by Mark Zuehlke
7 Major C.M. Wightman, “Personal Diary,” Reginald Roy Collection, University of Victoria Special Collections, 3.
8 Roy, 234.
9 W. Berry, “Personal Accounts of Counter Attack on Putot,” Appendix to Canadian Scottish Regiment War Diary, June 1944, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
10 Geoffrey D. Corry, interview by Tom Torrie, 12 August 1987, University of Victoria Special Collections.
11 Thomas William Lowell Butters, interview by Tom Torrie, 19 August 1987, University of Victoria Special Collections.
12 Cabeldu, 4.
13 Maj. G.T. MacEwan, “Battle Narrative: D Day and the Counter-Attack on Putot-en-Bessin,” 145.2C4013(D3), Directorate of History, Department of National Defence, 6.
14 Ibid.
15 Cabeldu, 4.
16 MacEwan, 6.
17 Pte. R.H. Tutte, “The Advance, Occupation and Holding of the Bridge at Putot-en-Bessen As I Saw It,” Appendix to Canadian Scottish War Diary, June 1944, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
18 Pte. W.A.P. Campbell, “Personal Narrative in Personal Notes of Assault by c Scot R Personnel,” 145.2C4013(D1), Directorate of History, Department of National Defence, 1.
19 MacEwan, 6.
20 Roy, 236.
21 Lt. Thos. W.H. Butters, “Counter Attack on Putot-en-Besson on 9th [sic] June 44 and the Subsequent 24 hrs at the bridge: Collective Report by 17 Pl. ‘D’ Coy. 1 C.Scot.R,” Appendix to Canadian Scottish Regiment War Diary, June 1944, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
22 Butters interview.
23 Tutte, n.p.
24 Ibid.
25 Campbell, 1.
26 N.a., “War Diary ‘A’ Coy. I C. Scot R.,” Appendix to Canadian Scottish Regiment War Diary, June 1944, Library and Archives Canada, 2.
27 Ibid.
28 Jack Daubs, interview by John Gregory Thompson, London, ON, 9 October 2003.
29 Roy, 237–38.
30 “War Diary ‘A’ Coy. I C. Scot R.,” 2.
31 Roy, 238.
32 “War Diary ‘A’ Coy. I C. Scot R.,” 2.
33 Roy, 238.
34 Campbell, 1.
35 “War Diary ‘A’ Coy. I C. Scot R.,” 2.
36 Corry interview.
37 Wightman, “Battle Narrative,” 3.
12: FIGHT TO THE DEATH
1 Michael Reynolds, Steel Inferno: I SS Panzer Corps in Normandy (New York: Dell Publishing, 1997), 95.
2 Howard Margolian, Conduct Unbecoming: The Story of the Murder of Canadian Prisoners of War in Normandy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998), 71–73.
3 Terry Copp, Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003), 72.
4 Kurt Meyer, Grenadier (Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz, 1994), 125.
5 Ibid., 126.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Jean E. Portugal, We Were There: The Navy, the Army and the RCAF—A Record for Canada, vol. 2 (Shelburne, ON: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1998), 912.
9 Hubert Meyer, The History of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision “Hitlerjugend” (Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, 1994), 55.
10 G.W.L. Nicholson, The Gunners of Canada, vol. 2 (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972), 282.
11 Hubert Meyer, 55.
12 Ibid., 55.
13 Ibid.
14 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 2, 836–839.
15 Richard M. Ross, The History of the 1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (MG), (n.p., n.d.), 45.
16 N.a., “Memorandum of Interview with Lt. Col. F.M. Matheson, OC, Regina Rif. by Historical Offr, 24 Jun. 44,” 145.2R11011(4), Directorate of History, Department of National Defence, 3.
17 Ibid.
18 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 2, 881.
19 “Memorandum of Interview with Lt. Col. Matheson,” 3.
20 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 2, 839–43.
21 Kurt Meyer, 126–27.
22 Portugal, 843–55.
23 Hubert Meyer, 57.
24 “Memorandum of Interview with Lt. Col. Matheson,” 4.
25 Stewart A.G. Mein, Up the Johns! The Story of the Royal Regina Rifles (North Battleford, SK: Turner-Warwick Publications, 1992), 115.
26 Ross, 45.
27 3rd Canadian Anti-Tank Regiment War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, 3.
