 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs - World War, 1939-1945 - 1964 - 66 pages
...discovered in a uniform pocket a prepared statement no one had even thought he might have considered. It read: "Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have...satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops,... | |
 | Max Hastings - History - 1985 - 530 pages
...information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.' Putting the note in his wallet, Eisenhower went to dinner. Stephen Ambrose Montgomery established his... | |
 | Paul Fussell - History - 1989 - 352 pages
...apart for nothing, his planes ripped and smashed to no end, his warships sunk, his reputation blasted: Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed...satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. Originally he wrote the troops have been withdrawn, as if by some distant, anonymous agency instead... | |
 | Stephen E. Ambrose - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 644 pages
...information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."34 Putting the note in his wallet, Eisenhower went to dinner. Then at 6 PM he and a group of... | |
 | Stephen E. Ambrose - History - 1994 - 664 pages
...information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."39 Rommel spent a quiet June 5 with Lucie. He gathered wildflowers for a birthday bouquet. His... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - History - 1996 - 168 pages
...Eisenhower had already written when he contemplated the difficulty of the Omaha mission: "Our landings have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold, and I have withdrawn the troops." It was because of men like the Rangers that Ike never had to deliver that message to the waiting world.... | |
 | Robert G. Torricelli, Andrew Caroll - History - 1999 - 488 pages
...Eisenhower wrote out the following message to the American people and their allies around the world Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed...satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops,... | |
 | Stephen E. Ambrose - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 774 pages
...sat at his portable table and scrawled a press release on a pad of paper, to be used if necessary. "Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed...satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops," he began. "My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available.... | |
 | George F. Will - Sports & Recreation - 1999 - 372 pages
...D-Day, General Eisenhower drafted a statement to be issued if the invasion failed. First he wrote: "Our landings in the CherbourgHavre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and the troops have been withdrawn." But then he struck the last six words and wrote instead: ". . . and... | |
 | John J. Pitney, Jr. - Political Science - 2001 - 260 pages
...for any remaining errors. As Dwight Eisenhower was ready to say in case the D-Day invasion failed, "If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone." The Art of Political Warfare Introduction We had to be battle ready just to be in the game — to break... | |
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone. 
