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Abbaye aux Dames, Caen
Abernathy, Richard
Abwehr (German military intelligence)
Adams, ‘young’
Ainsworth, John
Ajax, HMS
Albany, Mission
Aldenshaw, Bob
Amfreville
Anderson, Bill
Anguerny
Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge
Arnott, Bud
Arromanches
Mulberry Harbour at
British advance on
Ashcroft, Lieutenant Gerald
Asnelles-sur-Mer
Asseline, Louis
Atlantic Wall: defences
Audrée family
Augusta, USS
Axis Sally (US Nazi broadcaster)
Aydlett, Cyrus
Bailey, Jack
Baillie, Albert, Dean of St George’s Chapel Windsor
Baldwin, USS
Banville
Barnes, John
Barnes, Reginald
Barnes, Sergeant
Barr, Sergeant Bob
Barr, Harry
Bartuzat, Major Joachim
Basly
Baugh, Gilbert
Baumann, Corporal
Baumgarten, Howard (‘Hal’)
Bayeux
Bayfield, USS
Bayly, Lieutenant Commander Patrick
Bazenville
Beaven, Naina
Beeman, Robert
Belton, Charles
Bénouville
strategic importance of bridge
glider-borne troops capture bridge
parachute landings
Lovat’s commandos advance on and relieve
German counter-attack on
devastation
Bensman, Norman
Berchtesgaden
Berghof
Berlin: liberated (2 May 1945)
Bernaville, Château de
Bernières-sur-Mer
Biéville
Blanchard, Wally
Blandford, Pat
Blin, Monsieur (of Vierville)
Blizzard, Arthur
Block, Major
Bluff, Sergeant
bocage (terrain)
Boland, Oliver
bombardments see naval bombardments
Bone, Corporal Harry
Bormann, Martin
Borzikowski, Lieutenant
Boston, Mission
Bowen, Private Dennis
Bradley, Bruce
Bradley, General Omar
and attack on Pointe du Hoc
and Omaha landings
Eisenhower rebukes for lack of information
Brandenburg, Lieutenant
Branham, Felix
Brannen, Malcolm
Brantley, Lloyd (‘Red’)
Braun, Eva
Breeze, David
Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse
Bréville
Brewer, Charlie
Brierre, Eugene
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
broadcasts to French local inhabitants
live radio report from bomber
British military formations
Divisions
6th Airborne
79th Armoured
Regiments
1st Hussars
Cheshires
East Yorkshire
Gloucesters
Green Howards
Oxford and
Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Royal Hampshires
Staffordshire Yeomanry
Suffolks
Parachute troops
3rd Parachute Squadron
9th Parachute Battalion
Commando units
3 Commando
4 Commando
6 Commando
10 Commando
45 Royal Marine Commando
47 Royal Marine
Commando
X-Troop Commando
1st Special Service Brigade
Broekx, Fernand
Broom, Sergeant Major Harold
Brotheridge, Den (‘Danny’)
Brotheridge, Margaret
Bruce, Robert
Brugger, Roger
Bryant, Admiral Carleton
Bryant, H.T.
