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	Norman Cota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While Cota had a far less sanguine view of the plan than did the higher command, even he underrated the extent of the near-catastrophe that awaited V Corps (commanded by General Gerow and composed of the 29th Infantry Division and the famous "Big Red One" 1st Infantry Division) on Omaha.
		Cota landed with a part of the 116th Infantry Regiment of the 29th Division, in the second wave, approximately one hour after H-Hour, on the Omaha sector known as Dog White.
		Cota retired from the army in 1946 at the rank of Major General.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_Cota (924 words)

	Encyclopedia: Norman Cota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Norman "Dutch" Cota, assistant division commander of the 29th, came on a group of infantry pinned down by some Germans in a farmhouse.
		Cota led his squad around a hedge to get as close as possible to the house.
		General Norman "Dutch" Cota, the Assistant Division Commander of the 29th Division had a famous meeting with the 5th Ranger Battalion's commander, Colonel Max Schneider.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Norman-Cota (1848 words)

	Military.com Content
		Cota had a galvanizing effect on most of the men he encountered on D-Day.
		Cota's gap allowed more men and more equipment to be moved off the beach and out of enemy fire.
		Cota was not killed in combat, however; he lived to see his D-Day deeds recreated on the silver screen in "The Longest Day."
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent?file=ML_cota_bkp (396 words)

	WWII \| Marauders and Rangers lead the way.
		As the situation became critical on Omaha Beach, Brigadier General Norman D. Cota, Assistant Division Commander of the 29th Infantry Division, stated that the entire assault force must clear the beaches and advance inland or die.
		Cota started encouraging individuals and small groups to move out on their own, saying, "Don't die on the beaches, die up on the bluff if you have to die, but get off the beaches or you're sure to die." To Raaen, he said, "You men are rangers and I know you won't let me down."
		Whatever Cota's exact words, the motto of the Rangers became "Rangers lead the way." It is a valid motto, well earned, but insofar as it implies that it was necessary for the rangers to be inspired to lead, it needs some correcting.
	www.suasponte.com /WWII.htm (4481 words)

	Hopes Dashed in the Hurtgen
		Cota was ordered to use an entire regiment to push northeast, farther up the ridge to Hürtgen to secure the right flank of VII Corps' attack.
		Since the 28th would require a direct line of supply into the Monschau Corridor once Schmidt was taken, Cota also was ordered to attack with another regiment to the southeast, directly into the Kall gorge toward Simonskall, to secure the secondary roads in the corridor.
		Thus when Cota's division jumped off on the originally scheduled date of November 2, it was conducting the only Allied assault along a 160-mile stretch of front.
	historynet.com /wwii/blkommerscheidt (2137 words)

	Lone Sentry: 28th Roll On: The Story of the 28th Infantry Division -- WWII G.I. Stories Booklet
		Major General Norman D. Cota, commanding the 28th Infantry Division, lent his cooperation and basic material was supplied by his staff.
		Cota now commanded was not a new one.
		Many of its units were fighting their second war, others had histories that reached far back into the past—in some cases, years before the American Revolution.
	www.lonesentry.com /gi_stories_booklets/28thinfantry (5023 words)

	The Rhineland Campaign
		Although the progress of the 28th's other regiments was behind schedule, Cota and his staff were pleased, if somewhat surprised, with the unexpectedly easy capture of the town.
		The delay allowed the Germans to commit three divisions, one a panzer unit, against Cota's 28th, since Allied activity elsewhere in the First or Ninth Army sectors remained negligible.
		The carnage in the Huertgen thus continued until 13 November, when Hodges finally came to the realization that the battered division could not secure the right flank of the VII Corps and replaced it six days later with the fresh 8th Infantry Division.
	www.ping.be /~cv920172/excerpt_rhineland_campaign.htm (2413 words)

