by Mehlo, Noel
11. Wiley, Major Bell I., PREPARATION OF UNITS FOR OVERSEAS MOVEMENT - Study No. 21, 1946, Historical Section, US Army Ground Forces
CHAPTER 9 – NEW YORK PORT OF EMBARKATION – VOYAGE TO ENGLAND 1. Landeck, Carl and Roger Thorne, The Pennsylvania Railroad During World War II,
2. United States Army In World War II; The Technical Services The Transportation Corps: Movements, Training, And Supply; by: Chesler Wardlow, Center Of Military History, United States Army, Washington, D.C., 1990; Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 55-60003, First Printed 1956- CMH Pub 10-20.
3. Bennett, Sr., Donald, Camp Shanks New York,
4. “New York Port of Embarkation”, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 19 Jun. 2014. Web. 14 Aug. 2014.
5. Frame, Chris, Chris’ Cunard Page,
6. Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, A Seaman's Pocket-Book, London: HMSO, June 1943, This work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain
7. Larkin, James L., 1st Lt, U. S. Army Air Corps, WWII US Military, Glider pilot, 84th Troop Carrier Squadron,
8. “T2 Tanker”, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 3 Apr. 2014. Web. 14 Aug. 2014.
9. “SS Hat Creek”, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 5 May. 2013. Web. 14 Aug. 2014.
10. Sawyer, L.A., and William Harry Mitchell, Victory Ships and Tankers: The History of the "Victory" Type Cargo Ships and of the Tankers Built in the United States of America During World War II, David & Charles , January 24, 1974, ISBN-10: 0715360361
11. Weather Underground,
12. U. S. Department Of Commerce, United States Coast Pilot, Atlantic Coast, Section B, Cape Cod To Sandy Hook, , Coast And Geodetic Survey, Serial No. 627, Fourth (1940) Edition
13. US 6th Naval Beach Battalion; Lee Parker, M.D.,
14. Collins, Fran & Martin Collins, The Friendly Invasion of Leominster, An account of the U.S. Military units billeted around Leominster, Herefordshire, 1943-1945, 2012, Brewin Books, Studley, Warwickshire, UK, ISBN 978-1-85858-493-5, pg 24
15. Gorrell, Robert, THE 54TH REPLACEMENT BATTALION, ETO, 1943-1945,
16. Justin, John, Miller, Victor J. "Baseplate", Sgt., Co. E, 5th Ranger Battalion, U.S.A.
17. Graves, pg 47
18. Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (June 1943) A Seaman's Pocket-Book, London: HMSO; This artistic work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain
19. Disused Stations, 2009,
20. Felix, Richard “Doc”, testimony,
CHAPTER 10 – LEOMINSTER, HEREFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND 1. Collins, Chapter 2
2. Glassman, pg 12
3. University of Portsmouth, A Vision of Britain Through Time, Historical Maps, Ordnance Survey Popular and New Popular Editions, 2009,
4. “New Popular Edition”, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 15 Jul. 2012. Web. 14 Aug. 2014.
CHAPTER 11 – VACATIONING IN SCOTLAND 1. Secret Scotland website, Glen Caladh Harbour,
2. Secret Scotland website, Glen Caladh Castle,
3. Caladh, Glen Caladh, Tighnabruaich, Argyll, PA21 2EH, Property Description, Rightmove Company, UK,
4. Combined Operations Command, United We Conquer, Combined Ops Training Establishments, HMS James Cook,
5. Wilcox, Douglas, Preparations for invasion in Caladh Harbour, blog, Thursday, March 31, 2011,
6. “Combined Operations”, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 30 Sep. 2013. Web. 14 Aug. 2014.
7. Glassman, pg 12
8. Justin, John, Miller, Victor J. "Baseplate", Sgt., Co. E, 5th Ranger Battalion, U.S.A.
9. Graves, pg 47
10. Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC), British Military Hospital (BMH) Cowglen Glasgow, Scotland,
11. Florence, MD, Robert W., Autobiography, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, Legacy of Heroes, 2002,
12. Batens, Alain S., and Ben C. Major, WWII U.S. Medical Research Centre, 50th General Hospital, Unit History,
CHAPTER 12 – U.S. ASSAULT TRAINING CENTRE, BRAUNTON, ENGLAND
1. Hatfield, Thomas M., Rudder, From Leader to Legend, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas, 2011, Chapter 6 2. Schneider, James F, My Father’s War, The Story of Max Ferguson Schneider, A Ranger Commander My Father’s War, The Story of Max Ferguson Schneider, A Ranger Commander 300-78304-6, 2012, pg 77-91
3. “Braunton”, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 3 Aug. 2014. Web. 14 Aug. 2014. 4. “Woolacombe”, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 5 Jul. 2014. Web. 14 Aug. 2014. 5. Bass, Richard T., U.S. ASSAULT TRAINING CENTRE,
289-293
7. Harrison, Gordon A, Cross Channel Attack, United States Army In World War II, The European Theater of Operations, United States
Army Center of Military History, CMH Pub 7-4-1, 1951, pg 191
8. Hathaway, pg 14-20
9. Friends of the Assault Training Center,
11. Glassman, pg 13
12. Prince, Morris, PFC, Co A, 2nd Ranger BN, Overseas, Then Over the Top; The Command And General Staff College Library,
call number: 940.542 P9560, October 21, 1948, Chapter 6
13. Carl Weast file, The Peter Kalikow World War II Collection of the National D-Day Museum Foundation, Inc., located at the
National D-Day Museum, New Orleans.
