I want to talk to you this morning a dday mystery that persists despite the millions of words written about normandy. What did dwight d. Eisenhower say when he gave the final order to launch the attack . It is puzzling to me that the most important decision of the 20th century did not deqeev to a memorable quote to mark the occasion. Something to live up to the magnitude of ikes decision. Something iconic like douglas mccar arthurs i shall return. If the overloord operation fails the allies might never have won the war. Eisenhowers decision could not agree on what he said and eisenhower could not agree with himself. He related five versions of his faithful words to journalists over the years. More mysteryousley he wrote five different versions of the statement. Well, to put those words whatever they may have been in context, the high drama leading up to the invasion wont bear repeating. All of the elements for the dday attack was in place. More than 150,000 men 12,000 aircraft, 7,000 s