* Quoted in Cavallero, Commando Supremo, p. 277.

* Rommel, by Desmond Young, p, 269.

* The following shortly explain the code-names occurring in this chapter:

GYMNAST: The landing in North-West Africa, later called “Torch”.

JUPITER: Operations in Northern Norway.

ROUND-UP: The invasion of German-dominated Europe, afterwards called “Overlord”.

SLEDGEHAMMER: The attack on Brest or Cherbourg in 1942.

* Robert Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, pp. 603–5.

* My italics.—W.S.C.

* My italics.—W.S.C.