Advancing Quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I understood much later that this was the day of ‘the largest seaborne invasion in history’ or ‘the biggest military operation ever mounted’ –…

— Holger Eckhertz

The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and…

— Bernard Brodie

None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The largest contingent of invaders—drawn from the U.S. 1st Infantry and 1st Armored divisions aboard thirty-four transport ships—would storm ashore at Beach Z near…

— Rick Atkinson

There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes,…

— Tom Brokaw

Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean…

— John Paul Jones

It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in…

— Kurt Student

“The island would be bombarded for over 70 days ahead of the actual amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima, which would not occur until over…

— Charles River Editors

Unfortunately, half the boats were lost in a great storm at sea, and many members of the six boats that did make it to…

— Frederick Lenz

“As the U.S. Navy’s website put it, “Prior to the invasion, the 8-square mile island would suffer the longest, most intensive shelling of any…

— Charles River Editors

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

— Joseph Conrad