D-day Quotes

Our landings … have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops …. The troops, the air, and the navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

I studied history at university, so I'm always quite fascinated by the Second World War and France. That's one of my interests.

Out of the heartland of America, out of this small house in Abilene, Kansas, came a man: Dwight D. Eisenhower. Through the crucial hour of D-Day he brought us the triumphant peace of VE-Day. Now, in another crucial hour in our history…

I must give a most emphatic warning, in the interest of our common cause, of the grave danger with which further delay in opening a second front in France is fraught

D-Day will be a reminder of what can be accomplished when allies work together and when everyone understands what’s at stake.

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918.

The eyes of the world are on you.

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

If D-Day - the greatest amphibious operation ever undertaken - failed, there would be no going back to the drawing board for the Allies. Regrouping and attempting another massive invasion of German-occupied France even a few months later in 1944 wasn't an option.

I like Ike

It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to the battle for a slice of beach only six miles long and two miles wide.

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.

You've gotta understand: in July of '44, the Allies were still contained on the peninsula in western France and the destruction of Europe had not really begun. War had not really touched the European continent at that point.

'What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.

WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion of Normandy, the Hitler Youth, the Holocaust, and at least a few of the horrors of the Eastern Front.

I hope to God that I know what I am doing.

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.

My dad was my hero. He was part of the D-Day landings and came back to Reading in 1945 - I was born in 1946 - so the house was full of soldiers who'd been to war and that was obviously the main topic.

I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

Jack Buck fought through Europe during World War II.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.