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Sources

The National Archives, Kew, London

AIR 20/7703: Translations from Captured Enemy Documents: Vol. IV (1948)

AIR 20/7704: Translations from Captured Enemy Documents: Vol. V (1941–1950)

DEFE 3/448: Intelligence from intercepted German, Italian and Japanese radio communications, WWII (7–11 August 1944)

HW 5/541–553: Government Code and Cypher School: German Section: Reports of German Army and Air Force High Grade Machine Decrypts (CX/FJ, CX/JQ and CX/MSS Reports) (26 July–7 August 1944)

HW 19/276: DEGS Decrypts from all German Sources referring to German Secret Service, issued by VG (possibly Sub-section Vg) at GC&CS for Section V and GC&CS:3 369–3767 (1 July–21 November 1944)

HW 13/39: GNA Vol. XIII, 1130–1250 (1 Apr–31 Jul 1944)

HW 13/40: GNA Vol. XIV, 1251–1312 (1 Aug–1 Oct 1944)

WO 171/70: Air Defense (June 1944–February 1945)

Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg-im-Breisgau

RL 2-II/5: Gen. Stab / Lw. Führungsstab, Anlagen zum KTB, Band 1/1 (Nov. 1943–Mai 1944)

RL 2-IV/40: Invasions-Kalender Normandie 1. Juli 1944 bis 1. Aug. 1944 (Durchbruch bei Avranches) (5 December 1944)

RL 8/77: Einsatz gegen Seeziele im Atlantik, Mittelmeer und an der Invasionsfront.- Nachkriegsausarbeitung

RM 7/101: OKM/Seekriegsleitung, Bd. 19: Kriegstagebuch Bd. 11 (Juli 1944–Jan. 1945)

Online

https://www.memoirenormande.fr/Médias-Scène-de-rue-à-Avranches-614-11705-258-0.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/45/a4040245.shtml

http://www.archeosousmarine.net/Pdf/cato-report-nov-2018.pdf

http://www.pontaubault.fr/Pontaubault-Objectif-strategique

https://www.normandyamericanheroes.com/blog/blog-2/private-first-class-weldon-e.-mcclane-wia-at-gavray-sur-sienne

https://www.dday-overlord.com/bataille-normandie/communes/manche/gavray

https://www.fold3.com/image/301322075

https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t2452/17?r=1&s=5

https://www.pegasusarchive.org/normandy/frames.htm

Kriegstagebuch der Seekriegsleitung: https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-zmsbw/solrsearch/index/search/searchtype/series/id/1/rows/10

British Admiralty War Diary: https://www.fold3.com/image/301322595

Further reading

Ulf Balke: Der Luftkrieg in Europa, Band 2 (Bernard & Graefe, 1990) ISBN 3-7637-5884-4

Chris Goss: Luftwaffe Hit-and-Run Raiders: Nocturnal Fighter-Bomber Operations Over the Western Front, 1943-1945 (Classic, 2009) ISBN 9781903223994

Jan Horn: Das Flurschaden-Geschwader: Die Chronik des Kampfgeschwaders 51 »Edelweiss« zwischen dem 1. Januar 1944 bis Kriegsende (self-published, 2010) ISBN 978-3-00-031565-7

Siegfried Radtke: Kampfgeschwader 54: von der Ju 52 zur Me 262 — Eine Chronik nach Kriegstagebüchern, Dokumenten und Berichten 1935–1945 (Schild Verlag, 1990)

Jean-Louis Roba: La Kampfgeschwader 100 — L’escadre au Drakkar (1938–1944) (Éditions LÉLA PRESSES, 2015) ISBN 2-914017-82-4

Peter Taghon: La Lehrgeschwader 1, l’Escadre au Griffon (Éditions LELA Presse, 2020) ISBN 978-2-37468-030-9

Peter Taghon: La Kampfgeschwader 6 (Éditions LELA Presse, 2021) ISBN 978-2-37468-039-2

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