Roosevelt: But that's not the real reason. We can't have you knocked off on the first day. Barton: You're important to this operation. Roosevelt: And that's why I'm supposed to go ashore in the first wave. You put that request in writing, made it official. BG Teddy Roosevelt Jr: I didn't mean to, Tubby. MG Raymond Barton: You're putting me on the spot. Eisenhower would never risk such a gambit. Erich Marcks: Well, fortunately it's just a game. In bad weather!Īdjutant: A brilliant plan, Herr General. I choose the farthest distance, and when the weather is at its worst! I'll attack here!. Marcks: I will win because I go against the rules, Schiller! We expect them to attack at Pas-de-Calais, at the narrowest point of the Channel, don't we! And in good weather, too! But that's too simple, my dear. The invasion in a sandbox! Adjutant: Winning or losing, Herr General? Marcks: Have I ever lost? Adjutant: It's just that Herr General will be playing the role of Eisenhower this time. War games! Theoretical invasions! To go all the way to Rennes, just to push little flags around a table with other generals. Adjutant: Have you finished the plan, Herr General? Gen. This invasion, gentlemen, wherever and whenever it may come, there! - right at the water's edge - right there I will break it up! Believe me, gentlemen, the first twenty-four hours of the invasion will be decisive! For the Allies, but also for the Germans, it will be the longest day. Not one soldier of the Allies will ever reach the shore. But gentlemen, not one man of the Allies shall set foot upon the beach. a monster! A solid mass of men, ships and planes which is lying in wait to be released upon us. A small strip of water between England and the continent, between the Allies and us. Rommel: My dear Herr von Salmuth, what would your men rather like to be: exhausted or dead? Just have a look at this, gentlemen. There can be no talk about sufficient rest. Oberstleutnant Hans von Salmuth: Our men have been operating without a pause, Herr Feldmarschall. Rommel: Until May it must be six! Six million! How many have been installed so far?Īdjutant Lang: Approximately four million, Herr Feldmarschall. On every beach, in every dune, on every cliff. Suppose it's always like that? I mean war.ĭialogue Feldmarschall Erwin Rommel: We need mines and obstacles along the whole coast. Flight Officer David Campbell: He's dead.The Fuhrer is not to be awakened!!! I sometimes wonder which side God is on. We are witnessing something which historians will always say is completely improbable. We are going to lose the war because the glorious Fuhrer has taken a sleeping pill. Günther Blumentritt: We are living an historical moment. Let us keep our faith intact, steadfast! For each of us, deliverance is coming. Father Louis Rolland: In the heart of the darkness, in the deepest of the night, we must never lose hope.Lt-Col Benjamin Vandervoort: You can't give the enemy a break.