D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

(ed.), p. 490
    ‘Because of heavy losses . . .’, TNA DEFE 3/ 63
    ‘a rather confused situation’, General der Panzertruppen Freiherr von Lüttwitz, 2nd Panzer-Division, FMS A-903
    ‘the din of shell-fire . . .’, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923
    p. 355 ‘from staff to staff . . .’, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923
    p. 356 ‘just rushed on through’, Lieutenant George O. Grant, 69th Tank Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24241
    Collins’s criticism of 3rd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24235
    p. 357 6th Armored Division on 28 July, 69th Tank Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24241
    ‘no forces fit for battle’ and ‘neither light nor medium . . .’, 28 July, TNA DEFE 3/ 63
    ‘used to fire point-blank . . .’, VII Corps, NA II 407/427/24235
    ‘For five days . . .’, SanUffz Walter Klein, Kampfgruppe Heintz, FMS A-910
    ‘when other elements . . .’, Lieutenant James J. Williams, 47th Infantry, 9th Division, NA II 407/427/24241
    tension between SS and paratroops, Oberstleutnant Friedrich Freiherr von der Heydte, 6th Paratroop Regiment, FMS B-839
    p. 358 the sacking of Generalmajor Pemsel, Generalmajor Freiherr von Gersdorff, Chief of Staff Seventh Army, FMS A-894
    p. 359 ‘on the road all night’ and ‘that they did it . . .’, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/ 427/6431
    ‘a knocked out enemy vehicle standing . . .’, NA II 407/427/24021
    ‘only one-way traffic . . .’, Major William A. Castille, Combat Command B, 3rd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24088
    ‘Hell, with in a couple of days . . .’, William M. King, 44th Armored Infantry Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/ 24241
    ‘they crapped in them and cooked in them’, Captain Thomas P. Jacobs, MD, 45th Armored Medical Battalion, 3rd Armored Division, WWII VS
    2nd Panzer-Division on 29 July, General der Panzertruppen Freiherr von Lüttwitz, FMS A-903
    p. 360 Captain Reid and Private Sharkey, 22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24021
    p. 361 Moyon engagement, Combat Command Rose, NA II 407/427/24021
    82nd Reconnaissance Battalion, Major Willis T. Smith, 67th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/ 24242
    p. 362 ‘by single rifle shots . . .’, Lieutenant Colonel Briard P. Johnson, Executive Officer of Combat Command B, 2nd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24082
    Sergeant Bishop and ‘Action during the fight . . .’, Lieutenant Colonel Harry Hilliard, 3rd Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment, NA II 407/427/24082
    ‘their vehicles down the hill . . .’, NA II 407/427/24082
    ‘Even the use . . .’, Lieutenant Colonel Marshall L. Crowley, 41st Armored Infantry Regiment, 2nd Armored Division, 22 September, NA II 407/427/24082
    p. 363 ‘The mortars set the vehicles . . .’, Lieutenant Colonel John D. Wynne, 2nd Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment, NA II 407/427/24082
    ‘Then the organized slaughter . . .’, Captain James R. McCartney, 67th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24082
    ‘as day light broke . . .’, Lieutenant Colonel John D. Wynne, 2nd Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment, NA II 407/427/24082
    Death of Generalleutnant Kraiss, Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg? , Munich, 2007, p. 548
    p. 364 ‘The whole area . . .’ and ‘prisoners were coming . . .’, NA II 407/427/24082
    ‘German equipment, abandoned...’, General Doyle O. Hickey, Combat Command A, 3rd Armored Division, NA II 407/ 427/24088
    ‘Carnage gruesome . . .’, diary of Captain Thomas P. Jacobs, MD, 45th Armored Medical Battalion, 3rd Armored Division, WWII VS
    Generalmajor Freiherr von Gersdorff, Chief of Staff Seventh Army, FMS A-894
    demolitions and looting in Granville, Commissariat de Police de Granville, AdM 1370 W 1
    p. 365 ‘urgent orders to prevent . . .’, General Warlimont, ETHINT 1
    ‘Pour it to them!’, Lieutenant Sancken, 4th Reconnaissance Troop, NA II 407/427/ 6431
    ‘The thing to do . . .’, Blumenson (ed.), p. 491
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    p. 366 ‘I have ordered Dempsey . . .’, quoted in Carlo D’Este, Decision in Normandy , New York, 1983, p. 422
    ‘grinds to a halt . . .’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T2150
    ‘Monty is determined to make us . . .’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T2150
    p. 367 ‘The crews were shaken . . .’, Ian Daglish, ‘Operation Bluecoat’, in John Buckley (ed.), The Normandy Campaign 1944 ,