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[edit]- p. 6: Officers and men dressed the same to raise the men's morale and to make it harder for sharpshooters to spot the officers.
- p. 7: quoting Eisenhower from May 1942 about the War and Navy Depts: "not one man in twenty ... realizes what a grisly, dirty, tough business we are in".
- p. 9: "11,000 [US planes] were in the air over France on D-Day".
- p. 18: "on D-Day, 480 B-24s had dropped 1,285 tons of bombs before the landings on Omaha Beach. This performance had been, as Bradley notes, "completely ineffective", the 13000 bombs falling well inland to kill only French civilians and their livestock."
- p. 23: 27 of 32 dual-drive tanks sank with their crews on D-Day.
- p. 25: Slapton Sands