Donald E. Graves - Blood and Steel: The Wehrmacht Archive Normandy 1944

Panzer Divisions on the Western Front, 6 June 1944 1; Order of Commanding Officer, 46th Luftwaffe Field Regiment, 16th Luftwaffe Field Division, Prior to Going into Action, 2 July 1944 5; Battle Experience, 3rd Parachute Division, July 1944 7; Report on Battle Experience, 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg, July 1944 14; German Experience of the Invasion Battles 20; Battle Experience of Recent Operations by 2nd Panzer Division, Whose Sector Is Being Taken Over by 36th Infantry Division 22; Diary of 1st Platoon, 5th Company, 1st SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment, 1st SS Panzer Division, 9 July to 29 July 1944 30; Lack of Radio Discipline, July 1944 33; Operation Order, 1056 Grenadier Regiment, 89th Infantry Division, 4 August 1944 33; Fhrers Orders to the Commander of the St. Malo Garrison, 9 August 1944 36; Order for Deployment, 85th Infantry Division, 12 August 1944 37; Report of the Strength of the Divisional Formations under the Command of Seventh Army, 31 July 1944 38; Appreciation of the Situation of Seventh Army, 10 August 1944 40; Allied Evaluation of the Combat Worthiness of 12th SS Panzer Division Hitler Jugend, 18 August 1944 41

The Enemy Has Landed: Seventh Army Attempts to Deal with the Invasion, 6 June to 11 June 1944 44; Feldmarschall von Kluge Deals with Operation Cobra, 31 July 50; The End in Normandy: Telephone Log of Seventh Army, 6 August to 7 August 1944 54; Fifth Panzer Army Defends against Operation TOTALIZE 81

Diary of Private Bucher, 264th Infantry Division, November 1943 to 3 September 1944 86; Extracts from Diary of a Panzerschtze of 4th Company, I Battalion, Panzer Regiment 88, 21st Panzer Division, 7 June to 13 July 1944 89; Extracts from the Diary of Obergefreiter Norbert Ohe, 9 Troop, 276 Artillery Regiment, 276th Infantry Division, 15 August to 19 August 1944 91; Extracts from the Diary of a Medical Sergeant, 17 August to 22 August 1944 92; Diary of Sergeant W. Krey of 732 Grenadier Regiment, 712th Infantry Division, 31 August to 30 September 1944 93; Extracts from the Diary of an Unidentified Corporal, 4th Company, Grenadier Regiment, 719th Infantry Division, 25 August to 17 September 1944 94; Extracts from the Diary of an Officer, Boulogne Garrison, 7 September to 19 September 1944 99; To the Bitter End: The Last Hours in the Falaise Pocket 103

Letters Home, July 1944 105; From a Letter of Obergefreiter W. Doehla, FPN 43769B, Dated 18 August 1944 107; Letter to Private Alfred Nikolaus, FPN 23289, From his Brother in Strasburg 107; Letters from German Soldiers to Their People at Home 108; Letters Home, Late August 1944 110; Letters from Home, April to June 1944 113; Letters from Home, September 1944 115

Panzer Group West, Directions for Conducting Battles 117

Defensive Tactics, 38th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment, 17th SS Panzer Grenadier Division, July 1944 121; Orders of 22nd SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment, 10th SS Panzer Division, July 1944, Regarding the Manning of a Defence Line 122; General Principles for the Officer Commanding a Panzer Grenadier Company (Motorized), Extracted from a Pamphlet Issued by the Inspector-General of Panzer Troops, 12 June 1944 124; Battalion Orders for Defence, II Battalion, 980 Grenadier Regiment, 272nd Infantry Division, 15 July 1944 125; Tactical Handling of Volksgrenadier Divisions, September 1944 127

Achtung! Panzerfaust 129; Care in Firing Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck 130; How to Use the Panzerfaust (Klein) 131; Tactics of 277th Anti-Tank Battalion, 277th Infantry Division 133; Tactics of 326 Artillery Regiment, 326th Infantry Division 134; German 8.1 cm Mortar Tactics, II Battalion, 979 Grenadier Regiment, 271st Infantry Division 135