Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble (61 page)

‘Jerry made one big error …’
, William H. Simpson Papers, Box 11, USAMHI

‘A catastrophe overtook …’
, Nicolaus von Below,
Als Hitlers Adjutant, 1937–1945
, Mainz, 1980, 399

‘Spirits have reached a new low …’
, letter to Colonel Waine Archer from Colonel Pete T. Heffner Jr, 3.1.45, NARA RG 498 290/56/5/3, Box 1463

Panic in Strasbourg, NARA RG 331, SHAEF records (290/715/2) E-240P, Box 38

‘It is self-evident …’
, Charles de Gaulle,
Mémoires de Guerre: Le Salut, 1944–1946
, Paris, 1959, 145

‘Juin said things …’
, James Robb diary, DDE Lib, Papers, Pre-Pres., Box 98

‘the French Army would get …’
, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Crusade in Europe
, London, 1948, 396

‘If we were involved …’
, De Gaulle,
Mémoires de Guerre: Le Salut, 1944–1946
, 148

‘This modification …’
,
‘I think we’ve done …’
, Eisenhower,
Crusade in Europe
, 396

‘It suggested that …’
, 4.1.45, DCD

‘in high spirits’
, letter to Colonel Waine Archer from Colonel Pete T. Heffner Jr, 5.1.45, NARA RG 498 290/56/5/3, Box 1463

‘next to the weather …’
,
PDDE
, iv, 2491

‘signal intelligence to …’
, 3.1.45, TNA HW 14/119

‘This presents a serious …’
, ibid.

‘simply refused …’
, Thomas E. Griess, 14.10.70, York County Heritage Trust, York, PA, Box 94

‘surprised, captured or surrounded …’
, VI Corps, NARA RG 498 290/56/5/3, Box 1463

‘attempt to discredit the Americans’
, Chester B. Hansen Collection, Box 42, S-28, USAMHI

‘the public clamor …’
, 6.1.45, CBHD

‘wouldn’t serve one day …’
, 8.1.45, CBHD

‘repudiate the efficacy …’
, ibid.

‘the German breakthrough …’
, etc., 6.1.45, CBHD

‘At the same time …’
, 5.1.45, CBHD

‘invaluable’
, TNA CAB 106/1107

‘The battle has been most interesting …’
, etc., TNA CAB 106/1107

‘although this statement …’
, ibid.

‘The Battle of the Ardennes …’
, ibid.

‘return it to me …’
,
‘I wanted it back …’
, 8.1.45, CBHD

‘I fear great offence …’
, TNA CAB 106/1107

‘a defensive success …’
, etc., Generalmajor Otto Remer, ETHINT 80

‘The 11th Armored is …’
, 4.1.45,
PP
, 615

‘There were some unfortunate …’
, ibid.

‘a bitter cold …’
, CBHD, Box 5

‘continued to pour destruction’
, Ed Cunningham, ‘The Cooks and Clerks’,
Yank
, 16.3.45

‘Units frequently make errors …’
, Lt Col. Glavin, G-3 6th Armored Division, VII Corps, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1459

‘If you enter a village …’
, 6th Armored Division, NARA RG 498 290/56/5/2, Box 3

11th Armored Division, CMH
Ardennes
, 647

‘The 17th Airborne, which attacked this …’
, 4.1.45,
PP
, 615

‘We have had replacements …’
, 17th Airborne, NARA RG 498 290/56/5/2, Box 3

‘The German follows a fixed form …’
, etc., ibid.

‘Our men had great confidence …’
, Colonel J. R. Pierce, NARA RG 498 290/56/5/2, Box 3

Using artillery to dig foxholes, VII Corps, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1459

‘The 17th has suffered …’
, 8.1.45, CBHD

Sergeant Isidore Jachman, Congressional Medal of Honor Library, vol. i, 172–3, Peter Schrijvers,
Those Who Hold Bastogne
, New Haven, CN, 2014, 225

‘saw a rifleman …’
, VIII Corps, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1463

‘all for putting …’
, etc.,
PP
, 615

‘Roads were icy …’
, etc., 3.1.45, PWS

‘A lucky tree burst …’
, William H. Simpson Papers, Box 11, USAMHI

‘Trois Ponts was cleared …’
, 3.1.45, PWS

‘greatly pleased with …’
, ibid.