14. BBC, The Peoples War, Contributed by woolacombegirl, The people of Woolacombe, Article ID: A1969194, 04 November
2003,
CHAPTER 13 – DORCHESTER AND EXERCISE FABIUS I
1. Hatfield, Chapter 6
2. Ruppenthal, Ronald G., U.S. Army in World War II; European Theater of Operations; Volume I, Logistical Support of the Armies: May 1941-September 1944 , United States Army Center of Military History, CMH Pub 7-2-1, 1995, Chapter IX 3. Office Of History Headquarters Third Air Force United States Air Forces In Europe, Installations And USAAF Combat Units
; In The United Kingdom 1942 - 1945, Revised And Expanded Edition , October 1980, pg 39
4. “Warmwell RAF”, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 29 Jul. 2013. Web. 14 Aug. 2014. 5. Frederick, Scott, WWII Escape and Evasion Information Exchange, Daisy in the Sky, November 2010,
1944 to May 1945, Chapter 5: The Ninth Air Force, 1951,
Retrieved 2014-08-16
7. Forty, George, Frontline Dorset: A County at War, 1939-45, Dorset Books, June 1994
8. The National Mapping Programme South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project; English Heritage Project Number 5583; Results of
NMP Mapping; Historic Environment, Cornwall Council; Carolyn Royall; April 2011; Kennall Building, Old County Hall,
Station Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 3AY
9. Prince, Chapter VII
10. Stilley, Rick,5th Armored, The Victory Division, Welcome to 5AD Online!, What a Sausage Camp Might Have Looked Like,
11. Lane, Ronald L., The 2nd United States Ranger Battalion, Rudder’s Rangers, The True Story of the 2nd Ranger Battalion D-Day Combat
Action, Ranger Associates, Inc, Longwood Florida, 1979, pg 60-63
12. Bates, Charles C., Lt. Colonel, U.S. Air Force (Retired), Sea, Swell And Surf Forecasting For D-Day And Beyond, The AngloAmerican Effort, 1943-1945, Unpublished, 2010, pg 12
13. Jones, Lt. Clifford L., The Administrative And Logistical History Of The ETO, Part VI, NEPTUNE: Training, Mounting, The
Artificial Ports, Historical Division, United States Army Forces, European Theater, March 1946, pg 263-274 14. Glassman, pg 13
15. Hathaway, pg 21
16. Schneider, pg 87
17. Brown, James D., and Michael Green, War Stories of D-Day: Operation Overlord: June 6, 1944, Zenith Press, 2009, pg 104
CHAPTER 14 – SWANAGE 1. “Swanage”, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 14 Aug. 2014. Web. 15 Aug. 2014.
2. West, Ian, Dr. and Hampshire Romsey, Geology of the Wessex Coast of Southern England - the World Heritage Jurassic Coast - and more,
3. “Burton Bradstock”, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 7 Jun. 2014. Web. 15 Aug. 2014.
4. BBC, BBC Two Coast Series 8, Episode 5 of 6, Burton Bradstock at War, The Secret Life of Sea Cliffs, first broadcast May 1, 2013
5. Village of Burton Bradstock, Burtonbradstockonline, Burton Bradstock in World War II,
6. West, Ian, Dr. and Hampshire Romsey, Geology of the Wessex Coast of Southern England, Burton Cliff and Burton Bradstock Geology, (Jurassic Bridport Sands, Inferior Oolite, Fullers Earth with Rock falls,
7. West, Ian, Dr. and Hampshire Romsey, Geology of the Wessex Coast of Southern England, Durdle Door, West of Lulworht Cove, Dorset, < http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~imw/durdle.htm>, Retrieved, 2014 07 28
8. Damon, Robert, Handbook to the Geology of Weymouth and the Island of Portland: With Notes, William Clowes and Sons, London, 1884
9. The Climbers Club of Great Britain, Swanage and Portland: Historical,
club.co.uk/downloads/SP_historyA4.pdf>, Retrieved, 2014 07 30
10. West, Ian, Dr. and Hampshire Romsey, Geology of the Wessex Coast of Southern England, Anvil Point to Fisherman’s Ledge to Blackers Hole Cave, near Swanage, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset,
11. West, Ian, Dr. and Hampshire Romsey, Geology of the Wessex Coast of Southern England, Alum Bay, Isle of Wight,
12. Black, Robert W., The Battalion, The Dramatic Story of the 2nd Ranger Battalion in WWII, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2006, pg 72-73
13. Black, Rangers of World War II, pg 181
14. Hatfield, Chapter 6
15. Jamie S, en.wikipedia, Cropped Swanage panorama, 22 August 2009,
16. Hathaway, Chapter 3
17. Lane, pg 64
18. Ketzer, Steve, Jr, Bob Appetite, Ranger !, Descendants of WWII Rangers newsletter, June 2012,
19. Schneider, pg 87
20. Zalooga, Steven J., Rangers Lead the Way: Pointe-du-Hoc D-Day 1944 (Men-at-Arms), Osprey Publishing, December 20, 2011, pg 12-22
