Chapter XXIX
The Liberation of ParisFootnotes
1. Bradley, Soldier's Story, p. 384.
2. PS SHAEF (44) 11 (Final), SHAEF Plng Staff, Post-NEPTUNE, Courses of Action After Capture of the Lodgment Area, Sec. II: Method of Conducting the Campaign, 30 May, SGS SHAEF File 381, Post-OVERLORD Plng.
3. CCS to Eisenhower, W-42278, 27 May, SGS SHAEF File 014.1, Civil Affairs in Northwest Europe, I; PS SHAEF (44) 11 (Second Preliminary Draft), Post-NEPTUNE Opns, 22 Jul, SHAEF File 18008, Post-OVERLORD Plng, G-3 Plans.
4. Msg, Eisenhower to Koenig, SGS SHAEF War Diary, 5 Aug; Adrien Dansette, L'Histoire de la Liberation de Paris (Paris, c. 1946) (hereafter cited as Dansette, Liberation de Paris), pp. 70-78. Dansette is a basic source for this chapter. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe, p. 296; Bradley, Soldier's Story, pp. 384-87; 21 AGp Gen Operational Situation and Dir, M-519, 20 Aug; Montgomery, Normandy to the Baltic, p. 176; PS SHAEF (44) n, Post-NEPTUNE Opns (First Draft), 12 Aug, Final, 17 Aug, SHAEF File 18008, G-3 Plans.
5. Pogue, Supreme Command, p. 241, and Ltr, Pogue to author, 28 Nov 54, OCMH Files.
6. PS SHAEF (44) 11 (Second Preliminary Draft), Post-NEPTUNE Opns, 22 Jul, SHAEF File 18008, Post-OVERLORD Plng, G-3 Plans.
7. OB WEST, a Study in Command (pp. 136, 138, 142ff., and 155) is a useful source.
8. MS # B-034 (Schramm) and Choltitz, Soldat unter Soldaten, pp. 219-73, are basic sources; see also MS # A-967 (Boineburg-Lengsfeld), MS # B-611 (Hesse), and MS # B-741 (Ziegelmann).
9. Msg, Hitler to Choltitz, OB WEST KTB, Anlage 1219; OB WEST KTB, 8 Aug.
10. OB WEST KTB, 11 Aug; MS # B-732 (Hold); MS # B-728 (Emmerich); Interrogation of Col Paul Krause, Mil Comdr East Paris, FUSA PWI Rpt 12, 29 Aug (hereafter cited as Krause Interrogation), FUSA (Tactical Echelon) G-3 File.
11. MS # B-015 (Boineburg); OB WEST KTB, 8 Aug.
12. OB WEST KTB, Anlagen 1241, 1298 (OB WEST Msg, 2115, 11 Aug), 1322 (OB WEST Msg, 1140, 12 Aug), and 1323 (OB WEST ltr, 12 Aug); Hitler Order, WFSt/Op. Nr. 772830/44, g.Kdos., Chefs, 11 Aug, quoted in Msg, AGp B to the armies, 0030, 12 Aug, AGp B Fuehrer Befehle.
13. Danke Telecon, 1400, 16 Aug, OB WEST KTB; Msg, OB WEST to OKW, roem Ia Nr. 6946/44 gen.Kdos., 0400, 17 Aug, OB WEST KTB, Anlage 1483; MS # B-732 (Hold); MS # B-728 (Emmerich); Kluge Msg, 1230, 17 Aug, and Speidel Msg, 1945, 18 Aug, AGp B Op. Befehle, folios 321 and 336; OB WEST KTB, Anlage 1628.
15. See XII Corps G-2 Per Rpt, 19 Aug, XII Corps AAR, Aug.
16. The following account is from Dansette, Liberation de Paris, and Participation of the French Forces of the Interior in the Liberation of France, a MS prepared by French Resistance Unit, ETOUSA Hist Sec, 1944 and 1945, OCMH Files, Pt II, Ch. II, Sec. 6, (hereafter cited as Resistance Unit, Liberation of Paris).