‘the 2nd Armored Division …’
, 4.1.45, CBHD

Fighting for Bure, War Diary, 13th Bn Parachute Regiment, TNA WO 171/1246

Yvonne Louviaux, in Jean-Michel Delvaux,
La Bataille des Ardennes autour de Rochefort
, 2 vols., Hubaille, 2004–5, ii, 123–4

‘this headquarters thought …’
, 6.1.45, PWS

‘declare there’s no evidence …’
, 7.1.45, Hobart Gay Papers, USAMHI

‘Undoubtedly the hard fighting …’
, José Cugnon, quoted Delvaux,
Rochefort
, ii, 28

‘they certainly did not seem …’
, ibid., i, 232

‘At 09.30, we saw …’
, diary of Sister Alexia Bruyère, quoted ibid., i, 143

‘O little town of Houffalize …’
,
PP
, 632

‘Resistance never let up …’
, Captain H. O. Sweet, IWM, 95/33/1

‘Everyone thinks …’
, NARA RG 165, Entry 178, Box 146353

‘Anyone taken prisoner …’
, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4157 SRN 4772 25/3/45

‘Do not get the impression …’
, Major Gen. Kenneth Strong 02/14/2 3/25 – Intelligence Notes No. 33, IWM Documents 11656

‘When the Germans are having …’
, etc., NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1459

‘were more meek …’
, MFF-7, C1-107

‘Too good treatment …’
, VIII Corps, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1463

‘We have never been …’
, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1466

Forcing German prisoners to walk
barefoot, Gerald Astor,
A Blood-Dimmed Tide
, New York, 1992, 375

‘prisoners were beginning …’
, TNA WO 231/30

Pozit fuses, V Corps, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1455

‘The results of these …’
, VII Corps, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1459

‘If we want to win the war …’
, Generalmajor Ludwig Heilmann, 5th Fallschirmjäger-Division, FMS B-023

‘If there is any suspicion …’
, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/3616 SIR 1548

‘Ten or twelve …’
, Feldwebel Rösner, 7th Battery, 26th Volksgrenadier-Division, TNA WO 311/54

‘I nearly gagged …’
, Robert M. Bowen,
Fighting with the Screaming Eagles: With the 101st Airborne from Normandy to Bastogne
, London 2001, 204–5

‘The wounded …’
, Assistant Arzt Dammann, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/3616 SIR 1573

‘Chamber of Horrors’
, etc., ‘Shock Nurse’, Ernest O. Hauser,
Saturday Evening Post
, 10.3.45

Non-battle casualties, CMH
Medical
, 385–6

‘nausea, crying …’
, VII Corps, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1459

‘When one man cracks …’
, ibid.

‘Tank fatigue’
, ibid.

‘long hours of exposure’
, ibid.

‘Even with hard and experienced …’
, 5th Infantry Division, XX Corps, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1465

2nd and 9th Panzer-Divisions, General der Panzertruppe Heinrich von Lüttwitz, XLVII Panzer Corps, FMS A-939

‘It is the coldest weather …’
, 8.1.45, A. J. Cowdery, Civil Affairs, IWM Documents 17395 10/18/1

‘The Führer has ordered …’
,
HLB
, 597

‘It’s the greatest mockery …’
, Generalmajor Hans Bruhn, 533rd Volksgrenadier-Division, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4364 GRGG 240

‘The Germans are pulling …’
, 11.1.45, William H. Simpson Papers, Box 11, USAMHI

‘We are aware of your views …’
, to Major General Clayton Bissell, TNA WO 171/4184

‘like the heavens …’
, Colonel Liebisch,
Art of War Symposium
, US Army War College, Carlisle, PA, 1986, 617

‘Forward into the fascist …’
,
Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voina
, Moscow, 1999, iii, 26

‘had enabled the Russian …’
, 15.1.45, CBHD

‘The fear of Russia …’
, Generalleutnant von Heyking, 6th Fallschirmjäger-Division, TNA WO 171/4184

‘What gets me …’
, quoted Air Marshal Sir James Robb, ‘Higher Direction of War’, typescript,
11.46, provided by his daughter

