As Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Forces, Eisenhower took leadership to a whole new level. On June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory." More than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion.
Click on the link below to watch video of that fateful day. Please remember our veterans as you watch and imagine how different things could be if not for leaders like General Eisenhower.
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Eisenhower Leadership Quotes:
"You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."
"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."
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