Cornelius Ryan Collection of World War II Papers, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Ohio University The Longest Day Inventory List First published in 1959. The Longest Day has been translated into Afrikaans, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish. A movie version of it appeared in 1962, starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert MItchum, Sean Connery, Eddie Albert, Curd Jürgens, Richard Burton, Peter Lawford, Rod Steiger, Irina Demick, Gert Froebe, Edmond O’Brien, and Kenneth More. Alden Library has both VHS and DVD versions of this movie. Table of Contents Cornelius Ryan Collection of World War II Papers, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Ohio University .................................................................................................................................. 1 INITIAL RESEARCH ........................................................................................................................... 2 AMERICAN FORCES ............................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. BRITISH FORCES ................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. CANADIAN FORCES ........................................................................................................................ 58 FRENCH CIVILIANS ......................................................................................................................... 64 GERMAN FORCES ........................................................................................................................... 65 CONDENSED RESEARCH ................................................................................................................ 69 BOOK MATERIAL .................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. SCREENPLAY MATERIAL ....................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. Flag images on the pages below are from the Wikimedia Commons. 2 INITIAL RESEARCH Box 1 • Folder 1 o Original outline, Ryan to William Buckley, CTL, Nov 19, 1957 (3p.). • Folder 2 o Newspaper and military bulletin advertisements for D---Day veterans (3 items: 8p.; c.2 xerox, 8p.). • Folder 3 o Letters, notes, and telegrams between Ryan (Europe) and Ward and Lang (NY Reader’s Digest), June 17--- July 30, 1958 (22 items; 39p.). • Folder 4 o Letters, notes, and telegrams between Ryan (Europe) and Panitza (Germany) and Revay (France), April 25, 1958---March 10, 1959 (29 items; 53p.). • Folder 5 o Letters, notes, and telegrams between Ryan and Isaacs (NY Reader’s Digest), May 7, 1958--- April 15, 1959 (49 items; 79 p.). • Folder 6 o Letters, notes, and telegrams between Ryan and Reader’s Digest (Pleasantville, NY), November 22, 1957--- August 13, 1958 (11 items; 17p.). • Folder 7 o Correspondence from American veterans (131p.; 1 photograph). • Folder 8 o Rosters of American personnel (6 items; 15.). • Folder 9 o Master lists of American questionnaires sent and returned, interviews held (13 items; 103p.; c.2 carbon, 53p.). • Folder 10 o Dead files--- questionnaires not answered or non---participant (50 items; 52p.; c.2---3 Ts carbon, 80p.). • Folder 11 o Schedules, notes, and lists concerning interviews (30p.). Box 2 • Folder 1 o Letters, telegrams, inventories, lists, and