Bures-sur-Dives
Burt, Hutchie
Buskotte, Sergeant Major Hans
Butcher, Harry
Butler, John
Butler, USS
Buttle, Doris
Cable, Dale
Cadish, Lieutenant
Caen
bombed
prospective capture
battle for
see also Abbaye aux Dames
Caen Canal
Calais: in Allied deception plan
Callahan, Captain Charles
Calvados Organisation (Resistance group)
Campbell (commando)
Campbell, Elsie
Canada
troops land at Juno
troops advance inland
military units
1st Hussars
Queen’s Own Rifles
Canham, Colonel Charles
Cantenberry (US paratrooper)
Capon, Sid
Cardet, Monsieur (pharmacist)
Carentan
Carmick, USS
Carpiquet airfield
Carr, Knyvey (‘Muscles’)
Carter, Wing Commander Jimmy
Carter, Molly
Chained Dogs (Kettenhund; German military police)
Chambers, Albert
Chaperon, Dr (of Caen)
Chauvet, Maurice
Cheesely, Private
Cherbourg
Chicoski, William
Christensen, Chris
Churchill, Winston S.: announces D-Day landings to House of Commons
Clark, Harry
Clarke, Bobby
Clyde, Andy
Colden, Bill
Coldsmith, Bill
Colleville-sur-Mer
Colley, David
Colombelles
Colquhoun, Donald
commandos (British)
see also British forces
Corry, Al
Corry, USS (destroyer)
Cota, Brigadier General Norman (‘Dutch’)
Cotentin peninsula
Coulibeuf, Jean
Courseulles
Cowan, Andrew
Cramer, James
Creully
Criegern, Colonel Friedrich von
Crisbecq
Crisson, Captain Robert
Croker (commando officer)
Cruise, Leslie Palmer
Cunningham, Ginger
Curtis, Commander Rupert
D-Day
delayed by weather
launched
casualties
subsequent campaign and victory
Dalton, Major Charles
Dalton, Major Elliot
Dalzell, George
Daniel (Rommel’s driver)
Danny, Noel
Davis, Baton
Davis, Ralph (‘Preacher’)
Dawson, Joe
Deacon-Pickles, Mary
Dean, ‘Dixie’
Decroix, Gaston
Delente, Robert
DelGiudice, Vincent
Dewey, Admiral George, USN
Ditmar, Robert
Dives, River
Douglas, Charles (‘C.K.M.’)
Dowling, Mike
Doyle, USS
Duffy, Edward
E-boats (German)
Eads, James
Easy Red beach (Omaha)
Ebenfeld, Lieutenant Siegfried
Eberspächer, Helmut
Edwards, Denis
Edye, Alison
Eifler, Eva
Eigenberg, Alfred
Eikner, James
Eisenhower, General Dwight D.
and weather forecasts
confirms launch of invasion
trailer HQ
and Kay Summersby
tensions and anxieties
Butcher reports to on success of landings
pet cat (Shaef)
caution after initial landings
awards posthumous Medal of Honour to Monteith
Eisenhower, Mamie
Eisenhower, Milton
Ekman, Colonel William
Ellery, Sergeant Jack
Emerald, HMS
Emmons, USS
Empire Javelin, HMS
Engineer Battalions
Epstein, Herb
Escher, Rudi, 100
Esquay-sur-Seulles
Falaise gap: German army trapped in
Falley, Lieutenant General William
Fast, Victor
Fellers, Taylor
Ferme de la Minoterie
Feuchtinger, General Edgar
Fina, Nick
Fitch, USS
Fitzgerald, John
Flack, Horace
Flambard, Monsieur
Force G
Force J
Force O
Force S
Force U
Fort Southwick, Hampshire
Fortitude, Operation (deception plan)
Fox, Denis
France
railways and road bridges attacked
forces in Sword Beach landings
civilian casualties
Franceville-Plage
Frankford, USS
Freeman, ‘Flash’
Frerking, Bernhard
Freyberg, Colonel Leodegard
Gale, Major General Sir Richard Nelson
Gallagher, Joe
Gammon, Corporal
Gardner, Charles
Gardner, Donald
Gariepy, Leo
Garlicke, Lieutenant
Gault, Jimmy
Gauthier, Sims
Gentry, William
German Forces
Army Group B
Armies
7th
15th
Army Corps: 84th
Army Divisions
12th SS Panzer
20th Panzer
21st Panzer
91st Airlanding
711 Infantry
Panzer Lehr
Regiments
192nd
726th Infantry
736th Infantry
German Supreme Command (OKW)
Germany
counter-intelligence
casualties
surrenders
Gibbons, Sam
Gibson, John (‘Gibby’)
Gilchrist, Donald
Gillingham, Private
Ginsterhöhe radar station
Glasgow, HMS
gliders
in first attack behind Normandy beaches
reinforce Normandy troops
Glisson, Bennie
Glover, Denis
Glover, Wing Commander Leslie
Gockel, Franz
Godin, Gaston
Goebbels, Joseph
Gold Beach
as landing site
underwater mines
armoured vehicles land at
advance from
Gondrée, Georges and Thérèse
Goodyear (commando)
Göring, Hermann
Gosling, Richard
Gottberg, Captain Wilhelm von
Goupil, Bernard
Goupil, Lilly
Goupil, Marie-Noelle
Gow, Max Harper
Grandcamp
Grant, Robert
Grass, Lieutenant
Gray, Irene
Gray, William
Green, Jimmy
Greenway, Paul
Grimbosq
Grimes, O.T.
