Stephen Ambrose in his book D-Day on the infantry

Stephen Ambrose in his book D-Day on the infantry: “It was not a miracle. It was the infantry. The plan had called for the air and naval bombardments, followed by tanks and dozers to blast a path through the exits so that the infantry could march up the draws and engage the enemy, but the plan had failed, utterly and completely failed. As is almost always the case in war, it was up to the infantry.”