Forgotten Voices of D-Day

by Forgotten Voices of D-Day- A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There (retail) (epub)

  Arun(i)

  Ashton, Lance Sergeant Jim(i)

  assault bridges(i), (ii)

  Assault Vehicles Royal Engineers (AVREs)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)

  Churchills(i), (ii)

  Atkinson, ‘Bonzo’(i)

  Atlantic(i), (ii)

  Atlantic Wall(i), (ii), (iii)

  Avro Lancaster bombers(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  B-24 Liberators(i)

  Bailey, Corporal Jack(i)

  Ball, Reg(i)

  Bangalore torpedoes(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Bayeux(i), (ii)

  push for(i)

  see also Caen-Bayeux road

  Beaufighters(i), (ii)

  Belfast (cruiser)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Belgium(i)

  Bennett, ‘Wiggy’(i)

  Benouville(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Benouville/Caen Canal Bridge (Pegasus Bridge)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Berlin(i), (ii)

  Bernières(i)

  Berrigan, Colonel Paul(i)

  Besa machine guns(i)

  Bettle, Vic(i)

  Bevin, Ernest(i)

  Bigoted (codename)(i)

  Bletchley Park(i)

  Blythe, Sergeant Bill(i), (ii)

  Bofors guns(i)

  Boland, Staff Sergeant Oliver(i)

  Booth, Sergeant(i)

  Bournemouth(i)

  Bovis(i)

  Brace, Sergeant(i)

  Bradley, General Omar N.(i)

  briefing(i)

  British Army

  rivalry with US troops(i)

  Corps

  Airborne Corps(i)

  Intelligence Corps(i)

  Pioneer Corps(i), (ii)

  Royal Armoured Corps(i)

  Royal Army Medical Corps(i), (ii), (iii)

  Royal Army Service Corps(i), (ii),(iii)

  282nd Company(i), (ii), (iii)

  288th Company(i)

  101st General Transport Company(i)

  Royal Corps of Signals(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Royal Engineers(i), (ii),(iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv)

  26th Assault Squadron(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  73rd Field Company(i), (ii), (iii)

  85th Field Company(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  249 Field Company(i), (ii)

  3rd Parachute Squadron(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Tank Corps(i)

  Divisions

  6th Airborne(i),(ii) (iii), (iv), (v),(vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi),(xii), (xiii)

  79th Armoured(i), (ii), 216(iii)th (Northumbrian)

  Infantry(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  51st (Highland) Infantry(i)

  3rd Infantry(i), (ii)

  Brigades

  6th Airlanding(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  27th Armoured(i)

  69th Infantry(i)

  231st Infantry(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  3rd Parachute(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  5th Parachute(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  1st Special Service(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  Regiments, Battalions and Batteries

  3rd Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery (Royal Artillery)(i), (ii)

  73rd Anti-Tank Regiment (Royal Artillery)(i), (ii), (iii)

  Border Regiment,(i)th Bn(ii), (iii)

  Cheshire Regiment,(i)nd Bn(ii), (iii), (iv)

  Devonshire Regiment,(i)nd Bn(ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Dorsetshire Regiment 246(i)st Bn(ii)

  22nd Dragoons(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Durham Light Infantry

  6th Bn(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  8th Bn(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  9th Bn(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  East Riding Yeomanry(i)

  East Yorkshire Regiment(i), (ii), (iii)

  2nd Bn(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix),(x)

  5th Bn(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)

  Essex Regiment 176(i)nd Bn(ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  33rd Field Regiment (Royal Artillery)(i), (ii)

  86th Field Regiment (Royal Artillery)(i), (ii), (iii)

  147th Field Regiment (Essex Yeomanry) (Royal Artillery)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  12th Field Training Regiment (Royal Artillery)(i)

  Glider Pilot Regiment(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv)

  Gloucestershire Regiment,(i)nd Bn(ii), (iii), (iv)

  Green Howards(i), 246(ii)th Bn(iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)(ix)th Bn(x),(xi)

  Hertfordshire Regiment,(i)nd Bn(ii), (iii), (iv)

  Hussars,(i)th/18th(ii), (iii), (iv), (v) (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv)

  King’s (Liverpool Regiment), Liverpool Irish (8th Bn)(i)