	Agencies Provide Fundraising Help
		Like OTF, COTA asks families to identify a network of volunteers who will orchestrate fundraising activities in the community.
		All contributions are deposited in a tax-exempt COTA fund and are used strictly to pay medical expenses.
		COTA's administrative expenses are covered by the interest earned on the accounts into which funds raised for patients are deposited.
	www.bmtinfonet.org /newsletters/issue20/help.html (667 words)

	Omaha Beach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nearly all of his photos were lost in a dark room accident.
		Norman Cota, a general from the 29th who helped motivate troops off the beach.
		Joseph T. Dawson was one of the first officers to make it to the cliff tops.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Omaha_Beach (904 words)

	ArmyRanger.com - For and by the Ranger Community
		Cota served as an inspiration to all who saw him on that bloody day.
		Encountering stiff resistance, the Rangers' movement was nearly stopped until Cota moved forward to assist the Ranger platoon leader Lieutenant Parker, with the disposition of his element.
		Observed and fired on by some of the defenders, Cota's group was able to capture five German prisoners who showed them a safe passage through the minefields of the draw that allowed all to safely reach the beach.
	www.armyranger.com /mod.php?mod=userpage&page_id=48&menu= (5238 words)

	‘It Didn’t Look Like a Happy Day’
		Norman Cota, assistant division commander, was away on a trip to London.
		One of the first soldiers he befriended, as the weeks of hard training ground on, was Joseph Justin McCarthy, an Irish immigrant who had been living in New York.
		Charles Gerhardt, division commander, Cota and Col. Charles Canham introduced us to the other officers there and “said that’s where you’re going” motioning toward a mock-up of Omaha Beach.
	www.ausa.org /dday/mccarthy.htm (838 words)

	Gen. Norman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		That was the same job held by Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf before him, and Gen. Tommy Franks after.
		Challenging Gore's patriotism is a disgraceful ploy the Bush campaign -- and Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf -- should have resisted.
		Norman Schwarzkopf; former defense secretaries William Cohen and Frank Carlucci; former CIA Director James Woolsey;
	biguglies.info /info/Gen.-Norman (378 words)

	The Raiders
		The division had been involved in fighting south east of Aachen and was to rest, train and absorb the new replacements in what was considered a quiet area.
		On the evening of the 16th Cota finally release the 2nd Btn less Company G for the purpose of relieving Marnach and driving to Hosingen.
		General Cota wrote Fuller “I fear that had it not been for your 110th, there never would have been a Bastogne.
	www.wargamer.com /Hosted/raiders/articles/Ardennes/SKYLINEDRIVE.asp (1445 words)

	Qualify Soldiers with grenades in seconds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Norman "Dutch" Cota of the 29th (The man who cleared Omaha Beach, depicted by Robert Mitchum in the film, The Longest Day).
		Norman Cota, came on a group of infantry pinned down by some Germans in a farmhouse.
		As they tossed grenades into the windows, Cota and another man kicked in the front door, tossed a couple of grenades inside, waited for the explosions, them dashed into the house.
	www.combatreform.com /grenades.htm (1106 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 98197744
		No terrain in the world was better suited for defensive action with the weapons of the fourth decade of the twentieth century than the Norman hedgerows, and only the lava and coral, caves and tunnels of Iwo Jima and Okinawa were as favorable.
		As they tossed grenades into the windows, Cota and another man kicked in the front door, tossed a couple of grenades inside, waited for the explosions, then dashed into the house.
		We get some sense of how it was for the Normans before and during the battle in a top secret report from OSS (Office of Strategic Services) in London direct to President Franklin Roosevelt.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/simon052/98197744.html (8761 words)