17. See App. A to Annex Rpt, French Resistance, 19 Apr, JIC Papers, Pogue Files.
18. See studies, Ltrs, and Msgs in SGS SHAEF File 373/2, Employment of Airborne Forces in Opn OVERLOOK, particularly those dated 21 and 23 Jun, 15 and 23 Jul, and 2 Aug.
19. SHAEF/17245/6.5/20PS (A), Operational Dir to CG FFI, 15 Jun, SHAEF File G-5/702, Dirs, France; Notes of Decisions Made at a Mtg Held at SHAEF, 10 Jul; Min of Mtg, 14 Jul; Gen Eisenhower to Brig Gen William J. Donovan, FWD-12464, 26 Jul; AFHQ, Comd and Operational Employment of the FFI, 29 Jul; Etat Major des Forces Francaises de l'Interieur, Twelfth Monthly Progress Rpt to SHAEF Aug 44, 10 Sep. Last five in SGS SHAEF File 322, FFI. SGS SHAEF War Diary, 15 Jul.
20. Min of Mtg, 14 Jul, SGS SHAEF File 322, FFI.
21. See SHAEF/17245/6/5/2/Ops (A), Operationl Dir to CG FFI, 15 Jun, SHAEF File G-5/702, Dirs, France.
22. Resistance Unit, Liberation of Paris, p. 1244 (see pp. 1242-44, and Dansette, Liberation de Paris, pp. 139-46 for detailed account); Ministerial Counselor Eckelmann's Rpt to OKW/Abwicklungsstab/Rudolfsstadt, 31 Jan 45, Rpt D-32 (hereafter cited as Eckelmann, Rpt to OKW), OCMH Files. Eckelmann assisted Choltitz in Paris, was taken prisoner during the liberation, and was apparently released and repatriated.
24. See Rundstedt's Est of the Situation, 25 Oct 43; Der Oberbefehlshaber West, Ia Nr. 550/43 g.Kdos, Chefs, 28.10.43, Beurteilung der Lage Ob. West am 25.10.1943, Sec. K, Innere Lage, in Bavarian State Archives, Munich, Germany.
25. Choltitz, Soldat unter Soldaten, p. 252.
26. Choltitz Rpt, cited in OB WEST KTB, 23 Aug, Anlage 1646.
28. Krause Interrogation; Telecon, 1900, 20 Aug, AGp B KTB; Telecons, 21-24 Aug, AGp B KTB, particularly Blumentritt and Tempelhoff, 1745, 21 Aug; Choltitz, Soldat unter Soldaten, pp. 252-53.
29. Hitler Order, 20 Aug; Msg, FHQu, 20 Aug, OKW/WFSt/Op. Nr. 772056/44, in OKW/175; Msg, Model to Jodl, 1800, 21 Aug, AGp B Fuehrerbefehle; MS # B-034 (Schramm).
30. Hitler Order, 20 Aug; OB WEST and AGp B KTB's, 21 Aug.
31. Hitler Msg, quoted in full in Msg, OB WEST to AGp B, 1100, 23 Aug, AGp B Fuehrerbefehle. Choltitz (Soldat unter Soldaten, pp. 255-59) and Schramm (MS # B-034) date Hitler's order as 22 August, and it is possible that some commanders received the substance of the message before the official reception and recording of it. The AGp B KTB reports the order in an entry at 1030, 23 August.
32. See Resistance Unit, Liberation of Paris, passim and annexes, for Resistance messages from Paris to the exterior.
33. See Rousseau, Bataille de Normandie, pp. 204-05 for an account of French pressure on Eisenhower.
34. Detailed accounts are found in Dansette, Liberation de Paris, pp. 320-24, and in Resistance Unit, Liberation of Paris, pp. 1251, 1255.
35. Ltr, Gen Morgan (Deputy Chief of Staff, SHAEF) to French Forces in London, 7 Mar, quoted in Resistance Unit, Liberation of Paris, p. 1236; Pogue, Supreme Command, p. 239; SH/3244/Sec, Employment of French Forces in Continental Opns, 19 Jan, one of many documents on this matter in SGS SHAEF File 381, French, I.
