1. Stephen Badsey, Classic Battles: Normandy 1944, Allied Landings and Breakout, ed. David G. Chandler, Osprey Military, (London: Reed International, 1990), 34.

2. Ibid., 48.

3. Cornelius Ryan, The Longest Day, (New York: Touchstone, 1959), 23.

4. Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., The Desert Fox in Normandy, (London: Praeger, 1997), 1.

5. Ibid., 7.

6. Friedrich Ruge, Rommel in Normandy, (San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, 1979), 4.

7. Mitcham, 5.

8. Stephen E Ambrose, D-Day: The Climactic Battle of World War II. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 29.

9. Ibid., 34.

10. Mitcham, 14.

11. Mitcham, 15.

12. Ruge, 46.

13. Fred Majdalany, The Fall of Fortress Europe, (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968), 307.

14. Badsey, 17.

15. Ruge, 15.

16. Irwin Rommel, The Rommel Papers, ed. Lidell Hart, B.H., (New York: De Capo Press, 1953), 452.

17. Ruge, 16.

18. Ruge, 16.

19. Ryan, 23.

20. Majdalany, 309.

21. Majdalany, 301.

22. Mitcham, 29.

23. Mitcham, 5.

24. Keith Mallory and Arvid Ottar, The Architecture of War, (New York: Pantheon Books, 1973), 177.

25. Mallory and Ottar, 167.

26. Majdalany, 304.

27. Mallory and Ottar, 177.

28. Ruge, 46.

29. Rommel, 457.

30. Rommel, 458.

31. Rommel, 456.

32. Rommel, 456.

33. Rommel, 460.

34. Rommel, 460.

35. Encyclopedia Britannica, Normandy 1944 -- War Document: Digest of Operation "Overlord". "Digest of Operation "Overlord,” available from http://normandy.eb.com/normandy/pri/Q00294.html; Internet; accessed 17 March 2001.

36. Ibid.

37. Rommel, 459.

38. Ambrose, 217.

39. Russell Miller, Nothing Less Than Victory, (New York: William Morrow and Company Inc, 1993), 282.

40. David Evans, A Guide to the Beaches and Battlefields of Normandy, (London: Michael Joseph, 1994), 31.

41. Ibid., 32.

42. Rommel, 473.

43. Rommel, 474.

44. Hans Speidel, Invasion 1944: Rommel and the Normandy Campaign, (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1950), 82.

45. Mitcham, 78.

46. Mitcham, 85.

47. Speidel, 83.

48. Speidel, 174.

49. Speidel, 173.