Quote by 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

“Our whole strategy must be to prevent the Allies from securing a beachhead, because once they achieve that, the battle is lost…perhaps even the…

— Ken Follett

“settling down. Suddenly as we came around a bend in the road, a Heinie tank loomed up in front of us. This one was…

— Brenton G. Wallace

“trained and ready to fight. “I now have a really intensive faith in the First Division. They are 1,000 percent better than they were….…

— Rick Atkinson

“The two of them inspected a street barricade being built by the city’s would-be defenders and decided that it would take the approaching Soviet…

— Frederick Taylor

“Dirck bolted to his feet and peered out the window. It wasn't a storm. It was worse. An armored transport had stopped outside. Seven…

— Marcha A. Fox

“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

“After immortal feats-of-arms at Narvik, in Holland, at Eben Emael, at Korinth, on Crete and at Leningrad, these men held the encircled airfield at…

— Frank Kurowski

“The Scimitars gave it some clog, intending to go firm once across the bridge but the defenders let the leading troop”

— Andy Farman

“When the men were all back in their places in line, the command to advance was given. As I looked down that long line…

— Ulysses S. Grant

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

“Seven floors below us, tanks were lined up on the streets. Soldiers gathered by in green uniforms and fur-trimmed caps. They held out their…

— Magdalena McGuire