door Roel R. » 13 dec 2003, 18:47
CdG: "Ah, Stalingrad! All the same, they are a pretty tremendous people, a very great people."
AW: "Ah, yes, the Russians..."
CdG: "No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!"
--Charles de Gaulle, leader of liberated France, at reception in French Embassy, Moscow, Dec 1944, talking to BBC correspondent Alexander Werth.
"OK, we'll go!"
General Dwight D. Eisenhower's decision to launch Operation Overlord (5 June 1944, 4:15 a.m.). D-Day was on for 6 June.
"Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the allied expeditionary force: You are about to embark upon the great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere are with you …"
General Dwight D. Eisenhower (D-Day, 6 June 1944)
"As our boat touched sand and the ramp went down I became a visitor to hell."
Pvt. Charles Neighbor, 29th Division, Omaha Beach (D-Day, 6 june 1944)
"Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let's get the hell out of here."
Colonel George Taylor, 16th Regimental Commander on Omaha Beach (D-Day, 6 June 1944)
"If we do not succeed in our mission to close the seas to the Allies, or in the first 48 hours, to throw them back, their invasion will be successful ..."
Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel - Commandant of German Army Group B
CdG: "Ah, Stalingrad! All the same, they are a pretty tremendous people, a very great people."
AW: "Ah, yes, the Russians..."
CdG: "No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!"
--Charles de Gaulle, leader of liberated France, at reception in French Embassy, Moscow, Dec 1944, talking to BBC correspondent Alexander Werth.
"OK, we'll go!"
General Dwight D. Eisenhower's decision to launch Operation Overlord (5 June 1944, 4:15 a.m.). D-Day was on for 6 June.
"Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the allied expeditionary force: You are about to embark upon the great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere are with you …"
General Dwight D. Eisenhower (D-Day, 6 June 1944)
"As our boat touched sand and the ramp went down I became a visitor to hell."
Pvt. Charles Neighbor, 29th Division, Omaha Beach (D-Day, 6 june 1944)
"Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let's get the hell out of here."
Colonel George Taylor, 16th Regimental Commander on Omaha Beach (D-Day, 6 June 1944)
"If we do not succeed in our mission to close the seas to the Allies, or in the first 48 hours, to throw them back, their invasion will be successful ..."
Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel - Commandant of German Army Group B