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Martin Bowman. Remembering D-day: Personal Histories of Everyday Heroes
1 Home Front – Second Front
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Brigadier Tom Collins
US Supply Officer, May 1944
Pilot Officer. R. H. ‘Chad’ Chadwick
Mike Henry DFC
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Major General Francis de Guingand
Jan Caesar, 15
Bill Goodwin
Private Ken McFarlane
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Lance Bombardier Frank Scott, 24
WREN Doris Hayball, 23
Allied Nations Represented On D – Day
Lieutenant Abe Dolim
Vera Lynn
‘Neptune’ Factfile
Civilian George Jackson II
Civilian Mrs J. Charlesworth
Nurse Helen Pavlovsky USN
Civilian P. MoElhlnney
WREN Jean Irvine
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Major Tom Normanton, 27
Phantom Fleets
Ena Howes
BBC 8 a.m. bulletin
New York bulletin
Mary Hoskins, 21
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Lieutenant General. George S. Patton
Winston Churchill
General Feldmarsohall Erwin Rommel
General Feldmarschall von Rundstedt
Adolf Hitler
General Dwight. D. Eisenhower’s
Ron Mailey
Gunner Alfred Sewell
Panzer Leutnant Günter Halm
Andre Heintz, 23
Civilian June Telford
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Jean Lancaster-Rennie
Stan Bruce
Lieutenant Ed Wanner
Ben Smith Jr
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Wilbur Richardson
Harry Barker
Flight Lieutenant Eric ‘Phil’ Phillips DFC MiD
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Flight Sergeant Roland ‘Ginger’ A. Hammersley DFM
Sergeant Johnny Cook, 19
Franklin L. Betz
RAAF and RNZAF Participation
Flying Officer Kazik Budzik KW VM
Manfred Rommel, 15
D – Day Fact File
2 Screaming Eagles and the All Americans. Bernard M. Job, RAFVR
Extract from ‘Currahee!’ by Donald Burgett, 19
American Paratroopers’ Timetable
Don McKeage
Lieutenant Charles Santarsiero
Paras’ Equipment
Pierre Huet
Frenchman Raymond Paris, 20
Private Ken Russell
Chief-corporal Rudolph May
2nd Lieutenant Leon E. Mendel
George Rosie
3 Winged Pegasus. Brigadier S. J. L. Hill
Major General Richard Gale
Brigadier Nigel Poett
Sergeant Edgar Gurney BEM
Red Devils’ Timeline
Order Of Battle
Charles Pearson
Albert Gregory, RAMC
Helmut Romer and Erwin Sauer, both 18
Sergeant Charles Thornton, 27
Sapper Cyril Larkin
First Lieutenant Richard Todd, 23
Chester Wilmot
Merville – The Red Devils’ Greatest Triumph ‘Whoever occupies this field will hold the key to the gateway of France and eventually into Germany itself.’
‘The Hun thinks that only a bloody fool will go there. That’s why we’re going.’
Lieutenant Colonel Otway’s short and sharp official report
Sergeant Percy Reeve
Private Alan Mower
Sniper John Walker
Sergeant Charles Thornton
Sapper Cyril Larkin
4 Bloody Omaha. Franz Rachmann
Flight Lieutenant R. H. G. Weighill,
Lieutenant Commander Joseph H. Gibbons
James Roland Argo
Ben Isgrig
Leading Stoker Henry ‘Buck’ Taylor
US Assault Divisions Omaha Beach
Beach Timetable
US Rangers Assault Pointe-du-Hoc and Pointe de la Percée
Ray Aim, B Company
Ranger Alban Meccia
Sergeant Leonard Lomell
Ben Smith Jr
Tom Bradley
Wilbur Richardson
Henry Tarcza
Private Lee Ratel, 18
Diary entry Lieutenant Abe Dolim
Wing Commander ‘Johnnie’ Johnson DSO, DFC
New Zealand Flight Lieutenant John Houlton
Account by the US War Department’s Historical Division of the 1st Battalion, II6th Regiment
