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If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn’t be here.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, US Army
Supreme allied commander, Normandy beachhead, France, 12 June 1944.
It was in reply to his newly graduated from West Point son John Eisenhower, who commented that vehicles driving bumper to bumper on the beachhead were in violation of textbook doctrine: “You’d never get away with this if you didn’t have air supremacy.” Quoted in the 1994 book D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II. This photograph shows General Eisenhower, General George Marshall, and General 'Hap' Arnold, beside a DUKW during their tour of the Normandy beachhead:
Apparently, from what they say, they have put one small ball in the air. I wouldn’t believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Press and radio news conference, 9 October 1957, responding to a question about Sputnik and whether a satellite could photograph secret installations. Published in Public Papers of the Presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957.
The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
Sec. 102(a), Declaration of Policy and Purpose, National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, Public Law 85-568, signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 29 July 1958. The current U.S. Code modernizes the phrase to “all humankind” in 51 U.S.C. §20102.
The Normandy invasion was based on a deep-seated faith in the power of the Air Force in overwhelming numbers to intervene in the land battle … making it possible for a small force of land troops to invade a continent.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, US Army
Hearings before the Committee on Military Affairs, U.S. Senate, 17 November 1945. Arguments for creation of a separate United States Air Force.
Four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in Africa and Europe were the bulldozer, the jeep, the 2-ton truck, and the C-47 airplane. Curiously, none of these is designed for combat.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Crusade in Europe, 1948.
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