  King’s Own Scottish Borderers,(i)st Bn(ii),(iii)

  112th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment (Royal Artillery)(i), (ii)

  Lincolnshire Regiment,(i)nd Bn(ii), (iii)

  London Scottish(i)

  Northamptonshire Yeomanry,(i)nd Bn(ii)

  Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry(i), (ii)

  2nd Bn(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi),(vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii)

  Parachute Regiment(i)th Bn(ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)

  8th Bn(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  9th Bn(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv),(xv)

  12th Bn(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii) 146–7,(viii), (ix), (x)

  13th Bn(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii)

  22nd Independent Parachute Company(i), (ii)

  Queen’s Royal Regiment,(i)st/5th Bn(ii)

  141st Regiment (Royal Armoured Corps)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Royal Berkshire Regiment,(i)th Bn(ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii)

  4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Royal Hampshire Regiment(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  1st Bn(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv)

  5th Royal Tank Regiment(i)

  Royal Ulster Rifles 71(i)st Bn(ii), (iii)

  Royal Warwickshire Regiment(i)

  2nd Bn(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  South Lancashire Regiment(i), (ii), (iii)

  1st Bn(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Staffordshire Yeomanry(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Suffolk Regiment,(i)st Bn(ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Westminster Dragoons(i)

  Commandos(i),(ii), (iii) 325 3 Commando(iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  4 Commando(i), (ii), (iii) (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)(viii)

  6 Commando(i)

  Miscellaneous Units

  195 Airlanding Field Ambulance(i)

  224 Parachute Field Ambulance(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Army Film and Photographic Unit(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)(i)

  Brize Norton(i)

  Brotheridge, Lieutenant Den (Danny)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Brutus (double agent)(i)

  Bullock, Sergeant(i)

  Bulolo (Royal Navy Flag Ship)(i), (ii)

  Burbury, Colonel(i), (ii)

  Bures(i)

  Caen(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi) 356 drive on(vii), (viii), (ix)

  Caen Canal(i), (ii)

  Caen Canal bridge see Benouville/Caen Canal Bridge (Pegasus Bridge)

  Caen-Bayeux road(i), (ii)

  Calais(i)

  Cambridge(i)<
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  camps(i), (ii)

  Canadian Army

  Corps, Royal Canadian Engineers 233 Divisions

  3rd Canadian Infantry(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  Brigades,(i)th Canadian Infantry(ii)

  Regiments and Battalions Chaudière Regiment(i), (ii)

  1st Hussars of Canada(i), (ii)

  North Shore Regiment(i), (ii)–1,(iii)

  Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada(i), (ii), (iii)

  Regina Rifles(i), (ii)

  Royal Winnipeg Rifles(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Carr, Lieutenant(i)

  carrier pigeons(i)

  Centaur tank crews(i), (ii), (iii)

  Cherbourg(i), (ii)

  Cherbourg (Cotentin) Peninsula(i), (ii), (iii)

  Chester, Charlie(i)

  Churchill AVREs(i), (ii)

  Churchill tanks 42 Crocodiles(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Churchill, Winston S.(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Clyde(i)

  coastal defences(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Element C(i),(ii), (iii)

  Colleville(i)

  Collingwood, Major Bill(i)

  Collins, Corporal(i)

  Combined Operations(i), (ii), (iii)

  Bombardment Unit(i), (ii), (iii)

  Combined Training area, Inverary(i)

  Commandos see British Army, Regiments, Battalions and Batteries and Royal Marines

  conscientious objectors(i)

  Corteil, Private Jack(i)

  Costain(i)

  Crawford, ‘Lofty’(i)

  Crépon(i)

  Cromwell tanks(i)

  Crosby, ‘Bing’(i)

  Cumberland demolition school(i)

  Curtis, Lieutenant Geoff(i) 243 Daimler strongpoint(ii)

  Dakota (aircraft)(i)

  Davis Escape Apparatus(i)

  Dawson, Lieutenant Colonel Robert(i)

  DD tank see Sherman tanks, Duplex-Drive (DD)

  De Gaulle, Charles(i)

  de Latour, Lieutenant Robert(i)

  deception plans(i), (ii), (iii)

