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Authors: Timothy M. Gay
54.
AP Boyle memo, July 20, 1943.
55.
AP Boyle column, July 24, 1943.
56.
Ibid.
57.
New York Herald Tribune
, July 31, 1943, p. 1.
58.
Ibid.
59.
Ibid., August 3, 1943, p. 1.
60.
Ibid., August 6, 1943, p. 1.
61.
Ibid., August 7, 1943, p. 1.
62.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, pp. 96–97.
63.
New York Herald Tribune
, August 12, 1943, p. 1.
64.
Ibid.
65.
Ibid.
66.
Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, pp. 164–68.
67.
Ibid., p. 167.
68.
Ibid., pp. 116–19.
69.
Ibid., p. 167.
70.
Ibid., pp. 167–72.
71.
Washington Post
, August 22, 1943, p. M14.
72.
Ibid.
CHAPTER 8
White Crosses Along the Red Rapido
1.
Los Angeles Times
, January 30, 1944, p. 9; and AP Boyle article, datelined January 27, 1944.
2.
Ward and Burns,
The War
, pp. 158–59.
3.
www.texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org/36division/archives.htm
.
4.
Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 331.
5.
Ward and Burns,
The War
, pp. 158–59.
6.
Chicago Daily Tribune
, January 25, 1944, p. 4; and AP Boyle article, datelined January 23, 1944.
7.
“Volkswagon” was Boyle’s spelling.
8.
Atlanta Constitution
, February 1, 1944, p. 6.
9.
Los Angeles Times
, January 30, 1944, p. 9; and AP Boyle article, datelined January 27, 1944.
10.
Hamill, p. 763.
11.
New York Herald Tribune
, March 27, 1944, p. 1.
12.
Miller and Commager,
The Story of World War II
, p. 236.
13.
Ward and Burns,
The War
, caption, p. 152.
14.
Miller and Commager,
The Story of World War II
, p. 225.
15.
Ibid., pp. 217–21.
16.
Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 180.
17.
Wilmot,
The Struggle for Europe
, p. 102.
18.
Chicago Tribune
, September 17, 1943, p. 6.
19.
New York Herald Tribune
, September 16, 1943, p. 1.
20.
Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 231.
21.
New York Herald Tribune
, September 28, 1943, p. 1.
22.
New York Times
, October 3, 1943, p. 1; plus the
Chicago Tribune
, October 3, 1943, p. 1.
23.
Atlanta Constitution
, October 3, 1943, p. 6D.
24.
New York Times
, October 3, 1943, p. 1.
25.
Atlanta Constitution
, October 3, 1943, p. 6D.
26.
Note from AP to Boyle, in Boyle’s personal papers, October 1943.
27.
Baltimore Sun
, October 11, 1943, p. 2.
28.
Atlanta Constitution
, February 17, 1943, p. 1.
29.
Kansas City Star
, January 14, 1944.
30.
Los Angeles Times
, December 5, 1943, p. 23.
31.
New York Herald Tribune
, December 20, 1943, p. 1; also in Wade, pp. 25–34.
32.
John Romeiser, ed.,
Beachhead Don
, p. 84.
33.
Ibid.
34.
Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 279.
35.
New York Herald Tribune
, December 20, 1943, p. 1.
36.
Romeiser, p. 85.
37.
Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 279.
38.
New York Herald Tribune
, December 20, 1943, p. 1.
39.
Ibid.
40.
Ibid.
41.
www.archive.org/details/battle_of_san_pietro
.
42.
Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, pp. 290–93.
43.
Ward and Burns,
The War
, p. 155.
44.
New York Herald Tribune
, February 19, 1944, p. 1; plus Wade, pp. 35–37.
45.
Ward and Burns,
The War
, p. 161.
46.
Ibid.
47.
Ibid., p. 162.
48.
Ibid., p. 164.
49.
Kluger, pp. 369–70.
50.
Quoted in Ward and Burns,
The War
, p. 164.
51.
New York Herald Tribune
, February 19, 1944, p. 1; plus Wade, pp. 35–37.
52.
New York Herald Tribune
, March 9, 1944, p. 1; plus Wade, pp. 38–40.
CHAPTER 9
The Blitz Spirit—London and the Home Front
1.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, February 12, 1944.
2.
Ibid.
3.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, pp. 260–66.
4.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, February 12, 1944.
5.
Wilmot, p. 228.
6.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, February 12, 1944.
7.
Ibid.
8.
Ibid.
9.
AP Boyle column, May 23, 1944.
10.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, p. 216.
11.
Hamill, p. 151.
12.
Ibid., p. 152.
13.
Cronkite and Carleton,
Conversations
, pp. 52–53.
14.
Ibid.,
Conversations
, p. 62.
15.
Ibid., pp. 62–63.
16.
Ibid., p. 63.
17.
Ibid., pp. 63–64.
18.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, p. 217.
19.
Ibid., p. 218.
20.
Ibid., p. 216.
21.
Ibid., p. 219.
22.
Ibid.
23.
Stars and Stripes
, April 2, 1944, p. 1.
24.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, p. 217.
25.
Ibid., p. 226.
26.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 94.
27.
Stars and Stripes
, April 21, 1944, p. 1.
28.
Stars and Stripes
, February 29, 1944, p. 2.
29.
Stars and Stripes
, January 15, 1944, p. 2.
30.
Ibid.
31.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, August 6, 1944.
32.
Oldfield, p. i.
33.
Ibid.
34.
Ibid., p. 65.
35.
