Quotation - on the 2nd June 1944, when Maj Gen Gale, the Divisional Commander, visited the 9th Parachute Battalion at RAF Broadwell, he received an enthusiastic reception and said of Normandy, "The Hun thinks only a bloody fool will go there. That's why I'm going!"
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Bibliography
sources for further reading
- With the 6th Airborne Division in Normandy; R.N. Gale 1948
- Dropzone Normandy; Napier Crookenden 1976 ISBN 0-684-14559-2
- Red Beret; Hilary St George Saunders 1950
- Red Berets into Normandy; Huw Wheldon 1982 ISBN 0-7117-0032-X
- Go To It; Peter Harclerode 1990 ISBN 1-84067-136-X
- Red Devils in Normandy; Georges Bernage 2002 ISBN 2-8048-159-6
- One Night in June; Kevin Shannon & Stephen Wright 1994 ISBN 1-84037-183-8
- Pegasus Bridge; Stephen Ambrose 1985 ISBN 0-671-67156-1
- Prelude to Glory; Maurice Newnham - published by Sampson Lowe Marston & Co
- Orne Bridgehead; Lloyd Clark 2004; ISBN 0-7509-3009-8
- The Pegasus and Orne bridges; Neil Barber 2009; ISBN 978-184-884-0416
- Airborne Armour; Keith Flint 2004; ISBN 1-874622-37-X
- The Big Drop; John Golley 1982; ISBN 0-7106-0193X
- Assault on the Guns of Merville; Alan Jefferson 1987; ISBN 0-7195-4423-8
- The Day the Devils Dropped In; Neil Barber 2002; ISBN 0-85052-924-7
- The Pegasus Diaries; The Private Papers of Major John Howard; Penny Bates 2006; ISBN 978-1-84415-446-3
- Fighting Brigadier: The Life of Brigadier James Hill DSO** MC; Peter Harclerode 2010; ISBN 978-1848842144
more to follow .......