Grove, Gerald
Gruchy, Château de, Vierville
Grundfast, Sam
Grunschloss, Captain Alfred
Guillerie, Château de la
Gullickson, Grant
Günsche, Otto
Guriec, Georges
Hamel, Le
Hamel, Marcelle
Hamlett, Werner
Hansmann, Peter
Harding, USS
Harel, Denise
Harnett, Paddy
Harwood, Captain
Hawkes, Bill
Hawkins, George
Hayn, Major Friedrich
Heine, Sergeant
Heinz, André
Heinze, Lieutenant Hans
Hélène, Madame (of Vierville)
Hellmich, General
Helmore, William
Hemingway, Ernest
Henderson, Joe
Hennecke, Commander
Hennessey, Corporal Patrick
Herbert, Bill
Herbst, Heinz
Héricy, André
Hermanville
Hermes, Walter
Herr, Captain
Herrlingen
Hester, Doug
Hickman, Heinrich
High, Kenneth
Hill 70
Hill, Bert
Hill, Brigadier James
Hill, Les
Hill, Sergeant
Hillman, Strongpoint (WN 17)
Hillshure, Lieutenant
Hilton-Jones, Bryan
Hitler, Adolf
orders commandos shot
holds SS Panzer divisions in reserve
at Berchtesgaden
Rommel plans to meet
learns of invasion
Oppeln-Bronikowski disdains
assassination attempt on
Hobbs, Miss (nursing commandant)
Hobson, USS
Hoffman, Lieutenant Commander George
Hoffmann, Lieutenant Commander Heinrich
Hofman, Major General Rudolf
Hogben, Laurence
Holbrook, Lieutenant David
Hollis, Stanley
Holmes, Bobby
Holzman, Ben
Horne, Tommy
Howard, John
commands troops in capture of Bénouville Bridge
relieved by Lovat’s
commandos
holds off German attacks
Hubbard, Lieutenant Lawrence
Hudson, Hal
Hughes, ‘Arsie-Tarsie’
Hunter, Jim
Hurel, Hélène
invasion fleet: numbers of vessels
Ireland, Treadwell
Irving, Bill
Jakl, Alfons
Jefferson, Alan
Jenkins, Paddy
Jenkins, ‘Tucker’
Jodl, General Alfred
receives message of imminent invasion
visits Berghof
told of invasion landings
withholds two panzer divisions from Normandy
orders enemy bridgehead destroyed
John, ‘Taffy’
Jowett, George
Joyich, Big
Juckes, Tim
Junck, General Werner
Juno beach
Canadians land at
as landing beach
as urban site
gap to Sword Beach
advance inland from
Kafkalas, Private
Kahn, Jack
Keegan, John, 50n
Keitel, General Wilhelm
Kerchner, George
Kettenhund see Chained Dogs
Kieffer, Lieutenant Commander Philippe
King, Corporal
Kirchheim, Hildegard
Klessheim, Schloss
Klos, Walter (‘Bull’)
Koch, Lutz
Kortenhaus, Corporal Werner
Kramarczyk, Johann
Krancke, Admiral Theodor
Krause, Edward (‘Cannonball’)
Krick, Irving
Krieg, Lieutenant
Kriftwirth, Heinrich
Krug, Colonel Ludwig
Kruger, Lieutenant Walter
Kusta, Siegfried
Kyle, James
Lagouge family
Lancaster bombers
landing craft: in Channel crossing
Lane, George (Dyuri Lanyi)
Lang, Captain Helmut
Lang, Lance-Corporal
LCC-60 (landing craft control vessel)
Leaphard, Clarke (‘Spots’)
Lébisey
Lecourtois, Denise
Lees, Howard
Lefèvre, Marcel
Lehman, Lieutenant
Leigh-Mallory, Air Marshal Trafford
and weather forecast for D–Day