36. Even, La 2e D.B., p. 114, n. 9.
37. Ltr, de Gaulle to Eisenhower, 21 Aug, SGS SHAEF File 092, French Relations; Pogue, Supreme Command, p. 240; Interv by Pogue with de Gaulle, 14 Jan 47, and Butcher Diary, 11 Jul, Pogue Files.
38. Telecon, Gaffey and Menoher, 1715, 14 Aug, and Ltr, Leclerc to Patton [16 Aug], XV Corps CofS Jnl and File.
39. Quoted in Dansette, Liberation de Paris, p. 310.
40. Notes [16 or 17 Aug], XV Corps CofS Jnl and File.
41. 12th AGp Memo for Rcd, 19 Aug, ML-205.
42. Ltr, Leclerc to Gerow [20 Aug]; Msgs, Gerow to Leclerc, 2045, 20 Aug, 1400, 21 Aug; V Corps Dir, 21 Aug, and Ltrs of Instrs, 21 and 22 Aug. All in V Corps G-3 Jnl and File. Unless otherwise noted, documents hereafter cited in this chapter are in the V Corps G-3 Jnl and File.
44. Quoted in Dansette, Liberation de Paris, pp. 211-18.
45. See Rousseau, Bataille de Normandie, pp. 20405.
46. Ltr, Koenig to Leclerc, # 2039, 11 Aug, cited in Even, La 2e D.B., p. 114, n. 9.
47. Even, La 2e D.B., pp. 114-16; Etat Major des Forces Francaises de l'Interieur, Twelfth Monthly Progress Rpt to SHAEF Aug 44, 10 Sep 44, SGS SHAEF File 322, FFI.
48. Quoted in Dansette, Liberation de Paris, p. 313.
49. Dir, Gerow to Leclerc, 22 Aug, with handwritten note; Even, La 2e D.B., p. 116; Dansette, Liberation de Paris, p. 314; Ltr, Gerow to OCMH, 22 Sep 54.
50. This is Dansette's thesis (see Liberation de Paris, pp. 138-39, 293-94); see also Resistance Unit, Liberation of Paris.
51. See, for example, V Corps G-2 Jnl, entries 2100, 20 Aug, and 2100, 1 Aug.
52. Patton, War as I Knew It, pp. 115, 117.
53. Bradley, Solder's Story, pp. 390-91, is in error because of an incorrect time sequence.
54. Resistance Unit, Liberation of Paris, p. 1253.
55. Handwritten note by General Eisenhower on Ltr, de Gaulle to Eisenhower, 21 Aug, SGS SHAEF File 092, French Relations; see Pogue, Supreme Command, p. 240, and V Corps G-3 Memo, 21 Aug.
56. Pogue, Supreme Command, pp. 239, 241.
57. Resistance Unit, Liberation of Paris, p. 1250; Pogue, Supreme Command, p. 231.
58. Ltr, Eisenhower to Marshall, CPA-90235, 22 Aug, SHAEF G-3 File Ops A 322.011/1, Comd and Contl of U.S./Br Forces.
59. Ltr, de Gaulle to Eisenhower, 21 Auf (and handwritten note); Bradley, Soldier's Story, p. 386; Pogue, Supreme Command, p. 240; Dansette, Liberation de Paris, p. 316.
60. Memo dictated by Bradley for Hodges, 22 Aug, transmitted by Hodges to Haislip and Gerow, XV Corps CofS Jnl and File. The memo is also Incl 1 of V Corps FO 21, 23 Aug, and a photostatic copy appears in V Corps Operations in the ETO, p. 200. This document contains all the information then known by the Allied command on the situation in Paris.
61. Ltr, Bradley to OCMH, 7 Jan 55, OCMH Files; Interv by Pogue with Gen Bradley, 6 Nov 46, Washington, D.C., Pogue Files.
62. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe, p. 296.
63. Ltr, Bradley to OCMH, 7 Jan 55; FUSA Memo, Info [to be Elicited from the German Commandant of Paris, 31 Aug, FUSA G-2 Jnl and File; Ltr, Pogue to author, 27 Sep 54, OCMH Files; Dansette, Liberation de Paris, pp. 138-39.
64. V Corps Operations in the ETO, p. 198; Bradley, Soldier's Story, p. 387; 21 AGp/5541/2/Q (Plans), Development of British Advance Base in Area Havre-Rouen-Dieppe, 22 Aug, 12th AGp File, Mil Objs, II.
65. [Lt.-Col. Repiton-Preneuf et al.], La 2e db, General Leclerc, Combattants et Combats en France (Paris: Aux Editions Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1945), p. 45.
66. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe, p. 296; Bradley, Soldier's Story, p. 391; Ltr, Eisenhower to Marshall, CPA-90235, 22 Aug. SHAEF G-3 File Ops A 322.011/1, Comd and Contl of U.S./Br Forces; Sylvan Diary, 22 Aug.
67. Sylvan Diary, 22 Aug; see Telecons, Gen Kean and Brig Gen Henry J. Matchett, 1720 and 1730, 22 Aug; V Corps G-3 Jnl, entries 1743 and 1745, 22 Aug; V Corps Operations in the ETO, pp. 197ff.
68. Memo dictated by Bradley to Hodges, 22 Aug, XV Corps CofS Jnl and File.
69. See Montgomery, Normandy to the Baltic, p. 176; Notes of Mtg, 0900, 23 Aug, XV Corps CofS Jnl and File; VII Corps Opns Memo 73, 23 Aug (confirming oral orders, 22 Aug).
70. Eisenhower to Marshall, FWD-12428, 22 Jul, Pogue Files.
71. Interv, author with Gen Gerow, Maj Gen Charles G. Helmick (formerly V Corps Arty Comdr), and Brig Gen John G. Hill (formerly V Corps G-3), 15 Oct 54, OCMH Files; Ltr, Gerow to OCMH, 22 Sep 54, OCMH Files.
72. Gerow Memo for Rcd, 25 Aug.
73. V Corps Ltr of Instrs, Gerow to Leclerc, 22 Aug, and Dir, Gerow to 102d Cav Recon Gp (Mecz), 23 Aug; Ltr, Gerow to OCMH, 22 Sep 54, OCMH Files.
74. V Corps Ltr of Instrs, Gerow to Leclerc, 22 Aug, and FO 21, 23 Aug.
75. Choltitz, Soldat unter Soldaten, p. 259; MS # B-728 (Emmerich).
76. Quoted in Dansette, Liberation de Paris, pp. 293-94.
77. Telecon, Choltitz and Model, 1200, 23 Aug, AGp B KTB. His mention of the shortage of rations contrasts with his later statement that he had Eckelmann distribute army food to the French populace. Choltitz, Soldat unter Soldaten, p. 245.
78. Telecon, Choltitz and Speidel, 2215, 23 Aug, AGp B KTB; Choltitz, Soldat unter Soldaten, pp. 256-57.
80. Marcelle Adler-Bresse, "Von Choltitz, a-t-il Change d'Avis?" (a review of Choltitz' Brennt Paris? Tatsachenbericht des letzten deutschen Befehlshabers in Paris (Mannheim: Weltbucherei, 1950) and his Soldat unter Soldaten) and notice of an article in the East Berlin newspaper Tagliche Rundschau, December 28, 1954, both in Revue d'Histoire de la Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale, No. 19 (July, 1955), p. 116; Dietrich von Choltitz, "Pour-quoi en 1944, je n'ai pas detruit Paris," Le Figaro, October 4, 1949; Telecon, Choltitz and Speidel, 2225, 24 Aug, AGp B KTB.