Stars and Stripes
, December 1, 1943, p. 3.
36.
Bradley,
A General’s Life
, p. 226.
37.
Hamill, p. 829.
38.
Quoted in Sokolov, p. 161.
39.
Atlanta Constitution
, February 21, 1944, p. 1
40.
Kansas City Star
, February 24, 1944, p. 1.
41.
CBS World News script, Report to the Nation, March 7, 1944, in Boyle’s personal papers.
42.
Kansas City Star
, March 1944 (not certain of exact date).
43.
Kansas City Star
, February 27, 1944, p. 1.
44.
Monica Boyle scrapbook, 1942–1946.
45.
E-mails from and conversations with Ed Boyle, Jr., 2010–2011.
46.
Los Angeles Times
, March 18, 1944.
47.
Blue Pencil
, issue number 37, March 1944, in AP archives, New York.
48.
Ernie’s Pyle’s The Story of G.I. Joe
, United Artists, 1944.
49.
Kansas City Star
, May 18, 1944.
50.
AP memoranda to customers, in Boyle’s personal papers.
51.
Oldfield, p. 75.
52.
Ibid., p. 42.
53.
Letter from Hal to Frances, May 13, 1944.
54.
AP Boyle column, datelined May 23, 1944.
55.
Ibid.
56.
AP Boyle column, May 31, 1944.
57.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, May 14, 1944.
CHAPTER 10
Cherbourg and St.-Lô: Ugly Fighting Among Dead Cattle
1.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 163.
2.
Ibid., p. 160.
3.
Interview with Andy Rooney, April 2011.
4.
Romeiser, p. 149.
5.
Ibid., p. 151.
6.
Ibid., p. 145.
7.
Ibid., p. 146.
8.
Ibid., p. 159.
9.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 164.
10.
Letter from Don Whitehead to Raymond Sokolov, in Liebling’s papers at Cornell.
11.
Ward and Burns,
The War
, p. 226.
12.
Kansas City Star
, June 28, 1944.
13.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 166.
14.
Ibid., pp. 166–68.
15.
Remnick, p. xxi.
16.
Hamill, p. 679.
17.
Ibid, p. 674.
18.
Ward and Burns,
The War
, p. 224.
19.
Cronkite and Carleton,
Conversations
, p. 59.
20.
Letter from Hal to Frances, June 29, 1944.
21.
Kansas City Star
, June 7, 1944.
22.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, June 12, 1944.
23.
Ward and Burns,
The War
, p. 226.
24.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, p. 297.
25.
Kansas City Kansan
, June 17, 1944.
26.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, June 9, 1944 (almost certainly misdated; probably meant “July 9”).
28.
Cronkite could not remember the exact address of his flat on Buckingham Gate. When he returned to London to tape the
City at War
documentary, he did not recognize the specific building. At least one account on the Internet identifies Cronkite’s flat as part of the old Queen Anne’s Mansions near Buckingham Palace, but the author was not able to confirm that.
29.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, June 9, 1944 (almost certainly misdated; probably meant “July 9”).
30.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 172.
31.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, June 9, 1944 (almost certainly misdated; probably meant “July 9”).
32.
Letter from Hal to Frances, June 23, 1944.
33.
New York Times
, July 2, 1944, p. 6.
34.
Los Angles Times
, July 2, 1944, p. 7.
35.
Hamill, p. 894.
36.
Letter from Hal to Frances, June 29, 1944.
37.
Hamill, pp. 894–95.
38.
Ibid.
39.
Ibid., pp. 896–900.
40.
Letter from Hal to Frances, July 12, 1944.
41.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 185.
42.
Ibid., p. 92.
43.
Hamill, p. 881.
44.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 185.
45.
Hamill, p. 498.
46.
Interview with James Hamel and Gilbert Gallez at Vouilly, July 2011.
47.
Hamill, p. 499.
48.
Ibid., p. 881.
49.
Liebling, who prided himself on being able to deduce where people came from after hearing them speak, was wrong on Cota; the great commander was a Main Line Philadelphian.
50.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 172.
51.
Ward and Burns,
The War
, p. 230.
52.
Hamill, p. 505.
53.
Hal Buell,
We Were There: Normandy
, p. 151.
54.
Ibid., p. 152.
55.
Ibid., pp. 205–6.
56.
Ibid.
57.
Hamill, p. 872
58.
Ibid., p. 873.
59.
Ibid., p. 790.
60.
AP Boyle article, datelined July 12, 1944.
62.
Washington Post,
July 15, 1944.
63.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 178.
64.
Hamill, p. 872.
65.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 179.
66.
Ibid.
67.
Kansas City Star
, July 19, 1944.
68.
Hamill, p. 873.
69.
Buell, p. 52.
70.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 180.
71.
Buell, p. 53.
72.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 180.
73.
Buell, p. 53.
74.
Rooney,
My War
, p. 181.
75.
Buell, p. 53.
76.
Hamill, p. 877.
CHAPTER 11
The Breakout—Merci! Merci! Merci!
1.
Jonathan W. Jordan,
Brothers, Rivals, Victors
, caption following p. 366.
2.
Hamill, p. 946.
3.
Ibid., p. 885.
4.
Jordan, p. 357.
5.
Hamill, p. 886.
6.
Ibid., pp. 885–86.
7.
Ibid., p. 945.
8.
Quoted in Miller and Commager,
The Story of World War II
, p. 318.
9.
Hamill, p. 945.
10.
Ibid., p. 947.
11.
Ibid., p. 880.
12.
Ibid., p. 885.