What did general dwight d. Eisenhower say when he gave the final order to launch the attack . Its puzzling to me, anyway, that perhaps the most important decision of the 20th century did not bequeath to history and posterity a quote to mark the occasion, something to live up to the magnitude of ikes decision. Something iconic like macarthurs vow to the people of the philippines, i shall return. The stakes of the invasion certainly merited verbal splendor, if not eloquence, if the the overlord operation had failed the allies might never have won the war and yet eyewitnesses to eisenhowers great moment of decisions could not agree on what he said and as for eisenhower he could not even agree with himself. He related five versions of his fateful words to journalists and biographers over the years that perhaps even more mysteriously he wrote five different versions of the statement in a 1964 article commemorating the 20th anniversary of dday. To put those words, whatever they might have be
I want to talk about an elusive dday mystery that exists. Despite the millions of words written about the allied invasion about normandy, june 6, 1944. What did general dwight d. Eisenhower say when he gave the final order to launch the attack . Its puzzling to me, anyway, that perhaps the most important decision of the 20th century did not bequeath to history and posterity a quote to mark the occasion, something to live up to the magnitude of ikes decision. Something iconic like general Douglas Macarthurs vow to the people of the philippines, i shall return. The stakes of the invasion certainly merited verbal splendor, if not eloquence, if the overlord operation had failed the allies might never have won the war and yet eyewitnesses to eisenhowers great moment of decision could not agree on what he said. And as for eisenhower, he could not even agree with himself. He related five versions of his fateful words to journalists and biographers over the years that perhaps even more mysteri
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