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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....
Hi All, I have been reading 'Eye Witness D-Day - The Story of the Battle by Those Who Were There' by Jon E. Lewis and wish to share some of the...
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...