	MilitaryHistoryOnline.com - Mythos revisited: American Historians and German Fighting Power in the Second World War.
		Canham persuaded men to advance by pointing out that they were being murdered as long as they remained on the beach---they might as well move up and take their chances of being murdered inland.
		Cota found a bulldozer abandoned just where it could have broken the antitank wall at the exit from the beach.
		Both Canham and Cota thus won the Distinguished Service Cross….Yet the initiative, the bravery, and the tactical skill in the indirect approach among the soldiers on the beach had between midday and darkness turned General Bradley's thoughts from withdrawal to reinforcement.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/armies/chapter3.aspx (2704 words)

	US Army Ranger History: WWII 29th Battalion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After graduating with honors, the unit was attached to Lord Lovat's Number 4 Commando Troop for tactical training and cliff climbing, winning the respect of Lord Lovat and the approval of Brig.
		Norman Cota who was then chief liaison for Maj. Gen.
		It is known several 29th Ranger Battalion men did go on a raid with the Commandos on an island off the coast of France and acquitted themselves well, killing three Germans, and on the 20th of September, 1943, a company moved to Dover to take part in a raid on the Continent.
	www.ranger.org /rangerHistoryWorldWarII29thBattalion.html (278 words)

	Eddie Slovik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The nine officers of the court found Slovik guilty and sentenced him to death.
		The sentence was reviewed and approved by the divisional commander, Major General Norman Cota.
		On December 9, Slovik wrote a letter to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied commander, pleading for clemency, but desertion had become a problem and Eisenhower confirmed the execution order on December 23 in order to deter other potential deserters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eddie_Slovik (942 words)

	USATODAY.com - Scores (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		TB: Moni-Erigbali; Sellier 10; Blalock; Correll 5; Rodriguez 3; Nichols 3; Norman.
		RBI: Norman (20), Sellier 3 (26), Correll 2 (36).
		TB: Tingler; Cota 6; Lind 5; Arnold 5; Chiaravalloti 3; Whittaker; Quiroz 3.
	usatoday.com /sports/scores105/105202/BBM2005_07_21_clrafx-dunafx-1.htm (257 words)

	The Landing
		We were dropped into the channel from the mother ship at about 4:30 in the morning.
		When we hit the seawall, which was roughly about 4 feet high, we laid down prone behind the wall.
		I was lying on the sand next to Colonel Schneider as Cota walked up and called for him.
	www.thedropzone.org /europe/Normandy/epstein.html (846 words)

	Normandy Today Message Board: Re: Gen. Norman Cota and Kin
		The name Cota is very big here with many of the descendents who seattled the city Cota.
		I have a friend name Norman Cota who lives near by, and he says that from time to time he receives calls inquiring if he is realted to Gen.Cota, and he says he isn't.
		It was very interesting to see that the Cota's had a General in World War II before their was affirmative action.
	members2.boardhost.com /Normandy_Today/msg/279.html (216 words)

	From Louisiana to
		General Cota and Rouzie conferred, decided to join forces and drive for the village and the high ground to the South.
		During the night General Cota had sent a message by radio to 29 Division Headquarters reporting that he had observed 150 German troops reentering Montmartin.
		General Cota, cut off from his own unit for two days, was able to link up with Captain George Nichols' Company.
	www.msu.edu /~colvinch/history.htm (13974 words)

	Reprinted with permission from Lieutenant Colonel Richard F (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Norman D. Cota, commander of the 28th Division, went through the streets rounding up all the troops he could find for a counter-attack.
		When the building could not be taken by unsupported riflemen, he maneuvered a battery of the 771st Field Artillery (a Black unit) into position to fire on the building.
		Cota also had an engineer light pontooc company retained as riflemen, a few howitzers sited as single pieces around the outpost position at Vaux-lez-Rosieres on the Bastogne-Neufchateau Road, and a platoon of SP 76mm tank destroyers from the 602d Tank Destroyer Battalion (a Black unit).
	www.bjmjr.com /ww2/ardennes.htm (2386 words)