rosters between Ryan/staff and the Departments of the Army and Navy, April 14,1958--- September 2, 1958 (45 items; 60p.). o letter John Toland to Ryan, TNS, June 15, 1958 (1p.). • Folder 2 o Lists and rosters of American and German personnel and units (14 items; 108p.). Correspondence from Americans not in D-­‐Day 3 • Folder 3 o Abrams, Brig Gen Creighton,Letter to Ward, TLS, May 13, 1958 (1p.), o Letter to Ryan, TLS, July 9, 1958 (1p.) • Folder 4 o Anderson, Lt A.R., Letter Ward to Anderson, TL carbon, July 29, 1958 (1p.). • Folder 5 o Collins, Gen J. Lawton, Letter to Ward, TLS, May 9, 1958 (1p.). • Folder 6 o Davey, John A., Questionnaire (holo, 3p.). • Folder 7 o Eddy, Gen Manton S., Questionnaire (holo, 2p.), o Letter to Ward, TLS, May 21, 1958 (1p.), o Medal Citation (photostat, 1p.). • Folder 8 o Gerow, Gen Leonard T., Letter to Ward, ALS, May 11, 1958 (1p.). • Folder 9 o Gibbs, Col George W., Letter to Ward, TLS, May 13, 1958 (1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.). • Folder 10 o Heck, Richard C., Letter to Ward, TLS, August 1, 1958 (2p.). • Folder 11 o Huebner, Lt Gen C.P., Letter to Ward, TLS, May 22, 1958 (1p.). • Folder 12 o Hutchinson, Lt George F., Letter to Ward, ALS, August 5, 1958 (1p.). • Folder 13 o Lang, SSG James H., Questionnaire (Ts, 7p.), o Questionnaire synopsis (Ts, 1p.), o Postcard to Ryan, TNS, March 31, 1958 (1p.). • Folder 14 o McLaughlin, Amos M., Letter Ward to McLaughlin, TL carbon, July 29, 1958 (1p.). • Folder 15 o Reckord, Maj Gen Milton A., Questionnaire (Ts, 2p.), o Letter to Ward, TLS, April 2, 1958 (1p.), o Letter to Ward, TLS, April 23, 1958 (1p.), o Letter to Ward, TLS, May 9, 1958 (1p.), o Roster (Ts, 1p., holo, 1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.). • Folder 16 o Rizzo, Capt Victor P., Letter to Ward, TLS, April 16, 1958 (1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.), o Poetry (Ts carbon, 2p.). • Folder 17 o Schwirtz, Pvt Vincent C., Questionnaire (holo, 2p.), o Letter to Ward, ALS, June 1, 1958 (1p.). • Folder 18 o Unger, Capt E., Notes (Ts, 1p., holo, 1p.). • Folder 19 o Van de Voort, Lt Col Leo D., Letter to Ward, TLS, May 19, 1958 (1p.), o Medal Citation (photostat, 1p.). • Folder 20 o Wyman, Gen W.G., Letter to Ward, TLS, May 20, 1958 (1p.), 4 o Medal Citation (photostat, 1p.). Americans not in D-- Day, listed in book. • Folder 21 o Harper, Col J.R., Letter to editor, ALS, October 21, 1958 (3p.), Photograph, ca. 1945 (1 item). o Payne, Lt Winslow C., Questionnaire (holo,6p.), Letter to Ward, ALS, June 1, 1958 (2p.). o Ormsbee, Charles F., Questionnaire, (Ts, 3p.). o Swatosh, Maj Robert B., Questionnaire,(Ts, 3p.). o McCall, Capt Hobby H., Questionnaire, (holo, 3p.). Miscellaneous American Correspondence. • Folder 22 o Altick, Harold K., Letters (2 items: holo, 4p.). • Folder 23 o Crouch, Kenneth E., Letters (4 items: Ts, 8p.), o Roster (Ts, 1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.). • Folder 24 o Guthrie, Thurmon P., Letters (2 items: Ts, 2p.). • Folder 25 o Harwood, Jonathan H., Letters (3 items: holo, 5p., Ts with holo revisions, 2p.), o Summary of life of Capt J.H. Harwood, Jr (Ts carbon, 2p.). *partial dictaphone belt. • Folder 26 o Von Luttichau, Charles V.P., Letter to Ryan, ALS, June 5, 1958 (1p.), o Letter to