reports to Butcher
Leonard, Larry
Levaillant, Charles and Hubert
Liebeskind, Lieutenant Helmut
Lindenhof, Villa (Germany)
Lion-sur-Mer
Lofthouse, Ronald
Lomell, Leonard
Long, Harold
Lott, Tommy
Lovat, Simon Fraser, 15th Baron
character and manner
commands 1st Special Service Brigade
lands at Sword Beach
accompanied by piper
advances to relieve Howard at Bénouville
addresses French troops
defensive strategy for first evening
Loÿs, Madame de (of Vierville)
Luck, Major Hans von
Luftwaffe
defensive actions
outnumbered
Rommel blames
Mabry, Captain George
McClean, John
McCook, USS
McCormack, Bill
McDougall, Murdoch
McHugh, Bill
McHugh, Pete
McKay, Ernie
McKenna (commando)
McKeogh, Staff Sergeant Mickey
McKernon, Francis
McNeely, Carlton
McSkimming, Charles
Madden, John
Magonette, Antoine
Magonette, Jean-Marie
Marcks, General Erich
Marshall, William
Martin, Charlie
Martin, Jacques
Martin, Paul
Martin, Père
Martin, Major Peter
Martin, Captain Peter Lawrence de Carteret
Mary, Monsieur
Masters, Peter
Matze, Mervin
Mauritius, HMS
May, Gil
Melun, Eugène
Mercader, Guillaume
Mercader, Madeleine
Merville
Merville Battery (German)
Meyer, Colonel Helmuth
Meyer, Hubert
Meyer, Irmgard
Meyer, Lieutenant Colonel Karl
Meyer, Kurt (‘Panzer’)
Miller, Dusty
Miller, Robert
Miller, Squadron Leader
Millin, Bill, 134, 275
Mills-Roberts, Colonel Derek
mines: defusing
Missions, John
Mole, Ronald
Moncreiffe, Iain
Monks, Noel
Mont Fleury
Monteith, Jimmy (‘Punk’)
Montgomery, General Bernard Law
hears weather forecast for D-Day
optimism
Morgan, Blacky
Morris, Cliff
Morris-Jones, Sir Henry
Mower, Alan
Mueller, Major Hermann
Mulberry Harbours
Mullally, Pat
Mullen, Sapper
Murdock, Gilbert
Myles, Bob
Nalecz-Tyminski, Romuald
Nash, Leo
naval bombardments
Naval Combat Demolition Units
Neptune, Operation
Neuville-au-Plain
Nevada, USS
Nevez, Robert le
Nicolson, Harold
Nissen, Corporal Hermann
Normandy
local population warned to leave
under German occupation
air war
civilians flee
beachhead established
Allied breakout
battle for
number of vehicles landed after D-Day
Ohmsen, Sub Lieutenant Walter
OKW see German Supreme
Command
Olard family (of Vierville)
O’Leary, Sapper
Olsen, Ross
Omaha (beach)
as landing site
preliminary bombing
first catastrophic landings
defences
US casualties
German defence
naval bombardment
hold-up
Americans breach defences and advance from
progress delayed and limited
medical treatment on
beachhead established
Mulberry Harbour at
Oppeln-Bronikowski, Colonel Leopold August Hermann von
Orion, HMS
Orman, Lieutenant
Orne, River
Osbourne, ‘Ozzy’
Otlowski, Sergeant William
Otway, Terence
Ouistreham
Overlord, Operation
planning
dependence on full moon and dawn tide
plan to establish beachhead
Palmer, Commander George
Palmer, Robert
