Chapter IX
The Conclusions

Footnotes

1. The XIX Corps civil affairs detachment could not become operational in St Lô until 29 July, and only then did the French civilian administration begin again to function. XIX Corps AAR, Jul.

2. FUSA Daily Estimated Loss Rpts, Jul, KCRC; Ruppenthal, Logistical Support, I, 460; 30th Div G-3 Jnl, entries 1615 and 1935, 15 Jul, and 2335, 17 Jul; VIII Corps IG Ltr, Rpt of Invesztigation of 358th Inf Regt, 90th Inf Div, 11 Aug.

3. The 8th Division, for instance, recorded 2,080 battle casualties between 8 and 31 July as having sustained 3,050 wounds. 8th Div AAR, 8 Jul-4 Aug.

4. First U.S. Army, Report of Operations, I, 95; 8th Div and XIX Corps AAR's, Jul; CI 84 (29th Div).

5. Raymond J. Guguen, 329th "Buckshot" Infantry Regiment (Wolsenbuettel, Germany: Ernst Fischer, 1945), p. 36.

6. {ERAGIMUS=="We Accomplish" (np., n.d.) a brief history of the 358th Infantry; 358th Inf Jnl, 9 Jul.

7. 314th Infantry Regiment, Through Combat, p. 19.

8. Typewritten MS, Comment on 82d Div Opn, 82d Abn Div AAR, Jul.

9. Hewitt, Story of 30th Division, p. 16.

10. See, for example, 17th FA Gp S-3 Fpty, 3 Jul, VIII Corps G-3 Jnl and File.

11. 329th Inf AAR, Jul; 314th Infantry Regiment, Through Combat, p. 22; 9th Div G-3 Jnl, entry 1430, 17 Jul; XIX Corps Ltr, Notes on Combat Experience, 5 Jul, VIII Corps G-3 Jnl.

12. 314th Infantry Regiment, Through Combat, p. 20.

13. Ltr, Eisdenhower to Marshall, 5 Jul, Pogue Files.

14. 3`4th Infantry Regiment, Through Combat, pp. 20-21; Telecon, Corlett and Gerhardt, 1833, 1 Jul, 29th Div G-3 Jnl.

15. 30th Div G-2 Est 2, s0 Jul (Incl 2 to Intel Annex 3); VII Corps G-2 Est, 17 Jul; Observations of the Div Comdr, 2d Div AAR, Jul.

16. First U.S. Army, Report of Operations, I, 122-23.

17. 30th Div G-3 Jnl, entry 1935, 15 Jul; 2d Battalion, 329th Infantry, Combat Digest, p. 16; First U.S. Army, Report of Operations, I, 86; Sylvan Diary, 209 Jun.

18. First U.S. Army, Report of Operations, I, 91; SHAEF Draft Note for submission to SHAEF G-3 for Release to Public Relations, Meteorological Forecast for Allied Assault on France, June 1944 [14 Aug], SHAEF File GCT 000.0/Ops (A), Meteorological Matters.

19. 8th Div G-3 Jnl, entry 0815, 30 Jul; 1st Div G-3 Jnl and File, 15-22 Jul; Annex B to SHAEF/1062/7/GDP, 17 Jun 44. Topography and Communications, and SHAEF/66876/E, SHAWEF Engr Div Ltr, Effect of Postponing D-Day for OVERLORD, 10 Apr, 44, Shaef File 370.2, Logistic Studies; Talk to Directors of QMG's Dept on Visit to Normandy, n.d., SGS SHAEF File 381; Stacey, The Canadian Army, p. 187.

20. Ruppenthal, Logistical Support, I, 439, 442, 461; First U.S. Army Report of Operations, I, 93-94; FUSA G-4 Daily Summary Rpt, 11 Jul, FUSA G-3 Jnl.

21. First U.S. Army Report of Operations, I, 89.

22. Seventh Army KTB (Draft), 5-10 Jul.

23. Seventh Army KTB, 12 Jul.

24. Report of Kluge-Jodl Telecon in Zimmerman Telecon, 1245, 16 Jul, Agp B KTB.

25. Report of Rommel's inspecton of the front (signed Ecksparre), 16 Jul, Agp B Ktb, Anlagen, Fall 40-Sep 44.

26. Conference, Rommel and Gause, 10 Jul. Agp B KTB, Anlagen, Fall 40-Sep 44.

27. OB WEST KTB 10 Jul.

28. OB WEST KTB, 12 Jul.

29. OB WEST KTB, 11 and 17 Jul.

30. Telecon, Choltitz to Pemsel, 2350, 15 Jul, Seventh Army Tel Msgs.

31. Telecon, Eberbach and Rommel, 1225, 11 Jul, AGp B KTB.

32. Telecon, Kluge and Jodl, 1828, 13 Jul, OB WEST KTB, Anlage 615.



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