D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

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    strengthening of Fougères, Headquarters XV Corps, NA II 407/427/24203
    ‘Approximately 13,000 trucks ...’, Mark J. Reardon, Victory at Mortain , Lawrence, Kansas, 2002, p. 39
    ‘withdrawal movements’, 2 August, TNA DEFE 3/65
    p. 401 ‘Joe, I already have it’, J. Lawton Collins, Lightning Joe , Novato, CA, 1994, p. 250
    ‘Some of the troops held themselves well ...’, P. Peschet, MdC TE 215
    p. 403 ‘it seemed like an excellent . . .’, NA II 407/427/24037
    ‘As we arrived there . . .’, Robert B. Bradley, 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, MdC TE 366
    120th Infantry Regiment in Mortain, NA II 407/427/24037
    p. 404 ‘were the greatest obstacles ...’, Generalmajor Freiherr Rudolf von Gersdorff, FMS A-918
    ‘They had been deceived ...’, General Warlimont, ETHINT 1
    ‘passive resistance ...’, Generalleutnant Graf von Schwerin, ETHINT 17
    p. 405 ‘The Führer has ordered ...’, Heeresgruppe B, 6 August, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87
    Hitler’s opposition to General von Funck, General Warlimont, ETHINT 1
    ‘virtually impossible’, Heeresgruppe B, 6 August, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87
    ‘little air activity’, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87 p. 406 ‘The war looks practically over’, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/6431
    ‘a beautiful bivouac . . .’, NA II 407/427/ 6431
    Ultra intercepts, 6 August, TNA DEFE 3/65
    Bradley’s scepticism about Ultra, see Carlo D’Este, Decision in Normandy , New York, 1983, pp. 420-21
    ‘to stop spreading rumours’, NA II 407/ 427/24037
    p. 407 German motorcyclists, Chérencé-le-Roussel, 39th Infantry Division, NA II 407/ 427/24037
    ‘extraordinarily well’, General der Panzertruppen Freiherr von Lüttwitz, FMS A-903
    p. 408 fighting in Saint-Barthélemy, 30th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24037
    120th Infantry in Mortain, NA II 407/ 427/24037
    p. 409 ‘A loud clang followed ...’, Reardon, p. 100
    p. 410 ‘should deal exclusively ...’, 2nd TAF Operations Report by Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, TNA AIR 20/1593
    ‘This is the moment ...’, John Golley, The Day of the Typhoon , Shrewsbury, 2000, p. 129
    pilots in 123 Wing, Desmond Scott, Typhoon Pilot , London, 1982, p. 193
    ‘roughly a four-per-cent chance ...’, Ian Gooderson, Air Power at the Battlefront , London, 1998, p. 76
    p. 411 ‘Diving point ...’, ‘The Rocket Racket’, Air Ministry, AHB
    Typhoon operations, 7 August, TNA AIR 25/704
    ‘Our fighters have been engaged ...’, Telephone Journal, Seventh Army, 7 August, NA II 407/427/6431
    p. 412 ‘ Alles kaputt! ’, Robert B. Bradley, 30th Infantry Division, MdC TE 366
    83 Group, Alfred Price, ‘The Rocket-Firing Typhoons in Normandy’, Royal Air Force Air Power Review , Vol. VIII, I, Spring 2005, pp. 78-88
    ‘As the day developed ...’, 2nd Tactical Air Force Operations Report by Air Marshal Coningham, TNA AIR 20/1593
    Operational Research Section reports: Joint Report No. 3, ‘Rocket-firing Typhoons in Close Support of Military Operations’, Operational Research in North-West Europe, TNA WO 291/1331; and No. 2 ORS, 2nd TAF, Report No.1, ‘Investigations of the Operation of TAF Aircraft in the Mortain Area - 7th August 1944’, TNA AIR 37/61
    p. 413 ‘Whether you realise it or not’, General der Panzertruppen Geyr von Schweppenburg, ETHINT 13
    ‘There is nothing...’, Operational Research Section, ‘Investigation of the Operation of TAF Aircraft in the Mortain Area, 7th August 1944’, dated 7 December 1944, AHB
    field artillery in support of 30th Infantry Division, Brigadier General James M. Lewis, commanding 30th Division Artillery, NA II 407/427/24037
    p. 414 ‘a thorn in the flesh ...’, General der Panzertruppen Walter Krüger, LVIII Panzer Corps, FMS B-445 p. 415 Germans with cognac, Pfc John Cole, 8th Infantry, NA II 407/427/6432
    ‘It was quite clear ...’, comments on Seventh Army war diary, Generalmajor Rudolf Freiherr von Gersdorff, FMS A-918
    p. 416 ‘In formal manner ...’, 30th Division, NA II 407/427/24242
    12th Infantry, NA II 407/427/6431
    p. 417 SS panzergrenadiers using American equipment, Captain Dunbar Whitman, 12th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/ 427/24021
    ‘For the first time ...’, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24021
    ‘The tank he could see ...’, NA II 407/ 427/6432 and Reardon, p. 256
    p. 418 ‘Then he pulled himself to his feet . . .’, 30th Infantry Division, NA II 407/ 427/24038
    ‘There, under that tank . . .’, NA II 407/ 427/24037
    p. 419 air