Sergeant John R. Slaughter
Lucille Hoback Boggess
Private Roy Stevens
Sub-lieutenant. George ‘Jimmy’ Green RNVR
Sergeant Thomas Valence
Brigadier General Norman ‘Dutch’ Cota, 51
First Lieutenant P. Clough
Mate Frank R. Feduik, 19
Madelaine Hardy, 15
Lenny Hickman
Reg Lilley
Waverly Woodson, 21
Official report, I6th Infantry
Chaplain Burkhalter’s
5 Utah. Franz Goekel
Log book entries. Flight Lieutenant Tony Cooper
Claude V. Meconis
Allen W. Stephens
US Assault Divisions Utah Beach
Beach Timetable
Lieutenant Robert A. Jacobs
Bob Shaffer
Allan Healy
Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., 57
Carter Barber, American
Jack Culshaw
6 Sword. John Gough,
Beach Timetable
Les ‘Tubby’ Edwards
Mission diary. Ed ‘Cotton’ Appleman
Gunner Len Woods,
Hobart’s Funnies
J. A. C. Hugill
The ‘Jocks’ And The Green Berets Forge Inland. Piper Bill Millin, 21
Bill Mills
Extract from the LSI(H) ‘Maid of Orleans’ ship’s log
Private Bill Bidmead, 20
Piper Bill Millin
Sapper Cyril Larkin
Sergeant Charles Thornton
Private Bill Bidmead
Piper Bill Millin
Order Of Battle Sword Beach. 3rd British Division
Lieutenant John Avis, 27
K. D. Budgen
Private Edward ‘Teddy’ W. D. Beeton, 21
Corporal Walter William Oliver
Platoon Sergeant. Albert Pattison
Captain Douglas Munroe
Trooper ‘Slim’ Wileman, 24
Private Geoffrey Duncan
Troop Sergeant Chris Clancy
Prudent Boiux, 16
Lance Corporal Peter H. Gould
Major Eric A. Cooper-Key MC
Private Nevil Griffin
Private W. Evans
Lieutenant E. G. G. Williams
Stan Bruce
Marine Commando Percy ‘Shock’ Kendrick MM
John McLaughlin
Private T. Platt
Leutnant Herbert Walther, 22
Private Ronald Major, 21
7 Gold. Walt Marshall, 20
Franklin L. Betz
Lieutenant Jim Tuffell
Gold Beach Timetable
Unnamed officer in the Dorsets
Citation, CSM Stan Hollis, Green Howards
Lieutenant Irwin
Ken Mayo
Sergeant Robert ‘Bob’ E. Palmer MM
Major Peter Selerie
Lieutenant H. Foster
Ronald Scott, 20
Leutnant Wolfgang Fischer
Lieutenant John Milton
Lieutenant Basil Heaton
Eric Broadhead
Wing Commander A. H. D. Livock
Private Ken McFarlane
Private Reginald ‘Punch’ Burge
QM Sergeant Robert Fitzgerald
Major R. J. L. Jackson
Private Reg Shickle
Private Dennis Bowen, 18
Bill Davey, 19
Order of Battle Gold Beach
8 Juno. E. J. Thompson
Lieutenant Roy Clark, 33
Sergeant Leo Gariepy
Jim Gadd
Juno Beach Timetable
Malcolm Cook, 19
Unnamed Canadian Officer
Mike Crooks
Order of Battle Juno Beach
Lieutenant Brian Lingwood
R. S. Haig – Brown, 22
Reverend R. M. Hickey
Private Jim Wilkins
A. W. Sadler
Sam Earl
Unnamed Canadian Officer
9 A Foothold On The Continent Of Europe. Winston Churchill
USN Nurse Helen Pavlovsky
Sara Marcum
Marjorie Jefferson, 19
Patricia Gent
Lieutenant Eugene Fletcher
Les Barber
Elizabeth Hillmann
Sapper Harold Merritt
Orv Iverson
Flight Sergeant Roland ‘Ginger’ A. Hammersley DFM
Lieutenant Abel L. Dolim
Les Bulmer
British Mulberry Harbour Project
Seaman G. E. Jacques
Fellow Officer recalling a conversation with Lieutenant Denis J. M. Glover DSC
Antonia Hunt, 14
Mike Henry DFC
Bill Stafford,
The Beachhead Is Won
Pharmacist Mate. Frank R. Feduik, 19
S.S Leutnant Herbert Walther, 22
Stan Bruce
S. Davies
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt
General Montgomery
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Extract from ‘Behind The Lines in Normandy’ by Lieutenant Commander R. D. Franks DSO
A. B. Lol Buxton
Jack Woods
Normandy by Cyril Crain