  Denmead, Hampshire(i)

  Devon(i),(ii), (iii),(iv)

  Diadem (cruiser)(i)

  Dieppe, failed Allied raid on(i), (ii),(iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Dives River(i)

  dogs, parachuting(i), (ii)

  Dolphin (submarine)(i)

  double agents(i)

  Dowling, Lieutenant Mike(i), (ii)

  Dozulé(i)

  DUKWs (amphibious trucks)(i),(ii), (iii), (iv)

  Dunkirk(i), (ii), (iii)

  E-boats(i), (ii)

  Eisenhower, General Dwight D. (Ike)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii)

  ‘Element C’ obstacles(i),(ii), (iii)

  Elgin(i)

  Elizabeth, Princess(i)

  Elizabeth, Queen(i)

  Empire Javelin (Royal Navy Landing Ship Infantry)(i), (ii), (iii)

  English Channel(i), (ii)

  the crossing(i), (ii), (iii)

  weather conditions(i), (ii), (iii)

  entertainment(i)

  Escoville(i)

  Esquay-sur-Seulles(i)

  Everett, Private(i)

  explosives high liquid 27 training(i)

  fascines(i)

  flails(i), (ii), (iii)

  see also Sherman tanks, Crab flail

  flame thrower tanks(i), (ii)

  flame-throwers (hand-held)(i)

  Flores (gunboat)(i)

  Fort Garry Horse tanks(i)

  Fort George, Inverness(i), (ii)

  Fort Monkton, Gosport(i)

  Fox, Lieutenant Dennis (Freddie)(i), (ii), (iii)

  Free French(i)

  French Resistance(i), (ii), (iii)

  friendly fire(i)

  Frimley Green(i)

  Fritton 33 ‘Funnies’(i), (ii)

  Gale, General(i), (ii)

  Gammon bombs(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Garbo (double agent)(i)

  General Wades (shaped charges)(i)

  Geneva Convention(i)

  George VI, King(i)

  Georges Leygues (cruiser)(i)

  German agents(i)

  German Army(i)

  21st Panzer Division(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  German prisoners of war (of the Allies)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Gibraltar(i)

  Gibson, Jack(i)

  Glasgow (cruiser)(i), (ii), (iii)

  Glen (dog)(i)

  gliders(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi),(vii), (viii), (ix)

  Hamilcar heavy-lift(i)

  Horsa(i),(ii), (iii),(iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Godbold, Corporal Charles(i), (ii), (iii)

  Gold Beach(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi) (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv)

  Jig sector(i)

  King sector(i), (ii), (iii)

  pillboxes(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Gondrée, Georges(i)

  Gosport submarine school(i)

  Graham, Major-General Douglas(i), (ii)

  Greenway, Captain Paul(i), (ii)

  Grenville (destroyer)(i)

  Halifax bombers(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Hall, Charlie(i)

  Hamilcar heavy-lift gliders(i)

  Hannon, Ken(i), (ii)

  Hargreaves, Lieutenant(i)

  Harnett, Trooper ‘Paddy’(i)

  Harris, Air Marshal Sir Arthur (‘Bomber’)(i), (ii)

  Hauger area(i)

  Hawick(i)

  Hawker Hurricanes(i)

  Hawker Typhoons(i)

  Hawkins, Bill(i), (ii)

  Hayling Island(i)

  Hazlehurst, Sergeant(i)

  Hedgerow(i)

  Heinkel bombers(i), (ii)

  Hendry, Jimmy(i)

  Hewlett, Captain(i), (ii)

  Hill, Lance Sergeant Les(i)

  Hillman strongpoint(i), (ii)

  Hilly, Louis(i)

  Hitler, Adolf(i), (ii), (iii)

  Hobart, General Sir Percy(i), (ii), (iii)

  Hobbs, Staff Sergeant(i)

  Holland(i)

  Holmes (frigate)(i)

  Hooper, Lieutenant Tony(i)

  Horsa gliders(i),(ii), (iii),(iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Hunter, Private Jim(i)

  invasion date, June 1944(i), (ii) invasion site(iii)

  Italy(i), (ii) 233 Japan(iii)

  Jenkins, Joe(i)

