"In the days before the invasion a tense mood reigned. Everyone knew that the invasion had to come; we just didn't know when and where exactly. The resistance continued to make trouble, cutting electrical wires, shooting up individual vehicles, and so on.

On 2 or 3 June, a farmer who was friendly to the Germans gave us two rabbits that he had slaughtered. The day after, we went to pay him a visit and offer our collective tobacco rations in thanks. We found him lying in his clean living room with a crushed-in skull; his wife and children had disappeared. Someone, probably his murderers, had drawn the sign for the resitance in coal on the wall."

-Eugene Griesser
"The Lions of Carentan" Page 83