81. Telecon, Choltitz and Speidel, 1100, 25 Aug, AGp B KTB; Eckelmann, Rpt to OKW.
82. MS # B-741 (Ziegelmann), including Sketch # 2b; Eckelmann, Rpt to OKW; Even, La 2e D.B., p. 118; V Corps Operations in the ETO, pp. 200-202; CI 32 (4th Div); 2d French Armored Division G-3 Report, Operations, is a basic source for the military activity of the division.
83. Ltr, Leclerc to de Gaulle, 1330, 23 Aug, reproduced in Even, La 2e D.B., facing p. 118.
84. 2d Fr Armd Div Opns Order, 1800 [23 Aug]; see Even, La 2e D.B., pp. 117-18, and Dansette, Liberation de Paris, pp. 329, 336.
85. Interv with Gerow, Helmick, and Hill, 15 Oct 54, OCMH Files; see Even, La 2 e D.B., p. 118.
86. 2d Fr Armd Div G-2 Rpt, Opns; Even, La 2e D.B., p. 118.
87. See V Corps Arty Jnl, entry 0700, 23 Aug.
88. Msg, Gerow to Barton, 0840, 24 Aug; V Corps Operations in the ETO, p. 203; Dansette, Liberation de Paris, p. 401; Msg, Hodges to Gerow, 1240, 24 Aug; Interv with Gerow, Helmick, and Hill, 15 Oct 54, OCMH Files.
89. See V Corps G-3 Jnl, entry 1520, 24 Aug.
90. Ltr, Gerow to OCMH, 22 Sep 54.
91. Bradley, Soldier's Story, p. 392.
92. Interv with Gerow, Helmick, and Hill, 15 Oct 54. General Gerow was also troubled by reports that French troops were stopping in towns along the way to celebrate with the inhabitants. Sylvan Diary, 23 Aug.
93. Ltr, Gerow to OCMH, 22 Sep 54, and Interv with Gerow, Helmick, and Hill; Msg, Gerow to Leclerc, 24 Aug. Quote is from Bradley, Soldier's Story, p. 392.
94. Ltr, Gen de Gaulle to M. Luizet, 2230, 23 Aug, quoted in Even, La 2e D.B., p., 121; Dansette, Liberation de Paris, pp. 329-30.
95. CI 32 (4th Div); Resistance Unit, Liberation of Paris, p. 1252; 21 AGp Phantom Sitrep, U.S. Armies, 2400, 24 Aug; Even La 2e D.B., p. 131. The losses are through 29 August, but most occurred on 24 August.
96. Bradley, Soldier's Story, p. 392; Ltr, Bradley to OCMH, 7 Jan 55, OCMH Files.
97. Msg, Gerow to Leclerc, 24 Aug; Gerow Memo for Rcd, 24 Aug; Ltr, Gerow to Leclerc, 2345, 24 Aug; Interv by author with Gen Barton, 10 Jun 54, OCMH Files.
98. 2d Fr Armd Div G-3, Rpt, Opns.
99. Even, La 2e D.B., pp. 122-23; Dansette, Liberation de Paris, pp. 334-39; 2d Fr Armd Div G-3 Rpt, Opns; Telecon, Choltitz and Speidel, 2225, 24 Aug, AGp B KTB.
100. Telecons, Choltitz and Speidel, 2225, 24 Aug, and 1100, 25 Aug, AGp B KTB.
101. CI 32 (4th Div); A Short History of the 38th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized) (Prestice, Czechoslovakia, 1945), pp. 15-18; Johnson, History of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment in World War II, pp. 168-71; 4th Div AAR, Aug, and FO 24, 0800, 25 Aug (confirming oral orders, 2400, 24 Aug).
102. Choltitz, Soldat Unter Soldaten, p. 264.
103. Interv with Barton, 10 Jun 54.
l04. The surrender document is reproduced in V Corps Operations in the ETO, p. 204.
105. Even, La 2e D.B., pp. 126-29; Dansette, Liberation de Paris, pp. 349-73; Telecons, Emmerich and Tempelhoff, 2225, 25 Aug, and Feyerband and Speidel, 0810, 26 Aug, AGp B KTB.
