George A. Taylor

Personal Account of Pvt. Warren Rulien and Pvt. Rual Radzam

“He [Col. Taylor] stopped across the sandbar and bullets began hitting the ware around him. He laid down on this stomach and started crawling toward shore, his staff officers doing the same. He has a couple of tattered-ass second louies following him. They looked like they were scared to death. When Taylor made it to the seawall, he told the other officers, ‘If we’re going to die, let’s die up there. To the other groups of men, Taylor said, ‘There are only two kinds of people on this beach: the dead and those about to die: So let’s get the hell out of here.”

-Ambrose, Stephen E., D-Day June 6 1944:
The Climatic Battle of World War II, p. 356.

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