Day of the Panzer:

A Story of American Heroism and Sacrifice in Southern France

 

Jeff Danby

 

   
 

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Listed below are a series of books, articles, and newsreels recommended by the author

for those desiring to learn more about the Allied campaign for southern France...

Books that feature the Southern France Campaign:

Adleman, Robert H., and Colonel George Walton. The Champaign Campaign. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown, and Company, 1969.

 

Breuer, William B. Operation Dragoon.  Novato, California: Presidio Press, 1987.

 

Clark, Jeffrey J., and Robert Ross Smith.   Riviera to the Rhine. Washington D.C.: Center for Military History, 1993.

 

De Trez, Michel. First Airborne Task Force: Pictorial History of the Allied Paratroopers in the Invasion of Southern France. Belgium: D-Day Publishing, 1998.

 

Funk, Arthur L. Hidden Ally: The French Resistance, Special Operations, and the Landings in Southern France, 1944. Greenwood Press, 1992.

 

Gaujac, Paul. August 15, 1944: Dragoon – The Other Invasion of France. Paris, France: Histoire & Collections, 2004.

 

Robichon, Jacques.  The Second D-Day. New York, New York: Walker and Company, 1969.

 

Staiger, Jörg. Rückzug durchs Rhôntal: Abwehr und Verzögerungskampf der 19. Armee im Herbst 1944 unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Einsatzes der 11. Panzer-Division. Neckargemünd: Kurt Vowinckel, 1965.

 

Wilt, Alan F. The French Riviera Campaign of August 1944. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981.

 
 

Books with further details on the Southern France Campaign:

 

Esposito, Cheryl. The 756th Tank Battalion in the European Theatre. Privately printed, 1999.

 

Grossjohann, Georg. Four Years, Five Fronts. Reprint, New York: Presidio Press, 2005.

 

Hatlem, John C., and Kenneth E. Hunter. A WWII Pictorial History: The War in the Mediterranean. Herndon, Virginia: Brassey’s, Inc, 1998.

 

McFarland, Robert, ed. The History of the 15th Infantry Regiment in World War II. Privately printed, Early 1990s. Photocopied. (This book is a fairly straightforward transcription of the 15th Infantry Regiment’s unpublished 1945 collaborative historical manuscript)

 

Messenger, Charles. The Second World War in the West. London, United Kingdom: Cassell, 1999.

 

Morison, Samuel Eliot.  History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. XI, The Invasion of France and Germany 1944-19451957. Reprint, Edison, New Jersey: Castle Books, 2001.

 

Murphy, Audie. To Hell and Back. Reprint. New York, New York: Henry Holt and Company LLC, 2002

 

Polich, George B. Cannon’s Roar. Privately printed, 1995.

 

Pratt, Lt Col. Sherman W.  Autobahn to Berchtesgaden.  Baltimore, MD:  Gateway Press Inc., 1992.

Prohme, Rupert. History of the 30th Infantry Regiment in World War II. Washington: Infantry Journal Press, 1947.

 

Rust, Kenn.  Twelfth Air Force Story, Temple City, California: Historical Aviation Album, 1975.

 

Schrodek, Gustave W. Die 11. Panzerdivision “Gespensterdivision” Bilddokumente 1940-1945. Friedberg, 1984.

 

Schrodek, Gustave W. Ihr Glaube Galt Dem Vaterland: Geschichte Des Panzer-Regiments 15 (11. Panzer-Division). Munich: Schild Verlag, 1976.

 

Shirley, John.  I Remember: Stories of a Combat Infantryman in World War II. Privately Printed, 2003.

 

Stanton, Shelby L. Order of Battle U.S. Army, World War II. Novato, California: Presidio Press, 1984.

 

Taggart, Donald G.  The History of the Third Infantry Division in World War II. 1946. Reprint, Nashville, Tennessee: The Battery Press, 1987.

 

The Seventh United States Army Report of Operations: France and Germany 1944-1945. 1946. 2 vols. Reprint,  Nashville, Tennessee: The Battery Press, 1988.

 

Valentie, Isadore. Combat Medic, 2nd Edition, Tarentum, Pennsylvania: Word Association Publishers, 1998.

 

Whiting, Charles.  America’s Forgotten Army: The Story of the U.S. Seventh. Rockville Centre, New York: Sarpedon, 1999

 
 

Pamphlets and articles on the Southern France Campaign:

 

Clarke, Jeffrey J.  Southern France. The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II series CMH Pub 72-31

 

Ganz, A. Harding. “The 11th Panzers in the Defense, 1944” Armor Magazine, March-April 1994, Pages 26-37.

 
 

Motion Pictures/Newsreels on the Southern France Campaign:

 

Invasion of Riviera; Invasion of Southern France. 1944. Pathé Films newsreels downloaded via Internet from the website: www.britishpathe.com. (Each film is 3 to 4 minutes.)

 

Operation: Dragoon—The Allied Invasion of the South of France. Los Angeles, CA: OnDeck Home Entertainment, 30 min. 1996. Videocassette.

 

U.S. Army Signal Corps and U.S. Navy movies kept at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland: 3rd Division pushes on Montelimar France; Invasion Southern France, Bay of Pampelonne; Celebration of Liberation, Marseilles France; French rebuild bridge near Avignon, France; 3rd Division push Le Ganet; 15th Inf. Reg activities at camp; Riviera landings; U.S. troops advance inland; Southern France missions Twelfth Air Force; Expansion of Southern France Beachhead;

(Film reels taken in August 1944 and vary in length from a few minutes to 12 minutes.)