paratroops
first landings
at Sainte-Mère-Église
Paris: liberated (25 August 1944)
Paris, Raymond
Parley, Harry
Parr, Wally
Parry, Allen
Pas de Calais: Germans believe to be invasion site
Patterson, Dr Joe
Peachey, Sam
Pemsel, General Max
Périers
Perry, Leslie
Petty, William (‘L-Rod’)
Picot, Jean
Pike, Malvin
Pilck, Joe
Pinnegar, Harry
Piprel, Fernand
Piprel, Pierre
Plein, Le
Pluskat, Major Werner
Podolak, Felix
Pointe du Hoc
attack on German heavy guns
troops advance on
Pommier, Juliette
Porcella, Tom
Port-en-Bessin
Porteous, Pat, VC
Pouppeville
Price, Ryan
Priller, Josef (‘Pips’)
Putnam, Lyle
Puttkamer, Karl von
Pyle, Ernie
Pyman, Captain Alan
Quaire, Madame (of Caen)
Queen Alexandra Hospital Portsmouth
Raaen, Captain John
Rae, Bob
Ramey, Lieutenant Commander Ralph (‘Rebel’)
Ramillies, HMS
Ramsay, Admiral Sir Bertram
hears weather forecast for D-Day
reports to Eisenhower on success of landings
optimism after initial successes
Rangers (US)
Ranville
Ranville Bridge
Ravinski, ‘Big Sky’
Ray, John
Rayson, George
Rebarchek, Lieutenant John
Reeman, Lieutenant Douglas
Rees, Goronwy
Regnauld, Georges
Reich Labour Service
Reichling, Sergeant Hans
Renaud, Alexandre
Renaud, Henri-Jean
Renaud, Simone
Renaud-Dandicolle, Jean (‘Captain Jean’)
Resistance (French)
gathers information before D-Day
informed of invasion
sabotage actions
Reviers
Rice, Julian (‘Bud’)
Richard, Lieutenant Harold
Richards, Jack
Richter, Lance Corporal
Richter, Major-General Wilhelm
Richthofen, Manfred von Baron
Riggs, Clarius
Riley, Micky
Riva Bella
Rivière, La
Roach, George
Robehomme
Roberts, HMS
Robertson, Sergeant ‘Pilgrim’
Roche-Guyon, Château de La
Rocks, Hugh (‘Rocky’)
Roebuck, Lionel
Roemer, Helmut
Rome: captured (4 June 1944)
Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin
commands Army Group B
interrogates George Lane
believes Normandy to be invasion site
differences with Rundstedt
leaves for Germany and weather delay to D-Day
plans to trap Allied forces inside beachhead
HQ informed of parachute landings
requests release of two panzer divisions
troops man Atlantic Wall
in Germany during D-Day landings
routines
Speidel informs of invasion
races back to Normandy and defences at Gold Beach
strategy of fast counter-attack
pessimism
denies involvement in Hitler assassination plot and commits suicide
Rommel, Lucie-Maria
Rommel, Manfred
Roosevelt, Brigadier General Theodore (‘Teddy’)
Roseveare, Major Tim
Ross, Barney
Rossey, René
Rousset d’Acon, Le (hamlet)
Royal Air Force: 97 Squadron
Rubin, Mort
Rucqueville
Rudder, James
and attack on Pointe du Hoc
force trained by Lovat
Ruge, Admiral Friedrich
Rundstedt, Field Marshal Gerd von
differences with Rommel
weather-conscious
Rupinski, Sergeant Frank
Russell, Captain Clyde
Russell, G.V.
