Andrea Mitchell Reports
It was the fight to clear normandy and make sure we had a foothold. that was 73,000 killed and 153,000 wounded. there had been nothing like it in history. the complexity, the risk of this operation. >> when you think about general eisenhower, he had written the letter of apology should it have failed. taking all of the responsibility on his own shoulders. >> yeah. it was such an important moment in history. what would have happened if we had been repulsed at the beachhead, if the germans had been able to focus on the soviets who had done the preponderance of the fighting and knocked them out o...