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drop, Reardon, p. 201
    smoke shells, Lieutenant Charles A. Bartz, 230th Field Artillery Battalion, 30th Division, NA II 407/427/24242; and Lieutenant Elmer Rohmiller, 120th Infantry, 30th Division, NA II 407/427/24242
    128th Evacuation Hospital, Colonel John N. Snyder, MdC TE 648
    p. 420 ‘Under cover of this operation ...’, General der Panzertruppen Walter Krüger, LVIII Panzer Corps, FMS B-445
    1st Battalion, 39th Infantry, NA II 407/ 427/24037
    Colonel Birks at Abbaye Blanche, NA II 407/427/24037
    p. 421 ‘I want Mortain demolished ...’, 30th Division G-3 Journal, 11.05 hours, 11 August, quoted in Reardon, p. 267
    ‘incredibly weary troops’, NA II 407/427/ 6431
    ‘the attitude of “silent mutiny” ...’, NA II 407/427/6432
    ‘Kluge did it deliberately ...’, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247
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    p. 422 Crerar as commander in Italy, see Terry Copp and Bill McAndrew, Battle Exhaustion , Montreal, 1990, pp. 66-8
    Montgomery on Crerar and Keller, LCHMA AP/14/27; see also Stephen A. Hart, Montgomery and ‘Colossal Cracks’ , Westport, Conn., 2000
    p. 423 ‘to avenge the death of our comrades’, quoted in Howard Margolian, Conduct Unbecoming , Toronto, 1998, p. 29
    p. 425 ‘Blimey! Square-bashing in tanks’, Ken Tout, Tank! , London, 1985, p. 17
    2nd Canadian Infantry Division in Operation Totalize, report by Canadian Military Headquarters, NA II 407/427/24200
    7th Norfolks crossing the Orne, Lieutenant Colonel Freeland, 7th Battalion Norfolk Regiment, MdC TE 168
    p. 426 ‘The artillery has an awfully easy job ...’, Lieutenant T. T. Ritson, RHA, diary, 6 August
    ‘A magnificent view of the Orne valley . . .’, William Helm, ‘The Normandy Field Diary of a Junior Medical Officer in 210 Field Ambulance’, 177th Brigade, 59th Infantry Division
    ‘Here on the British front ...’, Myles Hildyard diary, 11 August
    ‘During these days ...’, Rev. A. R. C. Leaney, IWM PP/MCR/206
    p. 427 ‘What an honour!’, Hubert Meyer, The 12th SS , Vol. II, Mechanicsburg, Pa., 2005, p. 25
    ‘View Hallo! . . .’, Tout, p. 111
    p. 428 destruction of five Tiger tanks, Hauptsturmführer Dr Wolfgang Rabe, quoted in Meyer, pp. 29-30; see also Stephen A. Hart, ‘The Black Day Unrealised’, in John Buckley (ed.), The Normandy Campaign 1944 , London, 2006
    p. 429 ‘Other aircraft could not . . .’, Major Robert Kiln, Hertfordshire Yeomanry, 86th Field Artillery, SWWEC 99-63
    ‘The American air force ...’, Aitken Hughes diary, 6 General Hospital, WLHUM RAMC 1771
    ‘unfortunate support ...’, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1
    ‘the Sikorski tourists’, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1
    p. 430 ‘becoming very serious . . .’, Heeresgruppe B, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87 p. 431 Generalleutnant Paul Dannhauser, 271st Infantry Division, FMS B-256
    Plessis Grimoult, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T2150 p. 434 intelligence failure over anti-tank defences, Captain A. Potozynski, 10th Polish Mounted Rifles, SWWEC LEEWW 2000.327
    Hitler Jugend claim 192 tanks destroyed, 20.55 hours, Chief of Staff Fifth Panzer Army, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87
    OKW communiqué, BA-MA MSg 2/ 3242
    Hitler Jugend prisoners in Operation Totalize, Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg? , Munich, 2007, p. 165
    p. 433 ‘The forces are so large . . .’, Patton, letter 9 August, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940-1945 , New York, 1974, p. 504
    ‘appropriate the whole of fuel resupply . . .’, General John C. H. Lee, head of Com Z (Communications Zone), OCMH-FPP
    Patton commandeering supply trucks, Harry C. Butcher, Three Years with Eisenhower , London, 1946, p. 550
    60,000 gallons a day, Lieutenant Colonel Eugene Orth, 3rd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24088
    125,000 gallons to move every 100 yards, Captain Cecil Oppenheim, QM, 3rd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24240
    ‘Miss America’, Lieutenant A. W. Loring, 133rd Engineer Combat Command, NA II 407/427/24242
    ‘This is an opportunity ...’, Omar Bradley, A Soldier’s Story , New York, 1951, p. 372
    p. 434 ‘the pay of an entire division’, 2nd Lieutenant A. Dominic Scialla, 735th Tank Battalion, 8 August, NA II 407/427/24242
    5th Infantry Division in Angers, Lieutenant Anthony J. Miketinae, 11th Infantry, 5th Division, NA II 407/427/24241
    ‘The French beat up the collaborators ...’, 2nd Lieutenant Derk van Raalte, 2nd Infantry, 5th Division, NA II 407/427/ 24241
    ‘lost his nerve’, Oberst Erich Helmdach, Ia Seventh Army, FMS