  Juno Beach(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii) (ix), (x)

  beachmaster(i)

  Langrune(i), (ii)

  pillboxes(i)

  Keller, Major-General Rod(i)

  Kemp, Able Seaman(i)

  Kennedy, J. F.(i)

  Kerr, Sergeant(i)

  Killeen, Corporal(i)

  Kindersley, Brigadier Hugh(i)

  Kingsmill (frigate)(i)

  Kirkpatrick, Lieutenant John(i)

  kit(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  La Gronde Ruisseau(i)

  Lambert, Private(i)

  Land Army Timber Corps(i)

  Landing Barge Vehicle (LBV)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  landing craft(i), (ii), (iii), (iv),(v), (vi),(vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi)

  Landing Craft Assault (LCA)(i), (ii),(iii), (iv)–1,(v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  LCA 911(i), (ii)

  Landing Craft Assault (Hedgerow) (LCA(HR))(i), (ii)

  Landing Craft Gun (LCG)(i), (ii)

  Landing Craft Infantry (LCI)(i),(ii), (iii), (iv)

  Landing Craft Mechanised (LCM)(i)

  Landing Craft Obstacle Clearance Unit(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Landing Craft Personnel (LCP)(i)

  Landing Craft Support (LCS)(i)

  Landing Craft Tank (LCT)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi)

  Landing Craft Tank (Rocket) (LCT(R))(i)

>   Landing Ship Infantry (LSI)(i), (ii), (iii)

  Landing Ship Rocket (LSR)(i)

  Landing Ship Tank (LST)(i), (ii), (iii),(iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Langrune(i), (ii)

  Larkin, Sapper Claude(i)

  Larkin, Joe(i)

  Le Bas de Ranville(i), (ii)

  Le Hamel(i), (ii), (iii)

  Le Havre(i)

  Le Mans(i)

  Le Plein feature(i)

  Le Port(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Leather, Sergeant(i)

  Lébisey(i), (ii)

  Leigh-Mallory, Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford(i), (ii), (iii)

  Lion-sur-Mer(i), (ii)

  loading transports(i), (ii) Lochailort(iii)

  Loire(i)

  looting(i)

  Luftwaffe(i), (ii), (iii)

  Lyme Bay(i), (ii)

  M10 ‘Tank Destroyer’(i)

  Madge, Lance Corporal(i)

  Mae Wests (life jackets)(i), (ii)

  Mandrel jammers(i)

  Marquis, Captain Bobby(i)

  Marshall, General George C.(i), (ii), (iii)

  Marshall, Howard(i)

  marshalling areas(i), (ii)

  Matheson, Sapper 139 Mauritius (cruiser)(i)

  McAlpine(i)

  medical staff(i)

  medical stations(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Merville Battery(i), (ii), (iii), (iv),(v)

  Met Office(i), (ii)

  MI5(i) B1A(ii)

  Midwood, Lieutenant Bob(i)

  Milburn, Sergeant(i)

  Military Police(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Mincher, Fred(i)

  mine-clearers(i)

  mines(i), (ii)

  clearance strategies(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  deactivation(i)

  marine(i), (ii)

  S-mines(i)

  Teller mines(i), (ii), (iii)

  Ministry of Supply(i), (ii)

  Mont Fleury(i)

  Montgomery, General Sir Bernard(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi),(vii), (viii), (ix)

  deception plan(i)

  double(i)

  and the invasion date(i)

  and mine clearance strategies(i)

  pep talks(i)

  showman(i)

  Moor Park(i)

  Morris strongpoint(i)

  mortar, German(i)

  Mortlock (commando)(i)

  motor launches (MLs)(i)

  motor torpedo boats (MTBs)(i)

  Moulton, Lieutenant Colonel James(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Mulberry artificial harbours(i), (ii),(iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI)(i), (ii)

  Neilson, Captain Jock(i)

  Nelson-Smith, Colonel David(i)

  Nelson’s Prayer(i)

  North Africa(i), (ii), (iii)

  Obedient (destroyer)(i)

  Omaha Beach(i),(ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Onslow (destroyer)(i), (ii)

  Operation Gambit(i)

  Operation Neptune(i)

  Operation Overlord

  deception plan(i)

  operation order(i)

  planning(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)