D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

Infanterie-Division, Gefreiter Spiekerkötter, BA-MA MSg 2/5526
    p. 505 ‘a noisy and lyrical ...’, Rev. Père Roger Fouquer, Aumônier Divisionnaire, 2ème DB, MdC TE 825
    ‘Victorious, Liberty advanced...’, Madame Talbot, MdC TE133
    entry of American troops, NA II 407/ 427/242351349
    ‘the people bewildered ...’, NA II 407/ 427/24240
    p. 506 ‘French girls, beautiful girls ...’, Alfred Donald Allred, Staff Sergeant, 20th Field Artillery, 4th Infantry Division. NWWIIM-EC
    ‘ Merci! Merci! . . .’, Colonel J. S. Luckett, 12th Infantry, NA II 407/427/6431
    ‘The people of Paris were ...’,NA II 407/ 427/242351349
    p. 507 ‘A vibrant crowd ...’, Jean Galtier-Boissière, Mon journal pendant l’Occupation , Paris, 1944, pp. 275-6
    p. 508 ‘were mixed up ...’, Philippe Boegner, Carnets du Pasteur Boegner , Paris, 1992, p. 287
    ultimatum to Choltitz, SHD-DAT 11 P 218
    ‘Silent also from the effort . . .’, Leutnant Dankwart Graf von Arnim, MdC TE 819 p. 509 ‘After a short, correct conversation’, Leutnant Dankwart, Graf von Arnim, MdC TE 819
    ‘a bearded giant . . .’, Leutnant Dankwart, Graf von Arnim, MdC TE 819
    p. 510 ‘the crowd, often hateful ...’, Rev. Père Fouquer, MdC TE 825
    Choltitz signing the surrender, SHD-DAT 11 P 226
    ‘saved Paris . . .’, NA II 407/427/24235 p. 511 ‘surrendered Paris to V Corps’, NA II 407/427/24235
    Plan Fortitude, TNA WO 199/1379
    Maillé massacre, Fondation de la Résistance, Paris
    ‘terrorists’, SHD-DAT 13 P 42 1
    p. 512 ‘to give the crowd an opportunity ...’, Gefreiter Spiekerkötter, BA-MA MSg 2/5526
    p. 513 ‘But why should we proclaim ...’, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper, Paris after the Liberation, 1944-1949 , London, 1994, p. 56
    2ème DB casualties, SHD-DAT 11 P 218
    2,873 Parisians killed in the month of August, AVP
    ‘ les délices d’une nuit dédiée à Vénus ’, Marc de Possesse, 2e DB, MdC TE 361
    ‘I was providentially removed ...’, Rev. Père Roger Fouquer, Aumônier Divisionnaire, 2ème DB, MdC TE 825
    ‘beer, cider . . .’, BD
    ‘Slowly the tank hatches ...’, John G. Westover, MdC TE 436 (2)
    p. 514 ‘Me, I don’t give a damn . . .’, Marc de Possesse, 2e DB, MdC TE 361
    ‘Direct General Leclerc that ...’, SHD-DAT 11 P 218
    international composition of the 2ème DB, SHD-DAT 11 P 231
    Rol-Tanguy’s headquarters calls for 6,000 FFI, SHD-DAT 13 P 42 1
    ‘members of the National Council of Resistance . . .’, Robert Aron, Histoire de la Libération de la France , Paris, 1959, p. 442
    p. 515 ‘Public order is a matter ...’, Boegner, p. 301, quoted in Beevor and Cooper, p. 63
    ‘an informal visit’, NA II 407/427/24235
    ‘General Gerow, as military ...’, NA II 407/427/24235
    p. 516 ‘ collaboratrice! ’ John G. Westover, MdC TE 436 (2)
    head-shaving on balcony of Mairie, Madame Talbot, MdC TE 133
    ‘We are sickened ...’, Marc de Possesse, 2e DB, MdC TE 361
    20,000 Frenchwomen, Fabrice Virgili, Shorn Women , Oxford, 2002
    ‘As we neared the city ...’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War , Lexington, Kentucky, 2001, p. 174
    p. 517 ‘an American enclave ...’, Simone de Beauvoir, La Force des Choses , Paris, 1960, p. 29
    ‘Pig Alley’ and drunken soldiers in the Place Vendôme, Pogue, pp. 229-30
    allocation of penicillin, Major General Kenner, SHAEF, OCMH-FPP
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    p. 519 ‘I saw Frenchmen in the streets ...’, Major L. J. Massey, MdC TE 167
    De Gaulle’s visit and minister for reconstruction, William I. Hitchcock, Liberation , London, 2008, p. 57
    p. 520 76,000 people had lost their homes, TNA WO 219/3728, quoted in Hitchcock, p. 44
    ‘There are those who . . .’, Madame Ruet, Montebourg, MdC TE 63
    p. 521 ‘ camaraderie du malheur ’, MdC TE 149
    Saingt family at Fleury, Georges Hebert, MdC TE 12
    ‘ discipline exemplaire ’, Bernard Goupil, MdC TE 191
    195th Field Ambulance near Honfleur, J. C. Watts, Surgeon at War , London, 1955, p. 110
    p. 522 ‘Civil life will be mighty dull’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940- 1945 , New York, 1974, p. 521
    ‘It is astonishing ...’, 21 June, Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries 1939-1945 , London, 2001, p. 561
    p. 523 ‘First of all he’s a psychopath ...’, Cornelius Ryan papers, Ohio University Library Department of Archives and Special Collections, quoted in The Times , 9 November 2007

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