At one point during the Normandy invasion on D-Day in 1944, the ratio of men to officers approached an astounding 5 to 1. "Never in the history of human combat," Taylor declared, "have so few been led by so many."
[Taylor's announcement, of course, is a play on Winston Churchill's famous comment on the battle of Britain in 1940: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."]
Source: J. Keegan, Six Armies in Normandy
Taylor, Maxwell D[avenport] (1901- ), US army officer, military adviser to John F. Kennedy
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