Churchill Archive for Schools - themes_key-questions_normandy

Themes • Key questions in modern world history • Why were the Normandy Landings such a remarkable achievement for the Allies? • The Sources

The Sources

Source no	Document reference	Date	Caption
1	➜ CHAQ 2/3/64	4 Jun 1944	An extract from the record of a conversation which took place between Winston Churchill and General de Gaulle on 4 June 1944
2	➜ CHAR 20/243/8-49	Jun 1944-May 1945	Extracts from a report written by a senior British commander, Field Marshall Montgomery, in 1945, describing military operations in North West Europe between June 1944 and May 1945
3	➜ CHUR 4/333	1949-1951	Extracts from a draft of Chapter 33 of Churchill’s history, The Second World War, Volume 5: Closing the Ring. The draft was written between 1949 and 1951.
4	➜ CHUR 4/23A-B	1948	Extracts from a document sent to Lord Mountbatten by General Crerar of the Canadian Army in 1948
5	➜ CHUR 20/164/49-50	7 May 1944	Extracts from a telegram sent to President Roosevelt of the USA from Churchill on 7 May 1944
6	➜ CHAR 20/166/22-23	4 Jun 1944	Extracts from a telegram sent to the leader of the USSR, Joseph Stalin, by Churchill on 7 June 1944