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The following are accounts from men with the British and Canadian forces landing on Gold, Juno and Sword Beaches on D-Day. Lieutenant K.P....

These two accounts show the devastating effect of Allied air power on the attempts by German armoured units to move up to the invasion area by...

Thanks for the clarification and addition information Guys, I'll be digging into the accounts again later. Pat

Thanks for your feedback Sean, I'll see if there is more accounts tied to these two units. Regards, Pat

Another extract from Kortenhaus: Gefreiter Werner Kortenhaus, 21st Panzer Division [p92] 'I would say we were ready to march at 2 a.m. at the...

Niels, I should have started Kortenhaus's accounts in the correct order. This is an editor's note just prior to the first account by this man:...

Thanks Niels, I wrongly posed the question above regarding the identity of the 'new' Battalion Commander, now identified by you as Lt.Col....

Thanks for the feedback Guys, Its all that there is from Leutnant Poppel's diary, but there are quite a few other unrelated German accounts in...

Thanks Niels, Just missed you there

There appears to be no diary entry for the 10th June...unless the duplicate 11.00hrs reference above is a typo: '11 June. Now the time has come....

John, Do you recall the reference to the German OP in a chimney stack in Carentan; its somewhere in the American accounts. Thanks, Pat

Same account... '9 June. Now, half way up the mountain, we can at last see the American infantry units. Well, you fellows, we've been waiting for...

Just to finish the diary entry for the 8th June... 'Meanwhile it has turned into a beautiful day, blue sky, the sun burning hot in the sky. On...

Hi Niels, Yes, I concur; the OP seems to be in the Carentan northern suburbs...was there not some reference to a factory or creamery smoke stack...

Moving on; same account... 'Through the battery commander's telescope we can see the enemy fleet at the mouth of the Vire. An overwhelming...

A bit more; same account... '8 June: Things get under way before dawn. Only one thing is wrong: it's not our attack, but the enemy's, hitting...

Niels, Where was 6. Fallschirmjäger HQ on the 7th/8th June? Thanks, Pat

A bit more from the same account... 'A massive operation is underway there. ADCs come and go, messengers hurry past and are quickly dispatched on...