	Cota Family Genealogy Forum
		Re: Teofilo Prudencio Cota - Carol HIbbard (Hebert) Grainger 8/16/01
		Re: Federico and Rosario Cota of Bisby AZ - Rachel Cota 3/03/00
		Re: Federico and Rosario Cota of Bisby AZ - Rachel Cota 3/31/00
	www.genforum.com /cota (1698 words)

	Historiography of the Huertgen Forest Campaign 1944-1945
		Cota's attack was scheduled to begin on 2 November 1944.
		Throughout the book, the author emphasizes the pressure Cota was under from Hodges and Gerow at a time when American division and regimental commanders were being relieved of command at the slightest hint of failure.
		Here again, the author blames General Cota for failing to guard the one and only means of supplying his troops and evacuating the wounded.
	members.aeroinc.net /breners/buckswar/hist_text.html (13356 words)

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		It's a good thing State has already played at Cameron, otherwise they may have been exposed to chants of "Follow the yellow brick road!" After the game Herb displayed typical candor, saying "Our inside game is our big Achilles heel right now.
		Everybody knows it." The Tarheels certainly knew it, pummeling State on the inside on the way to a career game for Jamison and Cota.
		Norman Nolan for UVA did the same last Sunday.
	www.mindspring.com /~ratledge/texaswolf/lowman_1983.htm (850 words)

	Special Operations.Com
		Heavy German fire raked the beachhead, pinning the Rangers and troops of the 29th behind a seawall.
		Norman D. Cota, the assistant division commander of the 29th, roared, "We have to get the hell off this beach.
		Rangers, lead the way!" Whether under Cota's inspiration or not, small parties of Rangers and infantry scrambled over the seawall and, under cover of the rising smoke, carried the heights.
	www.specialoperations.com /Schools/Army/Ranger_School/Rudder_Background.htm (1872 words)

	The Observer \| Focus \| Hour by hour: the triumphs and tragedies of the longest day
		However, as he is considering this radical step, US destroyers risk beaching themselves by going close inshore to fire their 5-inch guns directly on to the German gun positions.
		And on the beach, Brigadier General Norman Cota rallies his men, who have got as far as the sea wall, and encourages them to begin the assault that at last overwhelms the German defences.
		Cota wins a Distinguished Service Cross for getting his men to advance.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /focus/story/0,6903,1232488,00.html (2179 words)

	Objective Schmidt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If the main attack was launched while the Germans still controlled these dams, they could wait until the VII Corps was partially across the Roer, release the dammed water, and thus isolate all or part of the corps by river flood waters.
		MG Cota, frustrated by the lack of progress in the 110th s sector, halted the 110th's attack and moved 3/ 110 over to the 112th's sector to spearhead a drive to recapture Schmidt.
		Desperate, MG Cota committed his only remaining reserves, A and C companies of the 146th Engineer Battalion, to retake Vossenack before all the troops south of the Kall, (1 and 3/ 112, 3/ 110), were completely isolated.
	www.ping.be /~cv920172/shortHistoryGS.htm (1787 words)

	US 2nd Ranger Infantry Battalion
		Cota chose the 5th Ranger Battalion, led by Lt. Col.
		Max Schneider, to make a way through the murderous fire with the command, "Rangers, lead the way off this beach!".
		Cota's order has become the familiar motto, "Rangers lead the way!"
	www.2ndrangers.org /2nd_Rangers_History.htm (1444 words)

	75th Ranger Regiment Battalions of World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It was during the bitter fighting along the beaches that the Rangers gained their official motto.
		As the situation became critical on Omaha Beach, Brigadier General Norman D. Cota, Assistant Division Commander of the 29th Infantry Division, stated that the entire assault force must clear the beaches and advance inland.
		He then turned to Lieutenant Colonel Max F. Schneider, commanding the 5th Ranger Battalion, and said, "Rangers, lead the way!" The 5th Battalion spearheaded the a breakthrough that enabled the Allies to drive inland from the invasion beaches.
	www.soc.mil /75thrr/75thrrww2.shtml (495 words)

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