Ward, TLS, June 10, 1958 (1p., holo, 1p.), o Letter Ryan to Von Luttichau, TL carbon, Sept 5, 1958 (1p.) o Letter to Ryan, TLS with holo addition, Oct 13, 1958 (1p.). • Folder 27 o Pattulo, A.R., Letters (2 items: Ts, 3p.). Hit Tunes of 1944. • Folder 28 o “I Double Dare You” (sheet music, 6p.; 2 copies), o Altered lyrics to “I Double Dare You” (holo, 1p.; Ts version, 1p.; c.2---4 Ts carbon, 1p.), o Lyrics to songs (Ts, 1p.). • Folder 29 o British correspondence, May 11, 1958--- Aug 26, 1958 (10 items: 20p.). Canadian Correspondence • Folder 30 o Letters and notes between Ward (U.S.) and MacKay (Canada), July 15, 1958--- Jan 27, 1959 (18 items: 24p.). • Folder 31 o Hickson, A.E., Letter to Ward, ALS, Oct 6, 1958 (1p.). • Folder 32 o Hundevad, John, Letters (6 items: 12p.). 5 • Folder 33 o Milroy, Lt Col W.A. and Stacey, Col C.P. o Letters (4 items: 6p.). • Folder 34 o London TIMES, June 4, 6---8, 1944 (4 items). • Folder 35 o Newspaper and magazine articles from 1958 (5 items: 17p.). Book Excerpts and Journal Articles Box 3 • Folder 1 o “Anti---Invasion: The Normandy Battles from the Enemy Side”, R.A.C.,JOURNAL, v.4, #1 (pp. 4---11 as Ts, 16p.; c.2 xerox, 16p.). • Folder 2 o Assman, Rear Admiral Kurt, “Normandy, THE FORCES MAGAZINE, Mar 1955 (pp. 44---50 as Ts, 21p; c.2 xerox, 21p.). 1944″, • Folder 3 o “Battalion and Small Unit Study Number 9 (Cassidy’s Battalion)”, History Section, European Theater of Operations, ca. 1945 (60p.; c.2 xerox, 60p.). • Folder 4 o Best, Wing Commander Norman,”We went on D---Day”, RADAR BULLETIN, June 1945 (pp. 4---6 as Ts, 6p.; c.2 xerox, 6p.). • Folder 5 o Blond, Georges, LA DEBARQUEMENT 6 JUIN 1944 (synopsis of ch. 15, Ts, 2p.; c.2 xerox, 2p.). • Folder 6 o Bowering, Cliff, “This Was D---Day”, THE LEGIONARY, v. 29, #1, June 1954 (pp. 5---7 as Ts, 4p.; c.2 xerox, 4p.). • Folder 7 o CANADA’S BATTLE IN NORMANDY (pp. 36---37, 45---61 as Ts, 14p.; c.2 xerox, 14p.). • Folder 8 o Chaplin, W.W., THE 52 DAYS (pp. 186, 281, 293---294 of THE LONGEST DAY, manuscript, Ts, 2p., Ts carbon, 6p.). • Folder 9 o Clay, Maj Ewart W., THE PATH OF THE 50TH (ch. 19, pp. 238---245 as Ts, 12p.; c.2 xerox, 12p.). • Folder 10 o Coker, Lt (jg) Coit N., “Fire Control on Omaha Beach”, THE FIELD ARTILLERY JOURNAL, UNITED STATES, Sept 1946 (pp. 530---532 as Ts, 8p.; c.2 carbon, 8p.; c.3---4 xerox, 8p.). • Folder 11 o “D---Day”, THE EAGLE, GLIDER PILOT REGIMENT, v.2, #10 (pp. 33---43 as Ts, 24p.; c.2 xerox, 24p.). • Folder 12 o Danckwerts, P.V., “King Red and Co”, R.A.C. JOURNAL, v.1, July 1946--- Oct 1947 (pp. 186---195 as Ts, 18p; c.2 xerox, 18p.). • Folder 13 o Gale, Lt Gen R.N., WITH THE 6TH AIRBORNE DIVISION IN NORMANDY (pp. 53---54, 59---61, 72--- 88 as Ts, 26p.; c.2 xerox, 26p.). 6 • Folder 14 o Gill, Ronald and John Groves, CLUB ROUTE IN EUROPE (pp. 15, 17---22 as Ts, 6p.; c.2 xerox, 6p.). • Folder 15 o Gunning, Hugh, BORDERERS IN BATTLE: THE WAR STORY OF THE KING’S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS 1939---1945 (ch. 11ff as Ts, 11p.; c.2 xerox, 11p.). • Folder 16 o “Hitting the Beaches”, ARMOR, v.60---61, 1951---1952 (pp. 14---21 as Ts, 21p.; c.2 xerox, 21p.). • Folder 17 o Holman, Gordon, STAND BY TO BEACH (excerpts from pp. 37---88 as Ts, 30p.; c.2 xerox, 30p.). • Folder 18 o Jackson, Lt Col G.S., OPERATIONS OF EIGHTH CORPS (p.