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“Two great armadas would carry more than 100,000 troops to the invasion beaches. One fleet would sail 2,800 miles from Britain to Algeria, with…

— Rick Atkinson

“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

“more than 300 other ships bound for Algeria steamed from anchorages on the Clyde and along England’s west coast. For all these vessels to…

— Rick Atkinson

“The world remembers the battle ever since by the taxis. A hundred of them were already in the service of the Military Government of…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not…

— Ahmed Ben Bella

“more than 300 other ships bound for Algeria steamed from anchorages on the Clyde and along England’s west coast. For all these vessels to…

— Rick Atkinson

By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some…

— John Byng

“Thus the total armada amounted to 5,333 ships and craft of all types,”

— Stephen E. Ambrose

“Maxim 18: If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”

— Howard Tayler

“Tanks beached at X and Z were to race inland before dawn in a pincer movement to help capture two airfields south of Oran…

— Rick Atkinson

Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went…

— Ernst Toller

“For the entire AEF, the campaigns at Cantigny, Belleau Wood, Château-Thierry, and the Ourcq started to approach the bloodletting of past western front battles,…

— Joseph E. Persico