13: POTENTIAL MENACE REMOVED
1 N.a., “The Royal Canadian Navy’s Part in the Invasion,” Directorate of History, Department of National Defence, 220.
2 C. Anthony Law, White Plumes Astern: The Short, Daring Life of Canada’s MTB Flotilla (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1989), 80–81.
3 “The Royal Canadian Navy’s Part in the Invasion,” 221.
4 Law, 85.
5 “The Royal Canadian Navy’s Part in the Invasion,” 221.
6 Ibid., 157.
7 Joseph Schull, Far Distant Ships: An Official Account of Canadian Naval Operations in World War II (Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1991), 296.
8 Ibid.
9 “The Royal Canadian Navy’s Part in the Invasion,” 196–97.
10 Ibid., 198.
11 Michael Whitby, “Masters of the Channel Night: The 10th Destroyer Flotilla’s Victory Off Ile De Batz, 9 June 1944,” Canadian Military History, vol. 2, no. 1, 1993, 7–8.
12 Ibid., 9.
13 “The Royal Canadian Navy’s Part in the Invasion,” 162.
14 Ibid., 163.
15 Whitby, 5.
16 Schull, 287–88.
17 “The Royal Canadian Navy’s Part in the Invasion,” 164.
18 Whitby, 8.
19 “The Royal Canadian Navy’s Part in the Invasion,” 164–66.
20 Ibid., 169.
21 Whitby, 13.
22 “The Royal Canadian Navy’s Part in the Invasion,” 172.
23 Whitby, 13.
24 Don Cheney, interview by Glen Cook, 16 November 2000, Ottawa, Canadian War Museum Oral History Project Collection.
14: WITH RAGE AND SORROW
1 Carlo D’Este, Decision in Normandy: The Unwritten Story of Montgomery and the Allied Campaign (London: Penguin Books, 2001), 164.
2 Michael Reynolds, Steel Inferno: I SS Panzer Corps in Normandy (New York: Dell Publishing, 1997), 104.
3 D’Este, 166.
4 Ibid.
5 Hubert Meyer, The History of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision “Hitlerjugend” (Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, 1994), 58.
6 Reynolds, 103.
7 Ibid.
8 Meyer, 58.
9 A. Brandon Conron, A History of the First Hussars Regiment, 1856–1980 (n.p., 1981), 66.
10 Meyer, 58–59.
11 Reynolds, 102.
12 Meyer, 59.
13 Alex McKee, Caen: Anvil of Victory (London: Souvenir Press, 1964), 84–85.
14 Lt. Col. F.N. Cabeldu, “Battle Narrative of the Normandy Assault and First Counter-Attack,” 145.2C4013(D2), Directorate of History, Department of National Defence, 4.
15 Reginald Roy, Ready for the Fray: The History of the Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s) 1920 to 1955 (Vancouver: Evergreen Press, 1958), 239.
16 Pte. R.H. Tutte, “The Advance, Occupation and Holding of the Bridge at Putot-en-Bessen As I Saw It,” Appendix to Canadian Scottish War Diary, June 1944, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
17 Ibid.
18 N.a., “War Diary ‘A’ Coy. I C. Scot R.,” Appendix to Canadian Scottish Regiment War Diary, June 1944, Library and Archives Canada, 2.
19 Tutte, n.p.
20 “War Diary ‘A’ Coy. I C. Scot R.,” 3.
21 Tutte, n.p.
22 “War Diary ‘A’ Coy. I C. Scot R.,” 3.
23 Ibid.
24 Roy, 239–40.
25 Tutte, n.p.
26 Ibid.
27 Capt. P.F. Ramsay, “Battle Narrative: ‘B’ Coy, 1 C Scot R,” 145.2C4(D6), Directorate of History, Department of National Defence, 5.
28 Maj. L.J. Henderson, “‘D’ Coy Activities at Putot
-en-Besson Bridge, 9 June 44,” 1 C.Scot.R, Appendix to Canadian Scottish Regiment War Diary, June 1944, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
29 Roy, 239–40.
30 “War Diary ‘A’ Coy. I C. Scot R.,” 3.
