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41
. Bob Sales, interview with author.
1
. Joseph Balkoski,
Beyond the Beachhead
(Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1989), p. 44.
2
. Ibid., p. 45.
3
. Roy Stevens, interview with author.
4
. David Draper, interview with author.
5
. Information provided by Laura Burnette.
6
. Verona Lipford, interview with author.
7
.
Stars and Stripes
, October 1, 1944.
8
. Quoted from Elva Newcomb’s scrapbook, private collection.
9
. Roy Stevens, interview with author.
10
. Grant Yopp, letter to Anna Mae Stewart. Private correspondence, Anna Mae Stewart.
11
. Allen Huddleston, interview with author.
12
. David Reynolds,
Rich Relations
(London: Phoenix Press, 2000), p. 113.
13
. Ray Nance, interview with author.
14
. See Ewing,
29, Let’s Go!
, and Balkoski
, Beyond the Beachhead
, for excellent character portraits of Cota and Gerhardt.
15
. Bertie Woodford scrapbook. Letter from J. H. Wyse to Captain Fellers, December 3, 1943.
16
. “Stories of Heroes: Virginians At Normandy,” WDBJ7 television station. Broadcast June 1, 1994.
17
. John Barnes,
Fragments of My Life
(self-published, 2000), p. 48.
18
. Hal Baumgarten, interview with author.
19
. Barnes,
Fragments of My Life
, p. 49.
20
. Ibid., p. 49.
21
. Ibid., p. 49.
22
. Hal Baumgarten, interview with author.
23
. Ibid.
24
. Earl Newcomb, interview with author.
25
. Taylor Fellers, letter to his parents, March 17, 1943.
26
. Private correspondence, Bertie Woodford. Also see biographical sketch, provided by Woodford for unpublished book by Ray Nance.
27
. John Barnes, interview with author.
28
. Felix Branham, oral history, The Peter S. Kalikow World War II Archive, The Eisenhower Center for American Studies, University of New Orleans.
29
. Roy Stevens, interview with author.
30
. Felix Branham, oral history, The Peter S. Kalikow World War II Archive.
31
. Ibid.
32
. Gerald Astor,
June 6, 1944
(New York: St Martin’s Press, 1994), p. 89.
33
. Roy Stevens, interview with author.
34
. Rebecca Wingfield, interview with author.
35
. Roy Stevens, interview with author.
36
. Bedford Hoback to Mabel Phelps, January 1944. Letter quoted courtesy of Lucille Hoback Boggess.
37
. Ray Nance, interview with author.
38
. Ibid.
39
. Reynolds,
Rich Relations
, p. 324.
40
. Balkoski,
Beyond the Beachhead
, p. 1.
1
. John Barnes,
Fragments of My Life
(self-published, 2000), p. 51.
2
. Hal Baumgarten, oral history, The Peter S. Kalikow World War II History Archive, The Eisenhower Center for American Studies, University of New Orleans.
3
. Bob Slaughter, interview with author.
4
. Barnes,
Fragments
, p. 53.
5
. Stephen Ambrose,
D-Day
(New York: Touchstone, 1994), p. 45.
6
. Harold Baumgarten,
Eyewitness on Omaha Beach
(self-published, 2000), p. 10.
7
. George Roach, oral history, The Peter S. Kalikow World War II History Archive.
8
. Roy Stevens, interview with author.
9
. Sibyle Kieth Coleman, interview with author.
10
. Earl Newcomb, interview with author.
11
. Sibyle Kieth Coleman, interview with author.
12
. Roy Stevens, interview with author.
13
.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
, June 2, 2002.
14
. Ivylyn Hardy, interview with author.
15
.
Liberty Magazine
, April 1944.
16
. Raymond Hoback, letter to his parents, April 13, 1944.
17
. Ray Nance, interview with author.
18
. Ernest King,
Fleet Admiral
(New York: Lippincott, 1947), p. 621.
19
. Arthur Victor, personal log. Quoted in Nigel Lewis,
Exercise Tiger
(New York: Prentice Hall, 1990), p.65.
20
. Lewis,
Exercise Tiger
, p. 108.
21
. Ibid., p. 109.
22
. Ibid., p. 111.
23
. Ibid., p. 121.
24
. Ibid.
25
. Eisenhower to Marshall, April 29, 1944, Eisenhower Library.
26
. David Reynolds,
Rich Relations
(London: Phoenix Press, 2000), p. 365.
27
. Ibid.
28
. Roy Stevens, interview with author.
29
. Ralph Ingersoll,
Top Secret
(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1946), p. 105.
30
. Ibid.
1
. John Barnes,
Fragments of My Life
(self-published, 2000), p. 57.
2
. Ray Nance, interview with author.
3
. Quoted, Bedford Museum newspaper piece, undated, World War II File.
4
. June 23, 1944, V-mail, Mrs. B. Abbott to Dickie Abbott. Quoted, Lynchburg
News
& Advance
, June 3, 2001.
5
. Lucille Hoback Boggess, interview with author.
6
. “Remembering D-Day,”
Baltimore Sun
, June 6, 1998. Also private correspondence, Ivylyn Hardy.
7
. Ivylyn Hardy, interview with author.
