Word: d-day
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...make no other choice. In their race across the Seine, the Allied units outran their stocks of gasoline, ammunition, spare parts and food. To maintain itself in the field, an infantry division required 650 tons of supplies every day. The supply planners assumed that they would not have to support any U.S. divisions north of the Seine until 120 days after D-day. But within 90 days, 16 divisions were 150 miles beyond the Seine. Both Montgomery and Bradley had to halt to let supplies catch...
...retirement, Eisenhower reflected on the fact that when he was planning D-day, most of his colleagues thought the war would last two more years. His own bet -- the end of 1944 -- was four months too optimistic. But he took pride in the fact that only "11 months from the day we landed in Normandy, the surrender took place...
...spokesman for Germany's opposition Social Democrats. "The problem in 1933 was not that there were too many Nazis but that there were too few democrats. Today we have enough democrats." So do France, Britain, Spain and Italy. That, ultimately, is the gift the soldiers brought to Europe on D-day...
Bill Clinton took a seat in the front row of the White House family theater last Tuesday night while a panel of historians, retired generals and combat veterans discussed the Normandy invasion. When the talk turned to Omaha Beach, the costliest battle on D-day, 1944, Clinton listened intently as his guests explained that the deadly Omaha landings had not gone according to plan. The predawn bombing raids had missed their targets; the undertow was so strong that many G.I.s lost or abandoned their weapons before reaching land; instead of one German battalion guarding the shore, the Americans arrived...
...major, commanding a battalion of the 21st Panzer Division in Normandy on D-day that fought in vain for six weeks to contain the British beachhead north of Caen...