[106. FUSA Rpt, 2055, 26 Aug; 4th Div G-2 Per Rpt, 2000, 26 Aug; FUSA AAR, Aug. [107. Sylvan Diary, 29 Aug. [108. V Corps G-3 Jnl and File, 26 Aug. [109. V Corps G-2 Msg, 1303, 26 Aug; Gerow to Hodges, 0010, 26 Aug; V Corps AAR, Aug; Ltr, Gerow to OCMH, 22 Sep 54, and Ltr and attachments, Maj Gen Harold W. Blakeley to author, 30 Sep 55, extracts in OCMH Files; Dansette, Liberation de Paris, p. 420.
110. 2d Fr Armd Div Msg, 26 Aug.
111. Gerow to Leclerc, Orders, 26 Aug; Msg, Gerow to Hodges, 1302, 26 Aug.
112. Msg, 26 Aug, probably from V Corps liaison officer with the French division.
113. Quoted in Dansette, Liberation de Paris, p. 403; see Ltr, Gerow to OCMH, 22 Sep 54.
114. Ltr, Gerow to OCMH, 22 Sep 54; Interv with Barton, 10 Jun 54.
115. MS # C-017 (Speidel); Choltitz, Soldat Unter Soldaten, p. 256.
116. Gerow to Leclerc, 1710, 26 Aug; Leclerc to his subordinate officers, 1720, 26 Aug; V Corps AAR, Aug; Msg, Vissering to SHAEF, 26 Aug, SGS SHAEF File 092, French Relations; Pogue, Supreme Command, p. 242.
117. Even, La 2e D.B., pp. 129-30; Gerow to Leclerc, 0750, 27 Aug, 1020, 28 Aug; V Corps Dirs, 29 Aug.
118. 4th Div AAR, Aug; CI 32 (4th Div).
120. Msg, de Gaulle to Eisenhower, 1915, 26 Aug, SGS SHAEF File 092, French Relations.
121. Pogue, Supreme Command, pp. 242-43; Eisenhower to Montgomery, 26 Aug, and Montgomery to Eisenhower, 0336, 27 Aug, Pogue Files.
122. Butcher Diary, entry 26 Aug, and Ltrs, Eisenhower to Marshall, 22 and 31 Aug, Pogue Files; Eisenhower to de Gaulle, FWD-13336, 28 Aug. SGS SHAEF File 014.1, France; Gerow to Hodges, 0010, 26 Aug; V Corps Operations in the ETO, p. 205; Ltr, Pogue to author, 27 Sep 54, OCMH Files.
123. V Corps AAR, Aug; Interv by author with General Barton; Ltr and attachments from General Blakeley to author; Interv with Gerow, Helmick, and Hill, 15 Oct 54. American engineers eventually opened five express routes through the city.
124. V Corps Operations in the ETO, pp. 208, 211; Sylvan Diary, 29 Aug.
125. Ltrs, Luizet to de Gaulle, 1800, 23 Aug, de Gaulle to Luizet, 2230, 23 Aug, quoted in Even, La 2e D.B., pp. 118-21; Butcher Diary, entry 26 Aug (written by Lt.-Col. James Frederic Gault); see Resistance Unit, Liberation of Paris, p. 1253; Pogue, Supreme Command, p. 242, n. 32; Interv by Pogue with Gen de Gaulle, 14 Jan 47, Pogue Files.
126. Butcher Diary, entry 26 Aug; Msg, Vissering to SHAEF, 28 Aug, SHAEF File 014.1, France, II; Msg, 12th AGp to SHAEF, Q-20323, 12 Aug, and SHAEF Msg, 13070, 21 Aug, SGS SHAEF File 322, FFI.
127. Psychological Warfare Div AEF, Spec Rpt (France) No. 10, FFI, S.824R/I.S. 204, 9 Oct, SGS SHAEF File 322, FFI.
128. Msg, Vissering to SHAEF, 28 Aug, SHAEF File 014.1, France, II; SHAEF/17245/6/5/Ops (C), French Forces of the Interior 22 Jul, SGS SHAEF File 322, FFI; SGS SHAEF War Diary, 22 Jul.