8
. Ibid.
9
. Bertie Woodford, interview with author.
10
. Bill Geroux, “Sacrifice,”
Richmond Times-Dispatch,
May 28, 2000.
11
. Mrs. George P. Parker, Bedford County World War II Committee,
Reports and Correspondence
Concerning Bedford County in World War II, 1943–1945
, April 15, 1944.
12
. Lloyd Ayers and Jesse H. Jones, letter to editor of the
Bedford Bulletin
, March 15, 1944.
13
. Rebecca Wingfield, interview with author.
14
. Geroux, “Sacrifice.”
15
. Parker report, January 15, 1944.
16
. Bertie Woodford scrapbook, private collection.
17
. Elouise Rogers, interview with author.
18
. Bettie Wilkes Hooper speech, Bedford County Museum World War II File.
19
. Parker report, April 15, 1944.
20
. Ibid., February 1, 1944.
21
. Geroux, “Sacrifice.”
22
. Parker report, November 1, 1943.
23
.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
, May 28, 2000.
24
. Hal Baumgarten, interview with author.
25
. Barnes,
Fragments of My Life
, p. 58.
26
. Allen Huddleston, interview with author.
27
. Robert Capa,
Slightly Out of Focus
(New York: Modern Library, 1999), p.134.
28
. Hal Baumgarten, oral history, The Peter S. Kalikow World War II History Archive.
29
. Barnes,
Fragments
, pp. 57–58.
30
. Ronald Drez,
Voices of D-Day
(New Orleans: Louisiana State University Press, 1994), pp. 40–41.
31
. Cornelius Ryan,
The Longest Day
(New York: Touchstone, 1994), pp. 27–28.
32
. Barnes,
Fragments
, p. 55.
33
. Drez,
Voices of D-Day
, pp. 40–41.
34
. Leroy Jennings, oral history, The Peter S. Kalikow World War II History Archive.
35
. William Dillon, oral history, The Peter S. Kalikow World War II History Archive.
36
. Joseph Balkoski,
Beyond the Beachhead
(Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1989), p. 124.
37
. Roy Stevens, interview with author.
38
. Drez,
Voices of D-Day
, pp. 40–41.
39
. Ibid.
40
. Ibid.
41
. Omar Bradley,
A General’s Life
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993), p. 238.
42
. Carlo D’Este,
Eisenhower, A Soldier’s Life
(New York: Henry Holt, 2002), p. 527.
43
. David Reynolds,
Rich Relations
(London: Phoenix Press, 2000), p. 360.
44
. Ibid.
45
. Brooke diary entry for June 5, 1944, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College, London.
46
. Bradley,
A General’s Life
, p. 242.
47
. Balkoski,
Beyond the Beachhead
, p. 62.
48
. Hal Baumgarten, interview with author.
49
. Thomas Valance, oral history, The Peter S. Kalikow World War II History Archive.
50
. Balkoski,
Beyond the Beachhead
, p. 64. See archives, HQ Company, 116th Infantry Regiment.
51
. Ibid.
52
. Bertie Woodford, quoted, “Stories of Heroes,” WDBJ7 television station broadcast June 1, 1994.
53
. Anna Mae Stewart, interview with author.
54
. Earl Newcomb, interview with author.
55
. Ibid.
56
. Roy Stevens, interview with author.
57
. Ibid.
58
. Balkoski,
Beyond the Beachhead,
p. 60.
59
. Carlo D’Este,
Eisenhower, A Soldier’s Life
(New York: Henry Holt, 2002), p. 510.
60
. Barnes,
Fragments of My Life,
p. 60.
1
. Jimmy Green, interview with author.
2
. Ibid.
3
. Ibid.
4
. Ibid.
5
. Dwight Eisenhower,
Crusade in Europe
(New York: Doubleday, 1948), p. 249.
6
. Ibid., p. 250.
7
. Robert Walker, oral history, The Peter S. Kalikow World War II History Archive, The Eisenhower Center for American Studies, University of New Orleans.
8
.
Roanoke Times
, June 4, 1994.
9
. Group Captain James Stagg, Imperial War Museum, Sound Archives, 002910/02.
10
. Carlo D’Este,
Eisenhower, A Soldier’s Life
(New York: Henry Holt, 2002), p. 525.
11
. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Crusade in Europe
(New York: Doubleday, 1948), p. 249.
12
. Joseph Balkoski,
Beyond the Beachhead
(Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1989), p. 6.
13
. Baumgarten,
Eyewitness on Omaha Beach
(self-published, 2000), p. 34.
14
. “Nobody Slept That Night,”
Roanoke Times
, June 4, 1994.
15
. Roy Stevens, interview with author.
16
. Theodore Wilson,
Eisenhower at War
(New York: Random House, 1986), p. 253.
17
. John Barnes, oral history, The Peter S. Kalikow World War II History Archive.
18
. Hal Baumgarten, interview with author.
19
. Betty Wilkes Hooper, interview with author.
20
. Eisenhower Papers, No 1735, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas.
21
. Roy Stevens, interview with author.
22
. Ibid.
23
. Ibid.
24
. Ibid.
25
. John Barnes, interview with author.
26
. Roy Stevens, interview with author.