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Primary Sources
Baumgarten, Hal. "Hal Baumgarten." Interview. D-Day: To Victory. AHC. Television.
This is an interview with D-Day soldier Hal Baumgarten. This will help me
understand challenges that soldiers faced on the battlefield.

"D-Day (Battle of Normandy)." World History: The Modern Era. ABC-CLIO, 2001. Web. 9 Oct. 2015.
These are photos of soldiers and the beaches of Normandy during D-Day. These photos
helped me understand what the beach at Normandy looked like on D-Day.

Deanoworldtravels.wordpress.com. British Troops under Fire on Sword Beach. 1944. Normandy Beach.
pag. Print.
This is a photograph of soldiers on Sword Beach. I will use it to see what it was like on
Sword Beach.

Eisenhower, Dwight D. "Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force." Letter to Soldiers, Sailors
and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! 6 June 1944. D-Day The Greatest Invasion.
New York: Bloomsbury, 2003. 1. Web.
This is a letter from General Eisenhower to the D-Day soldiers the night before D-Day. This
letter helps me interpret General Eisenhower's feelings toward the soldiers.

FDR D-Day Speech June 6, 1944. Adapt. Fred Aley. Perf. FDR. Web.
This is the speech FDR gave on D-Day. I will use it to find more information about D-Day.

Nazi Germans. "Grossbritannien Und Irland." Double Cross. New York City: Broadway, 2012. pag. Print.
This is a map that German intelligence made. I will use it to get a different point of view on
espionage before D-Day.

Normandy Cemetery, Normandy, France. Personal photograph by author. 2014.

This is a picture that my sister took. I will use it to interpret honorary patterns.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Let Our Hearts Be Stout." Radio Address. 08 Oct. 2015. Speech.
This is the radio address given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 5, 1944, the night
before the D-Day invasion. It will give me an idea of the feelings American citizens had
about the soldiers.

Www.britannica.com. Canadian 3rd Division Troops at Bernires, Juno. 1944. Normandy, France.
This is a photo of Canadian soldiers on Juno Beach. I will use it to interpret how well the
Canadian soldiers fared.

WW2- Atlantic Wall. 2008. Web. 8 Nov. 2015.

This is a documentary about the Atlantic Wall that shows real footage. I will use it to gather
information on the Atlantic Wall.

Secondary Sources
Entertainment One, Impossible Pictures,., prod. "D-Day." D-Day: To Victory. American Heroes Channel.
United States, 21 Sept. 2011. Web.
This is a documentary about D-Day and the challenges soldiers faced. This video will help
me understand some of the challenges that the forces faced and the ways that they solved
them.

MacIntyre, Ben. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies. New York: Broadway, 2012. Print.
This is a book about the D-Day spies. This book will help me understand the deceptive tactics
that were used to trick the Nazis leading up to D-Day.

Mail, Daily. "Back on the Beaches One Final Time: D-Day Heroes Return to Normandy." pag. Print.
This is a map of the D-Day battle strategy. I will use it to give information about the strategy.

"Ronald Reagan Gives D-Day Anniversary Speech." World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society.
ABC-CLIO, 2005. Web. 8 Oct. 2015.
I used this speech to gain another perspective on the events that transpired on D-Day. I also
used it to learn specific sections of D-Day (the ones he discussed).

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Sterling, Christopher H. "Atlantic Wall: World War II." World at War: Understanding Conflict and
Society. ABC-CLIO, 2005. Web. 9 Oct. 2015.
This article helped me understand what the defenses on the Atlantic Wall were like on D-Day.
The Atlantic Wall was the line of German defenses from which the Germans ran their
operations.

Sturgeon, Alison. World War II: The Definitive Visual History: From Blitzkrieg to the Atom Bomb.
London: DK Pub., 2009. Print.
This book as a whole has many interesting bits about D-Day. There is also a section devoted
to articles, pictures, and maps of D-Day.

Tucker, Spencer C. "D-Day: World War II." World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society. ABCCLIO, 2005. Web. 8 Oct. 2015.
This is an article that I found online. I am using this source because it describes events
leading up to D-Day, tactics behind D-Day, and the invasion of Normandy.

Vat, Dan Van Der, and John S. D. Eisenhower. D-Day: The Greatest Invasion-- a People's History. New
York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2003. Print.
This book is full of useful letters, articles, battle strategies, photos, and quotes. Many of these
are original documents.

Worsham, James, and Tim Rives. "What Did Ike Say to Launch the D-Day Invasion?" Web log
post. National Archives. National Archives, 5 June 2014. Web. 15 Oct. 2015.
<blogs.archives.gov>.
This is a blog from the National Archives. The blog will help me find out more about
Eisenhower's decision making process on the morning of D-Day.