Quote by Rick Atkinson

“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

“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

“When an invading force crosses a river in its onward march, do not advance to meet it in mid-stream.  It will be best to…

— Sun Tzu

No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“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

“[Southward and a little west A thousand kilometers at best Here in Area Fifty-one Is where they took us, all undone. Other ships are…

— Marcha A. Fox

“In Socrates’ lifetime more than 800 triremes were launched from Athenian-controlled harbours: the largest manned navy the world had ever known.”

— Bettany Hughes

“Shortly after sunset on November 5, the convoy began to swing east, past the Pillars of Hercules. Soon the fleet would split apart, with…

— Rick Atkinson

Destroyers were the first to herald our entrance into the war.

— Josephus Daniels

One of my uncles was actually a sapper who cleared land mines for Anzacs, Australian soldiers, and we had to flee Vietnam. There were…

— Anh Do

(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of operations and…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under…

— David McCullough