Major-General Manton S. Eddy (from 19.8.44)
XV. Major-General Wade H. Haislip
XIX. Major-General Charles H. Corlett
XX. Major-General Walton H. Walker
Divisions
Armored: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th; 2nd French Infantry: 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 35th, 79th, 80th, 83rd and 90th
Airborne: 82nd and 101st
APPENDIX 3
Glossary
Ack-Ack [AA]
Anti-aircraft fire
AP
Armour-piercing shells
AT (ATS)
Auxiliary Territorial, in full: the Auxiliary
Territorial Service, now the Women’s Royal Army Corps
AVRE
Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers – a modified Churchill Tank mounted with a Petard short-range mortar
COBRA
American offensive, 25–9 July
COSSAC
Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander
CP
Command Post
CSM
Company Sergeant-Major
DD
Duplex-Drive amphibious tank
DUKW
Duplex-Drive amphibious truck
ENSA
Entertainments National Services Association
EPSOM
British 2nd Army offensive, 26 June
GOODWOOD
British assault on Bourgebus ridge, 18 July
Ia
Chief Staff Officer
LCA
Landing Craft Assault
LCI
Landing Craft Infantry
LCM
Landing Craft Motor Launch
LCT
Landing Craft Tank
LCVP
Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel
LMG
Light Machine Gun
LST
Landing Ship Tank
ML
Motor Launch
NAAFI
Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes
NEPTUNE
Naval phase of Allied invasion of Normandy
ODs
Olive Drabs – American infantry combat clothing
OP
Observation Post
PIAT
British hand-held anti-tank gun
RAC
Royal Armoured Corps
RASC
Royal Army Service Corps
RE
Royal Engineers
SHAEF
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
SP
Self-propelled gun
TOTALIZE
Canadian attack towards Falaise, 8–11 August
APPENDIX 4
Sources and Acknowledgements
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Letters, 1944 (Imperial War Museum)
Anon., Berkshire
Quoted in Over Here by Juliet Garidner, 1992
Arnold, James
Quoted in D-Day by Warren Tute, 1974
Baxter, K.P.
Quoted in D-Day by Warren Tute, 1974
Bellows, J.H.
Normandy Veterans Associations newspaper
Blacker, Stanley
Interview with author, 1993
Bloemertz, Gunther
Heaven Next Stop, 1973
Bone, H.T.
Letter, 1944 (Imperial War Museum)
Bradley, Omar
A Soldier’s Story, 1954
Bullen, R.S.
Quoted in Normandy: Then and Now, 1994
Burgett, Donald
Screaming Eagles, 1962
Burkinshaw, Philip
Alarms and Excursions, 1992
Burton, J.E.
Memoir in D-Day Chronicles by Rupert Curtis (unpub.)
Butcher, H.C.
My Three Years with Eisenhower, 1962
Byrom, James
Unfinished Man, 1957
Coleman, John G.
Letter to author, 1993
Collard, G.
Letter to author, 1993
Coney, Ken
Quoted in Alan Hart (q.v.), diary, 1944
Cooling, J.H.
Letter, 1944 (Imperial War Museum)
Dale, G.E.
Diary, 1944 (Imperial War Museum)
Davies, Peter
Interview with author, 1993
Dawson, Joseph T.
Interview with author, 1993
Edmunds, Islwyn
Letter to author, 1993
Gale, Richard
With the 6th Airborne Division in Normandy, 1948
Gariepy, Leo
Quoted in D-Day by Warren Tute, 1974
Gillies, H.S.
Letter, 1944 (Imperial War Museum)
Goode, F.D.
Unpublished memoir (Imperial War Museum)
Hall, John
A Soldier of the Second World War, 1987
Hart, Alan
Diary, 1944
Hartill, Harry
Letter to author, 1993
Hayden, J.G.
Interview, 1993
Hayn, Friederich
Quoted in Defeat in the West by M. Shulman, 1973
Hemingway, Ernest
By-Line, 1968
Herklotz, Richard
Hewison, W.
Unpublished memoir (Imperial War Museum)
Hodenfield, H.
Stars and Stripes, 1944
Holladay, A.J.
Diary, 1944 (Imperial War Museum)
Houston, R.J.
D-Day to Bastogne, 1991
Hughes, G.E.
Diary, 1944 (Imperial War Museum)
Johnson, Elliott
Quoted in The Good War by Studs Terkel, 1984
Johnson, Johnnie
Wing Leader, 1956
Jones, Gordon
Interview, 1993
Jones, W. Emlyn
Unpublished narrative and interview with author, 1993
Keegan, John
Six Armies in Normandy, 1984
Kellar, H.M.
Unpublished memoir
Kiefer, Philippe
Beret Vert, 1982
Kortenhaus, W.
Interview, 1993
Lelanoy, Odette
Interview, 1993
Leonard, Alfred
Interview with author, 1993
Leveel, M.
Interview, 1993
Macduff, Robert
Taped memoir, 1993
McGregor, Edward W.
Interview, 1993
Macnab, R.C.
