president trump: it was here that tens of thousands of the americans came, the g.i.'s, who boarded the landing craft that morning, knew that they carried on their shoulders not just the pack of a soldier, but the fate of the world. colonel george taylor, whose 16th infantry regiment would join in the first wave, was asked what would happen if the germans stopped? right then and there, hold on the beach, just stopped them what would happen? this great american replied, why the 18th infantry is coming in right behind us, the 26th infantry will come on, too. then there is the second infantry division, already afloat, and the ninth division