This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going to be. We're going down there, and we're throwing everything we have into it, and we're going to make it a success.

—U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force

This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

—Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain

