Anniversary Quote by Tom Brokaw

there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings…

— Tom Brokaw

During a period of time when Italy is talking about splitting northern and southern Italy, France is talking about splitting with Corsica and Normandy,…

— Juan Enriquez

WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion of Normandy,…

— Anthony Doerr

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work…

— Studs Terkel

“Normandy became an appendix to England, the nobler dominion, and received a greater conformity of their laws to the English, that they gave to…

— Samuel Johnson

“Sixty-five years ago [written 2009], in a brief lull between storms in a remarkably stormy June, even by the standards of Channel weather, the…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

“The rest of that summer in Normandy was wet. They fought their way from hedgerow to hedgerow from Caumont to St.-Lo. By the time…

— A.G. Graham

So my father [Erwin Rommel] decided during the battle in Normandy, he knew really soon that it wasn't possible to win this battle. But…

— Manfred Rommel

“June 6, 1944: Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on 'D-Day,' beginning the liberation of German-occupied western Europe during World War II.”

— Anonymous

I tell people my breasts were made in Normandy from butter and creme fraiche.

— Laetitia Casta

Almost 60,000 average Americans had the courage to go out and charge those beaches on Normandy, to drop out of airplanes who knows where,…

— Rick Santorum

I think that both Russia and other international actors, including those who are more actively engaged in the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis (that…

— Vladimir Putin

This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our…

— Manfred Rommel

President Bush paid homage Wednesday to World War II veterans of Normandy at the D-Day Memorial. Later that night, his twin daughters paid a…

— Argus Hamilton

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower