Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed.

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Liberation of Paris

With the coast of Normandy eventually secured Allied forces advanced toward Paris. Most D-Day commanders assured their men that the Germans would be annihilated by the Allies' pre-invasion firepower and that the defenders were in any case outnumbered inexperienced and demoralized. It required him to send three regiments on diverging paths to three different objectives.

Norman Daniel "Dutch" Cota Sr. Cota was heavily involved in the planning and execution of the invasion of France codenamed Operation Neptune and the subsequent Battle of Normandy.