"If I was a horse, you'd day that I'd stepped up in class, if you like, " he grinned.
To raise his spirits, he told himself that on D Day the Allied soldiers had landed on these beaches.
Furthermore, he added, should the marines be properly apprehensive about underwater obstacles, these would be effectively eliminated well before D Day by teams of Navy frogmen who would clear the beaches.
Few senior officers had the capacity to give their troops a laugh, and the single feature that made tolerable my vision of D Day, if there was such a feature, was that Happy Halloran would be the one to lead me into the jaws of death.
Ryan's The Longest Day, a 1959 book about D-Day, sold millions of copies and was made into an epic film with an all-star cast.
During World War II, on D-Day, it was the Rangers of D Company who famously scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc.
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D-Day veteran Fred Harris died at Basildon Hospital in March at the age of 90.
He made several combat jumps during World War II, including into Normandy as part of D-Day.
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Eisenhower talking to the men of the 101st Airborne on the eve of D-Day.
D-Day was a resounding success, and Eisenhower led the Allies to victory in World War II.
Ambrose became the moving force behind the creation of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans.
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Mr Obama has agreed to return to France to commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy.
As the 60th anniversary celebrations of the D-Day landings approach on June 6th, deep political Franco-American differences remain.
General Eisenhower, for instance, had words ready in case the D-Day landings failed.
"Three of them were on the beaches for the D-Day Invasion, " Porter said.
The Allied D-Day invasion, Harvey reveals, hinged on a stolen map of the Germans' secret network of underwater defenses.
The police raids on the Giro d'Italia at San Remo on 6 June was another "D-Day" for the sport.
He will later visit Germany, and then France for a D-Day commemoration ceremony.
The Republicans have chosen to retreat for now and delay D-day until May.
Presumably, he wears it on debate nights, the way some veterans get out their old Eisenhower jackets on D-day anniversaries.
His luck ran out three days before D-Day in June 1944 when the Lancaster bomber he was piloting was shot down.
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Ambrose hit his stride when he began his work on D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II.
On his way to the 65th D-Day commemorations in France, President Obama plans a curious stop-over in Germany, my home country.
D-Day is the best-remembered event of Britain's second world war, a preference that exemplifies the nation's esteem for improvisation and making-do.
During World War II, the deep water at Dittisham was used to provide safe anchorage for boats preparing for the D-Day Landings.
The National D-Day Museum reopened in December, and the New Orleans Museum of Art should open its doors again on March 3.
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