129. Spec Mil Staff of the Supreme Comd of French Forces in Great Britain, Organization of the French Forces of the Resistance, 2.051 EMP/DM, 11 Aug, SGS SHAEF File 322, FFI.
130. Gen de Gaulle, Decision, Ref No. 7 CAB-Mil/PA, 28 Aug, SGS SHAEF File 322, FFI.
131. War Dept, Cabinet, Provisional Govt of the Republic, Memo for the Dept of the Chief of the General Staff, Ref No. 14/CAB, 28 Aug, SGS SHAEF File 322, FFI.
132. Office of the Secretary of War, Decrees of 19 and 20 Sep 44, concerning the Organization of the FFI . . . , excerpts from the "Journal Officiel" of the French Republic, No. 81, 23 Sep, SGS SHAEF File 322, FFI.
133. V Corps Dir, Gerow to Leclerc, 29 Aug, FO 23, 1100, 28 Aug, and AAR, Aug.
134. Pogue, Supreme Command, pp. 242-43; V Corps Operations in the ETO, p. 210.
135. Msg, Vissering to SHAEF, 26 Aug, SGS SHAEF File 014.1, France; see also V Corps Operations in the ETO, p. 198; Ltr, Gerow to OCMH, 22 Sep 54; V Corps AAR, Aug, and G-5 Sec Staff Rpt.
137. Ltr and attachments, Blakely to author, 30 Sep 55, OCMH Files.
138. Ltr. Gerow to OCMH, 22 Sep 54; see Gerow to Hodges, 0010, 26 Aug.
139. The letters are reproduced in V Corps Operations in the ETO, p. 209.
140. Msg, Eisenhower to Marshall, 31 Aug, Pogue Files.
141. Bradley, Soldier's Story, pp. 405-06.
142. Eisenhower to Lee, FWD-15033, 16 Sep, SHAEF File G-3 Ops A, 312.1-2, Dirs to AGps; Pogue, Supreme Command, pp. 320-33; Interv by Pogue with Maj Gen Walter Bedell Smith, Washington, 13 May 47, Pogue Files; see also Ruppenthal, Logistical Support, II, 31-32.
143. V Corps G-5 Staff Sec Rpt, and AAR, Aug; V Corps Operations in the ETO, p. 206; Msg, Vissering to SHAEF, 27 Aug, SGS SHAEF File 014.1, France.
144. De Gaulle to Eisenhower, 1915, 26 Aug, SGS SHAEF File 092, French Relations; Eisenhower to de Gaulle, FWD-133336, 28 Aug, SGS SHAEF File 014.1, France.
145. See below, Ch. XXXII, for a detailed discussion.
146. Msg, EXFOR Rear Movements to COMZ, QM-430, 30 Aug, SGS SHAEF File 014.1, France.
147. Msg, Gen Eisenhower to Asst Secy of War John J. McCloy, FWD-13308, 27 Aug; Gen Bradley to Maj Gen Frank F. Scowden, Q-10373, 27 Aug;
Msg, Gen Eisenhower to Maj Gen John H. Hilldring, S-58600, 28 Aug; SHAEF to 12th AGp (Rear), FWD-13340, 28 Aug; Lee to Scowden, JX-13369, 27 Aug; 12th AGp to SHAEF G-5, Q-10443, 30 Aug; SHAEF Msg, FWD-13411, 30 Aug. All in SGS SHAEF File 014.1, France, II. See also V Corps G-5 Sec Staff Rpt, V Corps AAR, Aug.
148. Adrien Dansette, "Du 19 au 25 aout 1944: Paris se Libere," Miroir de l'Histoire, No. 55 (August, 1954), 151-60; see also Pierre Billotte "10e Anniversaire de la Liberation de Paris," Le Monde, Annee 11, # 2980 (25 August 1954).