General Eisenhower-- D-Day message to the military

Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower recorded this message for those about to participate in the D-Day operations of June 6, 1944.

"Soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
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I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory. Good luck, and let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking."

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[drjj4]

legandery hero, what a great leader

[11nytram11]

You cant cry blue murder about the bombing of German civilians when the Nazis had bombed civilians since they began "regaining" German land in 1938.

As Bomber Harris said "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind"

[pt45g46]

The nit-picking over the abilities of the Allied generals is nuts. They pulled together in an unprecedented coalition. The WW2 coalition in the west was bigger than in WW1. The Americans and the British were given the top jobs, because their countries contributed the most men and treasure, and would contribute the most blood. The Danes, the Dutch, the Czechs, the Poles, the Serbs, the Norwegians, the Greeks, and the French also fought and died. It was a crusade against evil!!!

[ortega0221]

You have to keep in mind that, at the level Ike was working he had to deal with a lot of Political pressure. And he was chosen for this post because of his ability to manage. Agreed he had his set of faults too, but come on. He was a political general. Which was needed at the time. Overall i think he managed to pull it off. Thanks for the upload mate.. Two thumbs up fo you..

[11nytram11]

@youbestbequiet Devers was a much better general than Bradley - he was one of the main men responsible for the mechanization of the US Army - and accomplished much more with less but he and Eisenhower didn't get along so he was left alone on the far Southern flank of the Allied advance and could not have as much impact as Bradley. Devers has no glaring failures or mistake, unlike Bradley who had the Hurtgen Forrest and the Battle of the Bulge as well as a part in Patton's Lorraine Campaign.

[11nytram11]

@youbestbequiet Bradley was the top American General in Europe for the only reason that he commanded three of the US Armies deployed there. He had more impact on the war in Europe than any other American General becuase of the power at his disposal and the fact that Eisenhower liked him and relied on him more than Devers or Montgomery. He, however, hated the British and thought the Americans didn't need them anymore after OVERLORD was finished so never consented to helping them again.

[11nytram11]

@youbestbequiet Patton? Please! He one Army Commander of many and made no higher command decisions in his life. Simpson, Patch, Hodges, Demsey and Crerar had as much impact on the war as Patton did.

Eisenhower was the boss, Montgomery, Bradley and Devers were his immediate subordinates. Eisenhower made the mistake of trying to compromise between those three men and failed to exert his will on any of them - his broad front was a product of this, and failed in the winter months of 1944.

[sikmiXXX]

ubestbquiet lad ..lol

[sikmiXXX]

ye a sed ure a faggot lad lol wots it mata hw i spell am dyslexic for the record but the point is you just got a lesson in history and all you could do is pik up on the fact i spelt a few words wrong, even though a compleat retard could work out ppl spel said as sed cus it saves abit of time, especialy when they are spending it correcting sum idiot who cant even make a vaild argument,

[youbestbequiet]

@sikmiXXX sed? You know history but cannot spell? lol Okay, you are a genius. We all believe you. It is the internet so you can be anything you want to be.

[sikmiXXX]

but at the time the 12 army group only had 9 Divisions in it, Ike refused the plan, after the war it was revealed by 3 people of Montys senior staff that Ike agreed with the plan, but refused it because it was an election year in the States and he didnt think the fact 12 army group only had 2 divisions in it would go down well back home, by now having the political will to mass a consentrated attack at 1 point in the line, the war dragged on for another year...

[sikmiXXX]

Monty drew up a plan to make a breakthrough into the german line, before this the allies had been making some progress, but they had their fources evenly spread out across the whole, line the plan was to basicly mass troops up in one area and then break throgh, because by streaching out and pushing across the entire line you risked not having the power the break through anywhere, monty needed somthing like 7 divisions from the American 12th army group