“The most difficult and complicated operation ever to take place.”
WINSTON CHURCHILL
“The destruction of the enemy’s landing . . . is the sole decisive factor in the whole conduct of the war and hence in its final results.”
ADOLF HITLER
“The history of wars does not know of an undertaking comparable to it for breadth of conception, grandeur of scale, and mastery of execution.”
JOSEPH STALIN
“Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.”
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, Order of the Day, June 4, 1944
“In this column I want to tell you what the opening of the second front entailed, so that you can know and appreciate and forever be humbly grateful to those both dead and alive who did it for you.”