Letter, 1944 (Imperial War Museum)
Melville, Alan
First Tide, 1945
Meyer, Kurt
Panzermeyer, 1971
Miles, Leonard
Interview, 1993
Moorehead, Alan
Eclipse, 1975
Morgan, Frederick
Overture to Overlord, 1950
Morgan, Stanley
Interview, 1993
Morris, Ted
Interview, 1993
Osborne, J.V.
Letter to author, 1993
Petrie, Miss
Diary, 1944 (Imperial War Museum)
Poppel, Martin
Heaven & Hell, 1988
Price, Nevin F.
Letter to author, 1993
Prior, Peter
Quoted in Hereford Times, 1974
Pritchard, P.H.B.
Unpublished memoir (Imperial War Museum)
Pyle, Ernie
The G.I.’s War, 1974
Rehm, Mike
Quoted in D-Day, ITN Granada, 1984
Reynaud, H.
Ste Mere Eglise, 1990
Richards, Lewis
Memoir 1944, and official citation
Ridgway, Matt B.
Soldier, 1958
Roach, P.
8.15 to War, 1969
Rommel, Erwin
The Rommel Papers, edited by Basil Liddell-Hart, 1953
Seymour, William
Interview, 1993
Smith, Albert H.
Interview, 1993
Smith, William B.
Letter to author, 1993
Staff Officer, 17
SS Panzer Grenadiers
Quoted in Defeat in the West by M. Shulman, 1973
Stover, Russell
Memoir published in Twenty-Niner Newsletter, the journal of the 29th Division Association
Tateson, T.
Unpublished narrative (Imperial War Museum)
Thomas, Donald
Interview, 1993
Thomas, Richard
Interview, 1993
Thomas, Mary
Interview, 1993
Tilly, G.
Letters, 1944 (Imperial War Museum)
Tout, Ken
Tanks, Advance!, 1989
Townsend, G.G.
Unpublished memoir
Vaughan, Donald
Interview, 1993
de Vigneral, Anne
Diary, 1944 (Imperial War Museum)
Weightman, W.C.
Diary, 1944 (Imperial War Museum)
Wells, C.J.
Interview, 1993
Williams, Alun
Letter to author, 1993
Wright, Ken
Letter, 1944, in D-Day Chronicles by R. Curtis (unpub.)
Young, Peter
Storm from the Sea, 1974
Zimmer, Private
Unpublished diary (Library of Congress)
Addendum to Sources and Acknowledgements, 2013
Anonymous Allied Intelligence Officer, Interrogation of German PoWs, National Archives, DEFE 2/490
Eric Bush, Bless Our Ship, George, Allen & Unwin, 1958
Alan Carter, Imperial War Museum (Sound Archive)
Keith Douglas, ‘Actors waiting in the wings of Europe’, from Keith Douglas: Collected Poems, ed. John Walker, GS Fraser, & JC Hall, Faber 1966
Robert Edlin, quoted in June 6, 1944: The Voices of D-Day, Gerald Astor, St Martins Press, 1994. Copyright © 1994 Gerald Astor
8th Canadian Infantry Brigade, War Diary, National Archives WO179/2886
14th Canadian Field Ambulance, War Diary, National Archives WO179/3370
Dennis Glover, quoted in The War at Sea, ed. John Winton, Hutchinson, 1967
Private William Gray, Imperial War Museum (Sound Archive)
Stanley Hollis, VC Citation, Supplement to the London Gazette, 15 August 1944
Johnnie Johnson, Wing Leader, Chatto & Windus, 1956
Helmuth Lang, quoted in Rommel, Desmond Young, Collins, 1950
Terence Otway, ‘Obituary’, Daily Telegraph, 25 July 2006
Vernon Scannell, ‘Bayonet Training’, Faber Book of War Poetry, ed. Kenneth Baker, Faber, 1997
David Tibbs, Imperial War Museum (Sound Archive)
Chester Wilmot, The Struggle for Europe, Collins, 1952
RM Wingfield, The Only Way Out, Hutchinson, 1955
The author has made every effort to trace the holders of any rights to copyrighted material which appears in this volume, and trusts that his apologies will be accepted for any omissions. Any queries regarding any such rights should be addressed to the author c/o the publisher. The author thanks the following publishers and others for permission to reprint extensively from copyrighted material: Henry Holt for extracts from A Soldier’s Story by Omar Bradley; by H.C. Butcher; Bantam Publishers and Century Hutchinson for extracts from Screaming Eagles by Donald Burgett; Philip Burkinshaw for extracts from Alarms and Excursions; Secker and Warburg Publishers for extracts from 8.15 to War by P. Roach; the estate of Rupert Curtis for extracts from the D-Day Chronicles (unpublished); HarperCollins Publishers for material from By-Line, copyright © 1944 Ernest Hemingway; Sidgwick and Jackson for material from D-Day by Warren Tute; Spellmont Publishing for extracts from Heaven & Hell by Martin Poppel; Hodder and Stoughton for material from Overture to Overlord by Frederick Morgan; Chatto and Windus for material from Unfinished Man by James Byrom.