CSPAN3 Eisenhowers Decision To Begin D-Day Invasion July 5, 2014
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 certain...