‘My God, don’t they have …’
, Stephen E. Ambrose,
Band of Brothers
, New York, 2001, 229

‘Every replacement …’
, Tim G. W. Holbert, ‘Brothers at Bastogne – Easy Company’s Toughest Task’,
World War II Chronicle
s, Winter 2004/5, 22–5

2nd Battalion, 506th at Rachamps, Ambrose,
Band of Brothers
, 223–4

‘violent enemy …’
, NARA RG 498 290/56/5/3, Box 1463

‘Having visited villages …’
, 14.1.45, A. J. Cowdery, Civil Affairs, IWM Documents 17395 10/18/1

‘the troops have been over-enthusiastic …’
, A. Fieber, 1st Bn, Manchester Rgt, in 53rd (Welsh) Div., IWM Documents 4050 84/50/1

‘The right wing …’
, 2nd Panzer-Division, FMS P-109e

‘He was trying to thaw him out …’
, Martin Lindsay,
So Few Got Through
, Barnsley, 2000, 160

‘Very soon an American …’
, 2nd Panzer-Division, FMS P-109e

‘brick houses …’
, etc., MFF-7, C1-100/101

‘At one point …’
, Patton, quoted Gerald Astor,
A Blood-Dimmed Tide
, New York, 1992, 366

‘Contact was established …’
, Armored School, Fort Knox, General Instruction Dept, 16.4.48, CARL N-18000.127

‘The Division does not …’
, quoted H. Essame,
The Battle for Germany
, London, 1970, 117

‘The situation is now restored’
, 17.1.45, CBHD

‘At 10.30 the Field Marshal …’
, William H. Simpson Papers, Box 11, USAMHI

‘That “protect the Ninth’s …’
, ibid.

‘the United States troops …’
, TNA CAB 106/1107

Telephone transcript, William H. Simpson Papers, Box 11, USAMHI

‘First and Third US Armies in …’
, Montgomery to Brooke, 14.1.45, Nigel Hamilton,
Monty: The Field Marshal 1944–1976
, London, 1986, 325

‘Any future moves …’
, William H. Simpson Papers, Box 11, USAMHI

‘His forces are now relegated …’
, 2.12.44, CBHD

Whiteley, not Bedell Smith, D. K. R. Crosswell,
Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith
, Lexington, KY, 2010, 853

‘The reputation and the good will …’
, 24.1.45, Hobart Gay Papers, USAMHI

‘The town is in ruins …’
, NARA RG 407 E 427 2280, Box 2425

XIX TAC claims, CMH
SC
, 395 n. 111

‘The three tactical air forces …’
, Joint Report No. 1 by Operational Research Section 2nd Tactical Air Force and No. 2 Operational Research Section, 21st Army Group, TNA WO 231/30

‘did not play a decisive …’
, Generalmajor Siegfried von Waldenburg, 116th Panzer-Division, FMS B-038

‘The Third Army today …’
, 29.1.45, CBHD

‘He is a good officer …’
,
PP
, 630

‘a tremendous palace …’
, William H. Simpson Papers, Box 11, USAMHI

‘compelled to ransack …’
, ‘Eagle Took’, 16.1.45, CBHD

‘his customary slow …’
, 4.2.45, CBHD

‘passed scarred and …’
, ibid.

Belgian civilian casualties, CMH
SC
, 332

‘tremendous number …’
, 25.1.45, A. J. Cowdery, Civil Affairs, IWM Documents 17395 10/18/1

Damage in La Roche, Peter Schrijvers,
The Unknown Dead: Civilians in the Battle of the Bulge
, Lexington, KY, 2005, 325

Trial of Kampfgruppe Peiper, FMS C-004

‘The criticism whether it …’
, Interrogation of Generalfeldmarschall Keitel and Generaloberst Jodl, 20.7.45, TNA WO 231/30

Falling back to the Meuse, Seventh Army, FMS A-876

‘The promptness with which …’
, Generaloberst Alfred Jodl, FMS A-928

‘no other army in the world …’
, 24.12.44, CBHD

‘Officers and men …’
, Generalmajor Rudolf Freiherr von Gersdorff, FMS A-933

‘Every day that …’
,
‘the last gasp …’
, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, FMS A-941