21. BBC, WWII Peoples War, An Archive of World War Two memories – written by the public, gathered by the BBC, The Story of a Tioga County Soldier: Studying Morse Code in England (Harold F. Plank),
22. Ambrose, Stephen E., D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II, Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition, April 23, 2013, pg 143
23. Imperial War Museum (IWM), The Way Back; Produced by the A.F.P.U and R.N. Film Section, 1944; Available at:
24. Chief of Combined Operations, Combined Operations Pamphlet No 24, Cliff Assaults, August 1944, United Kingdom
25. Chief of Combined Operations, The Combined Operations Staff Notebook, BR 1293, United Kingdom
CHAPTER 15 – DORCHESTER CAMP D5 AND WEYMOUTH 1. Black, The Battalion, pg 74-76
2. Ruppenthal, pg 366
3. Lane, pg 64-66
4. Kaufmann, J. E. and Kaufmann, H.W., The American GI in Europe in World War II, D-Day: Storming Ashore, 2009, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, ISBN 978-0-8117-0449-6
5. Jones
6. Prince, Chapter 9
7. Hatfield, Chapter 6
8. Hathaway, pg 23-24
9. Justin, John, Miller, Victor J. "Baseplate", Sgt., Co. E, 5th Ranger Battalion, U.S.A.
10. CMH Pub 7-4-1, pg 272
11. Jones
CHAPTER 16 – CRIMSON SKY IN THE MORNING, D-DAY
1. Cornelius Ryan Collection, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, OH , Cornelius Ryan Collection, PFC Max D. Coleman, Box 10, Folder 23.
2. “Vierville Sur Mer”, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 2 Jul. 2014. Web. 15 Aug. 2014.
3. “Normandy”, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 9 Aug. 2014. Web. 15 Aug. 2014.
4. “Calvados”, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 2 Jul. 2014. Web. 15 Aug. 2014.
5. War Department, Historical Division, Omaha Beachhead, 6 June – 13 June, 1944, American Forces in Action Series, September, 1945, GPO, CMH Pub 100-11-1
6. Balkoski, Joseph, Omaha Beach, D-Day, June 6, 1944, Omaha Beach, D-Day, June 6, 1944, 38
7. Isby, David C., The German Army at D-Day, Fighting the Invasion, 2004, Greenhill Books, London, ISBN 1-85367-605-5
8. Milano, Vince and Bruce Conner, NORMANDIEFRONT: D-Day to Saint-Lo Though German Eyes, 2011, The History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, ISBN 978-0-7524-7145-7
9. Coquart, E., and Philippe Huet, Le Jour Le Plus Fou, 6 juin 1944, les civils dans la tourmente, (“The most Crazy Day"), 1994, Albin Michel, ISBN 2226069291 (French)
10. Cornelius Ryan Collection, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, OH, Cornelius Ryan Collection, Belmont, Gail H
, SSG 2A, Box 10, Folder 19.
11. Schneider, pg 84-104
12. Cornelius Ryan Collection, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, OH, Cornelius Ryan Collection, Weast, Carl F., PFC, Box 10, Folder 57.
13. Cornelius Ryan Collection, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, OH, Cornelius Ryan Collection, Snyder, Lt. Jack A., Box 10, Folder 51.
14. Cornelius Ryan Collection, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, OH, Cornelius Ryan Collection, Belmont, Gail H. SSG, 2A, Box 10, Folder 19.
15. Cornelius Ryan Collection, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, OH, Cornelius Ryan Collection, Nelson, Emil Jr., SSG, Box 10, Folder 39.
16. Cornelius Ryan Collection, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, OH, Cornelius Ryan Collection, Cota, Norman D., MG, (Notes of Lt. Shea), Box 6, Folder 15.
17. Cornelius Ryan Collection, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, OH, Cornelius Ryan Collection, Schneider, Max F, Lt Col, Box 10, Folder 49.
18. Schneider, pg 84-104
19. Cornelius Ryan Collection, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, OH, Cornelius Ryan Collection, Schopp, Dan D. T5, Box 10, Folder 50.
20. Cornelius Ryan Collection, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, OH, Cornelius Ryan Collection, Perry, John J, Sgt, Box 10, Folder 40.
21. Cornelius Ryan Collection, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, OH, Cornelius Ryan Collection, Ramney, Burton E, SSG, Box 10, Folder 44.
22. Cornelius Ryan Collection, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, OH, Cornelius Ryan Collection, Chance, Donald L, SSG, Box 10, Folder 22.
23. Carl Weast file, The Peter Kalikow World War II Collection
24. Taylor, Lt. Colonel Charles H., U.S. Army Historical Section Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, War Department Notes, Volumes 1 and 2, November 11, 1944
25. Cornelius Ryan Collection, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, OH, Cornelius Ryan Collection, Hodgson John C, TSgt, Box 10, Folder 30.