WWII VS
    p. 345 ‘The observers hung around . . .’, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/6431
    ‘the peculiar rustling in the sky’, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/6431
    bombing casualties on 24 July, NA II 407/ 427/24245
    ‘The flamboyant, red-headed...’, Colonel Kraminov, MdC TE 246
    ‘stiffened perceptibly’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War , Lexington, Kentucky, 2001, pp. 167-8
    p. 346 Soviet complaint about reports of former Red Army soldiers fighting for the Germans, see Eisenhower letters 26 and 27 July, PDDE, pp. 2031 and 2032
    ‘Fourteenth US Army’, TNA HW 40/6
    accident with bayonets, Robert B. Bradley, 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, MdC TE 366
    p. 347 ‘the faces of the dead . . .’, Robert B. Bradley, MdC TE 366
    ‘Many of them only . . .’, NA II 407/427/ 24245
    ‘all men and officers who were under the bombing . . .’, NA II 407/427/6431
    p. 348 Kluge and Operation Spring, Oberstgruppenführer Paul Hausser, Seventh Army, ETHINT 48
    ‘The whole place . . .’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
    transfer of German panzer divisions to American sector, Omar Bradley, A Soldier’s Story , New York, 1951, p. 341
    ‘the drawing off of German panzers . . .’, Colonel Thomas Bigland, liaison officer with First US Army, then 12th Army Group, SWWEC 99-10
    Panzer Lehr losses, ETHINT 66, then FMS A-903
    p. 349 ‘many of . . .’, diary of Captain Jack H. Welch, 54th Armored Medical, 3rd Armored Division, WWII VS
    ‘At the end of this great bombing . . .’, NA II 407/427/24242
    ‘The rest huddled in a corner . . .’, Lieutenant Clyde Eddinger, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24021
    ‘The resultfor the firstday . . .’, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24021
    p. 350 ‘The effectiveness of the bombardment . . .’, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/ 427/6431
    ‘quite a collection . . .’, Lieutenant Donald Dickinson, Company B, 22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24021
    p. 351 ‘a lot of looting’, Lieutenant John B. Derden, 66th Armored Regiment, WWII VS
    ‘The number of kill-lusty people . . .’, Captain Jim R. Burt, 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division, WWII VS
    ‘Private De Castro . . .,’ E Company, 22nd Infantry, NA II 407/427/24021
    p. 352 Montreuil-sur-Lozon, Brigadier General Doyle O. Hickey, Combat Command A, 3rd Armored Division, NA II 407/ 427/24088
    ‘overhead like hawks...’, General Schmidt, 275th Infanterie-Division, FMS A-973
    ‘friendly tanks’ and ‘an old soldier . . .’, NA II 407/427/6431
    ‘We were riding along . . .’, Lieutenant George O. Grant, 69th Tank Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24241
    p. 353 ‘good clothes’, Blumenson (ed.), p. 489
    ‘I tell you one thing, Sani . . .’, SanUffz Walter Klein, Kampfgruppe Heintz, FMS A-910
    p. 354 Browning and air drop on Avranches, Wing Commander Scarman, Tedder’s aide, OCMH-FPP
    ‘Felt much happier over the war . . .’, Blumenson