REFERENCES (âges en 2014)
PEYROLLES
1. Ms X, 85, lived near Trempasse Castel, personal notes and interviews.
2. Mr X, 90, Resistance fighter, interview.
3. Mr X, 75, former caretaker of the school camp, documents.
4. Mr X, school principal in 1944, personal notes.
5. Mr X, 84, the German shell pierced his family house, interview.
6. PVC X, C Company, letters sent from his Italian hospital and account to one of his daughters.
7. Mr X, Army Curator, found U.S. 3 mortar shell baskets by “Le Pas de l'Étroit”.
8. Mr X, 82, refugee in the cave, personal notes and interview.
9. Mr X, elected representative, location of the machine gun in the hills.
10. Mr ?, participant in the mass near Trempasse Castel.
11. Mr ?, the fireman called in 2010 for the intact shell, interview.
12. Ms X, the Sherman tank burning near her farm ignited a tree lining the road, interview.
13. Ms X, her farm was partially destroyed during the battle, interviews.
14. Mr X, account of his father living in La Marinière, interview.
15. Mr X, location of one of the two sheds that burned.
16. Mr X, “Vietnamese Workers Association”, eMail exchanges about the Indochinese camp.
17. “The blog of Chinafi” about the indochinese camp.
18. “La Marseillaise” , newspaper articles about the indochinese camp.
19. “Les travailleurs indochinois en France de 1939 à 1948”, Master's thesis by Liêm-Khê Tran-nu.
20. “Immigrés de force, les travailleurs indochinois en France (1939-1952)” by Pierre Daum.
21. “La Provence”, issue of 6/12/2010 about the intact shell.
MEYRARGUES
25. Mr X, 1204th Army Engineer Fire Fighting Platoon, took part in the bridge repair, eMails.
26. Mr X, archaeologist, Marseille, eMails about the panzers in this area that days.
27. Mr X, 89, Resistance fighter, saw the panzers trailers arrival, phone conversation.
28. Ms X, amateur archaeologist, location of the Roman gallery.
29. Mr X, 81, grandson of the farm couple killed by American gunfire, interviews.
30. Ms X, Germans killed her grandparents behind the cemetery, phone conversation.
31. Ms X, refugee in “Le Pas de l'Étroit”, interview.
32. Mr X, Mayor of the village of Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, interview and documents.
33. “Fernand Singerlé” by A.J.P.N. (Unknown persons, Just men and Persecuted during the Nazi Period).
34. “Catholic sisters of the countryside” of Meyrargues, interviews.
35. “Véran Noël dit Carbonnel” (son of the level-crossing keeper) Biographical dictionary shot, guillotined, slaughtered, 1940-1944.
JOUQUES
40. Mr X, 85, personal notes, eMails and interviews.
41. Ms X, 84, interview.
42. Ms X born Y, the U.S. shell killed her sister and her grandmother, interview.
43. Mr X, 90, last Resistance fighter of the Maquis of Jouques, interview.
PERTUIS
45. Mr X, Resistance fighter, testimonial on a website.
46. “Chronique de la Libération de Pertuis” by Jean-Jacques Dias, history teacher.
MIRABEAU
50. “Rapapéou”, bulletins of the local association “A.M.I.T.I.E.”.
51. Ms X, documents about the suspension bridge, the floating bridge and its memorial, interview.
LE PUY SAINTE-RÉPARADE
55. Mr X, collection of local testimonies, interview.
CADENET
57. Internet : “Deux agriculteurs dans la guerre”.
AIX-EN-PROVENCE
60. Mr X, 343rd Engineer Regiment, took part in the bridge repair, testimonial on a website.
61. Mr X, Resistance fighter, lived in the railway station, phone conversation.
62. Ms X taken on the Sherman tank, text in “AixenInfo”.
63. The French internment camp of “Les Milles” (classified by UNESCO).
64. “The Corps of Engineers, the War Against Germany”, by Alfred M. Beck.
ARCHIVES
70. Museum of the 45th Infantry Division: 4 CD of declassified archives sent (4,555 files).
71. United States Military Academy at West Point, maps of 1944.
72. French Geographical Institute, archives of aerial photographs.
73. Archives Department in the towns of Digne, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, Pertuis.
74. National Bridges and Roads Archives.
75. National Archives: “Catalina” report, German services well-informed.
76. Old land registers.
77. Map by Général De Lattre de Tassigny.
78. Diocese of Aix-en-Provence.
OTHERS
80. “180th Infantry, a regiment of the 45th Infantry Division”, by Norbert Salpeter & Carl Salter.
81. “The Story of the 180th Infantry Regiment” by George A. Fisher, 1947.
82. “Task force Butler” by Major Michael J. Volpe, Master of military art and science, San Francisco.
83. “Riviera to Rhine”, by Jeffrey J. Clarke & Robert Ross Smith.
84. “The 11th Panzer Division in Southern France” by Generalleutnant W. von Wietersheim.
85. “11th Panzer Division in Southern France” Historical Division Headquaters United States Army.
86. “Der Midi im Sommer 1944” by Helmut Reinicke & Manfred Wendel.
87. “La Résistance mosaïque” by Jean-Claude Pouzet.
88. “Mémoires” by Marcel Put, Resistance fighter in Manosque.
89. “Souvenirs d'un Résistant” by Jean Vial.
90. “La libération de la Corse, Mémoire et Citoyenneté Collection” n° 35.
91. “Histoire des chemins de fer de Provence” by José Banaudo.
92. Photos of parades of the “Forty Four Memories” association.
93. The Rhone American Cemetery, Draguignan.
94. Wikipedia, various internet sites, and local librairies for generalities.