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Dwight D. Eisenhower


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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 dictrine: “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:

Beachhead

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. Arguements for creation of a seperate 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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