The United States will be hitting the Normandy coast and inland areas VERY HARD TONIGHT. At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Carentan.
- Donald J. Eisenhower, 1944
Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS
Normally you wouldn’t increase the likelihood of US casualties by announcing something like this ahead of time, unless you are bluffing to use it as a negotiating ploy, you are stupid, you don’t really care about the troops, or all three.