31 Cabeldu, 4.
32 Robert Lowder Seaborn, interview by Cameron Falconer, 23 February 1983, University of Victoria Special Collections.
33 “Letter written by Fred to Cousin Arne in Canada,” Robert Lowder Seaborn and Family Papers, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
34 Seaborn interview.
35 Ibid.
15: TOO GREAT A RISK
1 W.R. Freasby, ed., Official History of the Canadian Medical Services, 1939–1945, Vol. 1: Organization and Campaigns (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1956), 221–23.
2 Bill McAndrew and Terry Copp, Battle Exhaustion: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Canadian Army, 1939–1945 (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University, 1990), 111.
3 Ibid., 112.
4 Ibid., 113.
5 Freasby, 223–24.
6 Bill McAndrew, Donald E. Graves, and Michael Whitby, Normandy 1944: The Canadian Summer (Montreal: éditions Art Global, 1994), 58.
7 Joseph Greenblatt Correspondence, June 10, 1944, Archival Collection CN: 19990209–002, DOCS MANU 58A 1 155.3–6, Canadian War Museum.
8 Freasby, 225–26.
9 Kurt Meyer, Grenadier (Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz, 1994), 128.
10 Roger Chevalier, interview by author, Courseulles-sur-Mer, 23 May 2003.
11 Le Régiment de la Chaudière War Diary, June 1944 (trans. Tony Poulin from RG24, Library and Archives Canada), in possession of the author, n.p.
12 3rd Canadian Infantry Division GSWar Diary, June 1944, Appendix Jacket No. 1 Message Log, RG24, Library and Archives Canada.
13 Le Régiment de la Chaudière War Diary.
14 George V. Eckenfelder, interview by Tom Torrie, 7 August 1987, University of Victoria Special Collections.
15 Ibid.
16 Alex McKee, Caen: Anvil of Victory (London: Souvenir Press, 1964), 85.
17 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, message log.
18 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
19 Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, 8.
20 Jean E. Portugal, We Were There: The Navy, the Army and the RCAF—A Record for Canada, vol. 2 (Shelburne, ON: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1998), 913.
21 13th Field Regiment War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, 4.
22 Col. C.P. Stacey, The Victory Campaign: The Operations in North-West Europe, 1944–1945, vol. 3 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1960), 138.
23 3rd Canadian Infantry Division War Diary, message logs.
24 Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
25 Highland Light Infantry War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid.
16: FIX BAYONETS
1 Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
2 William Boss, Up the Glens: Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, 1783–1994 (Cornwall, ON: Old Book Store, 1995), 187.
3 Jean E. Portugal, We Were There: The Navy, the Army and the RCAF—A Record for Canada, vol. 3 (Shelburne, ON: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1998), 1460.
4 Boss, 188.
5 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 3, 1312.
6 Ibid., 1311.
7 Boss, 188.
8 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 3, 1383.
9 Alex McKee, Caen: Anvil of Victory (London: Souvenir Press, 1964), 85.
10 Walter Warlimont, Inside Hitler’s Headquarters, 1939–45 (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1964), 427–29.
11 Michael Reynolds, Steel Inferno: I SS Panzer Corps in Normandy (New York: Dell Publishing, 1997), 103.
12 Hans von Luck, Panzer Grenadier: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1989), 145.
13 Ibid., 145–46.
14 John A. Willes, Out of the Clouds: The History of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion (Perry, ON: Port Perry Printing, 1995), 85.
15 Maj. John P. Hanson, “Canadian Para Bn Corres re Ops 1st Cdn Para Bn from various officers,” 145.4013(D5), Directorate of History, Department of National Defence, 3.
16 Willes, 86.
17 Brian Nolan, Airborne: The Heroic Story of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion in the Second World War (Toronto: Lester Publishing, 1995), 106.
18 Ibid., 106–107.
19 John R. Madden, recorded recollections, 1987, University of Victoria Special Collections.
20 Ibid.
21 Willes, 86–87.
22 Dan Hartigan, A Rising of Courage: Canada’s Paratroops in the Liberation of Normandy (Calgary: Drop Zone Publishers, 2000), 220.
17: GETTING NOWHERE
1 Col. C.P. Stacey, The Victory Campaign: The Operations in North-West Europe, 1944–1945, vol. 3 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1960), 138.
2 Chris Vokes, Vokes: My Story (Ottawa: Gallery, 1985), 147.
3 Ernest Côté, interview by Michael Boire, Ottawa, 14 November 2003.
4 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
5 Ibid., n.p.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Dan Hartigan, A Rising of Courage: Canada’s Paratroops in the Liberation of Normandy (Calgary: Drop Zone Publishers, 2000), 219–22.
