A British
Air Navigator, remembering what things were like on D-Day.
It
was wonderful. There
they were, marching in to die, just as if they were going to
a ball game… The Germans had hidden themselves in cliffs
facing the beach and were pouring deadly mortar fire down
upon the advancing Americans…
They did not have any cover except bomb-made mounds,
but they pushed forward, with men falling every way you
could look. It
was heart-breaking….
How useful
is Source C to an historian studying D-Day? Use Source
C and your own knowledge to
answer the question.
Evaluation of an
Interpretation
(markscheme)
Written
by SLA Marshall, The Atlantic Monthly (1960).
Normandy
was an American victory.
Is the view given in
Source D an accurate interpretation
of what happened on
D-Day?
Use Source D and your own knowledge to
answer the question.