APPENDIX A
Chapter One
1. Montgomery, Volume II Normandy to the Baltic, Invasion, Corgi Books (1974), p. 231.
2. Report by Dwight D. Eisenhower to Combined Chiefs of Staff (1946), (referred to hereafter as Eisenhower Report) pp. 16, 11, 12 & 15 respectively.
3. Airborne Forces compiled by Lt Col TBH Otway, DSO Imperial War Museum (1990), p. 94. (Referred to hereafter as Otway, Airborne Forces).
4. Gale, With the 6th Airborne in Normandy, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. (1948), pp. 10-11.
5. ibid., p. 33.
6. Compiled in part from: Facsimile of Major Lacoste’s Top Secret intelligence assessment report of 8 May 1944, and a report on the 6th Airborne Division Operations in Normandy June 1944, (compiled for battlefield studies by the Airborne Assault Normandy Trust - referred to hereafter as ‘AANT, Battlefield Study’).
7. Compiled in part from AANT, Battlefield Study.
8. Saunders, The Green Beret, Michael Joseph Ltd. (1949), pp. 261-263.
9. Gale, With the 6th Airborne in Normandy, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. (1948), p. 50.
10. Harclerode, ‘Go To It’ The Illustrated History of the 6th Airborne Division, Bloomsbury, 1990, p. 77.
11. Report On The Operations Carried Out by 6 Airborne Division In Normandy 5 June – 3 Sept 44.
12. Anon., Part II, The Air Plan, Staff College Camberley Course Documents (1947).
13. Crookenden, Dropzone Normandy, Ian Allen Ltd. (1976). p. 201.
14. Weeks, Airborne Equipment: A History of its Development, David & Charles Ltd. (1976). pp. 127, 55, 57 & 58.
Chapter Two
1. Maguire, Dieppe August 19th 1942, Jonathan Cape (1963), pp. 183 & 184.
2. Wilmot, The Struggle for Europe, Collins (1952). p. 186.
3. ibid., pp. 186 & 187.
4. ibid., p. 199.
5. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe, William Heinemann Ltd (1948). pp. 262-27.
Chapter Three
1. Ambrose, Pegasus Bridge, 6 June 1944, George Allen & Unwin (1984), pp 1-13. The details of Private Romer were obtained from a letter Private Romer, then a prisoner of war, had sent to Major Howard.
2. ibid.,
3. Middlebrook & Everitt, The Bomber Command War Diaries: 1939-1945, Viking (1985), p. 523.
4. op. cit., Ambrose pp. 2 & 3.
5. Anon., By Air To Battle: The Official Account of the British Airborne Divisions, HMSO (1945), p. 77.
6. Howarth, Dawn of D-Day, Odhams Press Ltd. (1959). p. 47. & Vaughan, All Spirits, Merlin Books Ltd. (1988), pp. 72 & 73.
Chapter Four
1. Compiled from Top Secret Intelligence Report dated 17 May 1944. This report was compiled from RAF reconnaissance missions and details provided by members of the French Resistance.
2. Vaughan, All Spirits, Merlin Books Ltd. (1988), p. 75.
3. Anon., By Air To Battle; The Official Account of the British Airborne Divisions, HMSO (1945), pp. 77 & 78.
4. op. cit., Ambrose, p. 82.
5. Anon., By Air To Battle: The Official Account of the British Airborne Divisions, HMSO (1945), p 78.
Chapter Five
1. ibid., p 79.
2. Anon., By Air To Battle; The Official Account of the British Airborne Divisions, HMSO (1945), pp. 79.
3. Vaughan, All Spirits, Merlin Books Ltd. (1988). pp. 83 & 84.
4. War Diary entry for 1 SS Bde HQ.
5. McNish, Iron Division: The History of The 3rd Division, Ian Allen Ltd. (1978), pp. 99-104.