Russell, Ken
Ryley, Captain
Saint-Aubin-d’Arquenay
Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
Saint-Clair, Normandy
Saint-Côme-du-Mont
Saint-Laurent
Saint-Lô
Sainte-Mère-Église
Salmuth, General Hans von
Sammon, Charles
Sampson, Otis
Satterlee, USS
Sauer, Erwin
Sauer, Hans
Schlemmer, Private Zane
Schlieben, General von
Schmidt, Major Hans
Schmundt, General Rudolf
Schneider, Lieutenant Colonel Max
Schröder, Josef
Schroeder, Captain Leonard
Schulz, Herbert
Schuster, Willi
Scott, Wing Commander Desmond
Scott, Stanley (‘Scotty’)
Severloh, Hein
SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force)
receives intelligence from French Resistance
at Southwick House
Shea, Jack
Sheppard, Able Seaman
Shubrick, USS
Siggins, Harry
Simeth, Peter
Siresme, Mademoiselle de
Skipp, Don
Slapton Sands, Devon
Slaughter, Robert
Smith, Major George
Smith, Private
Smith, Sandy
Snyder, Sergeant Ronald
Sommers, Martin
Southwick House, Hampshire
Spalding, John
Special Operations Executive (SOE): receives information from Resistance
Speer, Albert and Margarete
Speidel, General Hans
Spencer, Captain Lyndon
Stagg, James
Stalin, Josef: demands second front
Stares, Corporal
Starling, HMS
Staubwasser, Colonel
Steel, Lieutenant William
Steele, John
Stein, Herman
Steiner, Lieutenant Raimund
Stephenson, Corporal
Stinnetti, Merril
Stirling, David, 133n
Stivison, William
Stopes, Marie
Story, Colonel
Strong, Major-General Kenneth
Stübe, Professor Walter
Sturm, Alfred
Summersby, Kay
Svenner (Norwegian destroyer)
Sweeney, Tod
Sweetapple, Corporal
Sword Beach
landings at
tanks land at
naval bombardment
commandos land at
air attack by Priller
gap to Juno Beach
Synnott, Jimmy
Sztojay, Döme
Talbot, Rear Admiral Arthur
Talybont, HMS
Tappenden, Corporal
Tarbrush X, Operation
Tarrant Rushton, Dorset
Taxable, Operation
Taylor, Major-General Maxwell
Tellers, Corporal
Tempelhoff, General Hans-Georg von
Tessier, René
Texas, USS
Theen, Fritz
Thistlethwaite, Colonel Evelyn
Thompson, USS
Thornton, Sergeant Charles (‘Wagger’)
Tidrick, Lieutenant Edward
Tiger, Exercise
Tilly-sur-Seulles
Tlapa, Laddie
Tooley, Lieutenant
Tourcoing
Townsend, ‘Towny’
Trévières
Trevor, Travis
Troarn bridge
Tubb, Major Charles
Tucker, Bill
Turnbull, Turner
Tway, Private
Typhoon aircraft
Underhill, Doug
United States of America
troops and equipment in England
troops perish at Slapton Sands, Devon
United States Army units
Divisions
101st Airborne
4th Infantry
8th Infantry
Regiments: 505th Parachute Infantry
United States Eighth Air Force
Utah Beach
as landing site
preliminary bombing
naval bombardment
landings
German counter-attacks
success at
advance from
V1 sites
van Fleet, Colonel James
Vander Beek, Howard
Vandervoort, Benjamin (‘Vandy’)
Varaville
Vaughan, John
Vaughan, Sergeant
Vaumicel, Château de
Verlaine, Paul
Vermeer, Elmer
Vershare, Gene (‘Rattop’)
Vestuti, Emil
Videcosville
Viebig, Major Wilhelm
Vierville-sur-Mer
Villers-Bocage
Vimont
Vion, Geneviève
Volksdeutsche: capitulate
Vollrath, Walter
Vrannen, Malcolm
Wagar, Joe
Walker, Captain Frederic
Wallwork, Jim
Walsh, Dr
Ward, Tom
Warlimont, General Walter
told of invasion
on Hitler’s optimism
Warspite, HMS
Washburn, Lieutenant Colonel Walter
Watson, Jean
Weast, Carl
Webb, Corporal
Wegner, Karl
Weir, Captain
Wells, Larue
Wendt, Fritz
Wernecke, Kurt
Westley (commando)
Whittington, George
Widerstandsnest (bunkers)
Wilkening, Ludz
Wilkins, Jim
Wilson, Charlie
Wilson, Joe
Wilson, Sarah (‘Skippy’)
wireless communication: weakness
Wise, Lieutenant
Witosky, Monsieur
Witt, Frau
Witt, General Major Fritz
WN62 (German strongpoint)
Wodarczyk, Sergeant Heinz
Wolfe, Major-General James: attack on Quebec (1759)
Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS; Wrens)
Wood, Lieutenant David
Wooldridge, Roy
Wray, Waverley
Wright, Lieutenant Edward
Wuensch, Anton
Wuensche, Frau
Wuensche, Max
Yefremovka: massacre
Young, Peter
Yver, Jean