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The Cornelius Ryan collection
The Cornelius Ryan Collection contains all the articles, notes, and materials that Ryan used to write his three famous books: The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, and The Last Battle. The detailed, complete collection is located in the Archives and Special Collections division of The Alden Library at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
The Longest Day
Box 26—Military Documents and Analyses
Box 27—Various Interviews
Box 28—Chronologies
Box 29—Research Synopsis
Special sources
AHB/BAM, “Telephone Log of the German Seventh Army from June 6 to June 30, 1944,” Translation VII/70, 512.621.
Grint, Keith, Leadership, Management, and Command: Rethinking D-Day, Palgrave MacMillan, NY, NY, 2008.
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Showalter, Dennis E., “The Convenient Opponent: The Wehrmacht and D-Day,” Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 1995.
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German GOB—6 June, 1944, David Caldwell, 1998 (website unavailable)
Third Reich in Ruins, http://thirdreichruins.com/miscbldgs2.htm
Wikipedia, https://www.wikipedia.org
Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt; Commander-in-Chief, Western Theater. (German Historical Museum)
Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel; Commander, Army Group B. (German Historical Museum)
Generalleutnant Günther Blumentritt; Chief of Staff, Western Theater. (National Archives)
Generalleutnant Alfred Gause; Chief of Staff, Army Group B. (German Historical Museum)
GeneralOberst! Friedrich Dollmann; Commander,âSeventh Army. (German Historical Museum)
GeneralOberst! Hans von Salmuth; Commander, Fifteenth Army. (German Historical Museum)
âVizeadmiral Friedrich Ruge; Chief Naval Advisor, Army Group B. (German Naval Museum)
Admiral Theodor Krancke; Commander-in-Chief, Naval Forces, Western Theater. (Bundesarchiv 146-1977-028-03)
GeneralOberst! Alfred Jodl; Chief of Staff, Operations Office, OKW. (Bundesarchiv 146-1971-033-01)
Generalleutnant Walter Warlimont: Deputy Operations Chief of Staff, OKW. Taken in 1939.(Bundesarchiv 146-1987-104-27)
General der Panzertruppen Freiherr Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg; Panzer Group West. (National Archives)
General der Artillerie Erich Marcks; Commander,84th Corps. (German Historical Museum)
A small view of the massive French château at Fontainebleu, Rommel’s first headquarters. (Wikipedia)
La Roche-Guyon on the Seine River. Rommel’s second headquarters, beginning on March 9, 1944. (Musee del’Armèe, Paris.)
The Berghof—Hitler’s mountain retreat on the Obersalzberg. (David Duggleby/BNPS)
Alfred Jodl, Hitler, and Wilhelm Keitel analyze a map at the Berghof.
Field Marshal von Rundstedt at the Hôtel Georges V in Paris, winter 1944. (After the Battle, Vol. 141, Bundesarchiv 717/2/45)
Field Marshal Rommel inspecting Denmark, December, 1943. Admiral Ruge is next to him.(Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-263-1595-30)
Rommel inspecting the 105mm battery at Saltzwedel near Ostend, December 21, 1943. (Bundesarchiv 1011-295-1596-12)
Conference in Paris, January 13, 1944: Rommel, von Rundstedt Gause, and Zimmermann. (Bundesarchiv 1011-718-0149-12A)
Von Rundstedt and Rommel discuss strategy at 81st Corps headquarters, March 30, 1944. (Bundesarchiv1011-298-1763-09)
The Rommel family in Herrlingen: Manfred, Lucie, and Erwin. (World War II Foundation)
Map of Northern France (Author)
The Low Countries (Author)
The Normandy coast. (Author)
German major units, June 1944. (Author)
German division locations, June 1944. (Marshall Cavendish, Vol. 12, p.1565)
OB West Chain of Command, Spring 1944. (Author)
Seventh Army Order of Battle—June 1944. (Author)
Fifteenth Army Order of Battle—June 1944. (Author)
84th Corps Order of Battle—June 1944. (Author)
The main entrance to La Roche-Guyon, located on the right side of the château. It was from here that Rommel would leave for his inspection tours. (ABC Salles)
A recreation of Rommel’s study at La Roche-Guyon. Note the historic tapestries on the walls. (Rommel teamWorx Television & Film GmbH, 2012)
Von Rundstedt visiting 1st SS Panzer Division in Beverloo, Belgium, March 1944. The division commander, SS Oberführer Fritz Witt, is to his right. (Bundesarchiv Bild 1011-297-1739-04A)
Hitler’s birthday—April 20, 1944. (Frank, p.79)
The La Roche-Guyon ferry. With the bridge opposite the château gone and the Seine bridges bombed, this ferry was the only way Rommel could cross the river to inspect units in western France. (Rommel, teamWorx Television & Film GmbH, 2012)
The downed roadway bridge across the Seine River at Vernon, taken shortly after it was brought down. Rommel frequently crossed the river over this bridge on his inspections, until some six dozen B-26s bombed the town again on May 26, 1944 (the railroad bridge a bit further downstream had been destroyed on May 7). Along with this bridge, 50 houses were destroyed and another 150 heavily damaged. Some 45 people were killed and another 80 injured. (GiVerNet)
Rommel and Marcks somewhere along the Normandy coast — May 9, 1944. (Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-300-1863-29)
Alfred Becker. His mobile artillery and rocket launcher creations were a big part in making the 21st Panzer Division a lethal unit. (National Archives)
General Johannes Blaskowitz, commander, Armeegruppe G. He was in Hitler’s disfavor throughout the war. (National Archives)
Western Theater conference, May 8, 1944. Seated (l-r): Geyr von Schweppenburg, Johannes Blask
owitz, Hugo Sperrle, von Rundstedt, Rommel, and Theodor Krancke. Seated opposite them (out of picture) are their chiefs of staff. (After the Battle, Vol.141, p.13)
Rommel inspecting beach obstacles; April 1944. (Bundesarchiv Bild 1011-719-0243-33)
Field Marshal von Rundstedt greets General Guderian, May 1944. (Alamy (Sueddeutsche Zeitung))
Oberst!leutnant Helmut Meyer, Chief Intelligence Officer, Fifteenth Army. (Cornelius Ryan Collection)
General Feuchtinger, commander, 21st Panzer Division. (Bundesarchiv Bild 1011-300-1865-12)
Max Pemsel, Chief of Staff, Seventh Army. (Wikipedia)
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