Books

Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy by Terry Copp

Pegasus Bridge by Stephen Ambrose

Official Histories

By Air to Battle: The Official Account of the British Paratroops in World War IIby The Air Ministry & The Ministry of Information [reprint edited by Bob Carruthers]

The Victory Campaign: The Operations in North-West Europe, 1944-1945. Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War. Vol. III by C.P. Stacey

Victory in the West Vol. I: The Battle of Normandyby Major L.F. Ellis

Primary Sources

Canadian War Diaries of the Normandy Campaign at the Laurier Military History Archive

Articles

A Question of Relevance”: The Establishment of a Canadian Parachute Capability, 1942–1945 by Bernd Horn

“If anything should happen to me” The Last Letter of Private Leslie Abram Neufeld, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion by Siân Price

A Most Irrevocable Step: Canadian Paratroopers on D-Day, The first 24 hours, 5-6 June 1944,” by Bernd Horn and Michel Wyczynski

Links

Mémorial Pegasus, Bénouville

La Poterie du Mesnil de Bavent, Le Mesnil

Merville Battery Museum, Merville

The Battle for Merville Battery by Neil Barber at 1940s Society

Maps

From The Victory Campaign by C.P. Stacey.

The Invasion of Normandy Allied Concentration and Routes 6 June 1944 (Sketch 5, p 92)

Operations 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion 6 June 1944 (Sketch 6, p 118)