11 Napier Crookenden, Dropzone Normandy: The Story of the American and British Airborne Assaults on D-Day, 1944 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1976), 263.
12 North Nova Scotia Highlanders War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
13 Ibid.
14 Harold Bertrand Gonder, interview by Mark C. Hill, 23 July and 7, 8, 9 August 1985, University of Victoria Special Collections.
15 Reginald Roy, Ready for the Fray: The History of the Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s) 1920 to 1955 (Vancouver: Evergreen Press, 1958), 241–42.
16 Ibid.
17 Hubert Meyer, The History of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision “Hitlerjugend” (Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, 1994), 61.
18 Michael Reynolds, Steel Inferno: I SS Panzer Corps in Normandy (New York: Dell Publishing, 1997), 106.
19 Regina Rifles War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
20 Dave McIntosh, High Blue Battle: The War Diary of No. 1 (401) Fighter Squadron, RCAF (Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1990), 148.
21 Jean E. Portugal, We Were There: The Navy, the Army and the RCAF—A Record for Canada, vol. 7 (Shelburne, ON: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1998), 3277–78.
22 Ralph Bennett, Ultra in the West: The Normandy Campaign, 1944–45 (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1979), 74.
23 Clarence R. Dunlap, interview by Chris Bell, 1, 10, 17 March and 21 April 1983, University of Victoria Special Collections.
24 Max Hastings, Overlord: D-Day and the Battle For Normandy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984), 174.
25 Bennett, 75.
26 Reynolds, 106–108.
18: ATTACK AT ONCE
1 Michael Reynolds, Steel Inferno: I SS Panzer Corps in Normandy (New York: Dell Publishing, 1997), 108.
2 Ibid.
3 Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
4 3rd Canadian Infantry Division GSWar Diary, June 1944, Appendix Jacket No. 1 Message Log, RG24, Library and Archives Canada.
5 Ibid.
6 J. Allan Snowie, Bloody Buron: The Battles of Buron Normandy—08 July 1944 (Erin, ON: The Boston Mills Press, 1984), 38.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid., 39.
9 3rd Canadian Infantry Division GSWar Diary, Message Log.
10 Snowie, 39.
11 Highland Light Infantry War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, 15.
12 Michael R. McNorgan, “Black Sabbath for the First Hussars: Action at Le Mesnil Patry, 11 June 1944,” Fighting for Canada: Seven Battles, 1758–1945, ed. Donald E. Graves (Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2000), 282.
13 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
14 3rd Canadian Infantry Division GSWar Diary, Message Log.
15 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade War Diary, n.p.
16 1st Hussars War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, 6.
17 A. Brandon Conron, A History of the First Hussars Regiment, 1856–1980 (n.p., 1981), 67.
18 Michael R. McNorgan, “Black Sabbath for the First Hussars: Action at Le Mesnil Patry, 11 June 1944,” Fighting for Canada: Seven Battles, 1758–1945, ed. Donald E. Graves (Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2000), 281–282.
19 Jean E. Portugal, We Were There: The Navy, the Army and the RCAF—A Record for Canada, vol. 3 (Shelburne, ON: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1998), 1447.
20 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade War Diary, n.p.
21 1st Hussars War Diary, 6.
22 Queen’s Own Rifles War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
23 W.T. Barnard, The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, 1860–1960: One Hundred Years of Canada (Don Mills, ON: The Ontario Publishing Company Limited, 1960), 201.
24 N.a., “Interview with Major J.H. Gordon, Queen’s Own Rifles,” Directorate of History, Department of National Defence, 2.
25 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 3, 1473.
26 N.a., Vanguard: The Fort Garry Horse in the Second World War (Doetincham, Holland: Uitgevers-Maatschappij, D. Misset, NV, n.d), 138.
27 Hubert Meyer, The History of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision “Hitlerjugend” (Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, 1994), 69.
28 Ibid.
29 N.a., “46th Royal Marine Commandos, 6–12 June 1944,” PRO DEFE2/977 Public Records Office, London, n.p.
30 Vanguard, 139.
31 Fort Garry Horse War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Appendix No. 1, Library and Archives Canada, 6.
32 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 3, 1474.
