Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort Quotes in The Longest Day (1962)
Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort Quotes:
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Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort: You can't give the enemy a break. Send him to hell.
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Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort: I don't think I have to remind you that this war has been going on for almost 5 years. Over half of Europe has been overrun and occupied. We're comparative newcomers. England's gone through a blitz with a knife at her throat since 1940. I'm quite sure that they, too, are impatient and itching to go. Do I make myself clear?
Capt. Harding: Yes, sir. Quite clear.
Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort: 3 million men penned up on this island all over England in staging areas like this. We're on the threshold of the most crucial day of our times. 3 million men out there, keyed up, just waiting for that big step-off. We aren't exactly alone. Notify the men, full packs and equipment 1400 hours.
Capt. Harding: Yes, sir.
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Characters on The Longest Day (1962)
- Flight Officer David Campbell
- Pvt. Clough
- Private Flanagan
- Maj. Werner Pluskat
- Brigadier General Norman Cota
- Destroyer Commander
- Mayor of Colleville
- Lord Lovat
- Capt. Colin Maud
- Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
- Col. Caffey
- Major General Gunther Blumentritt
- Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt
- RAF pilot at flight base
- Private John Steele
- Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Luftwaffe major
- Maj. John Howard
- Capt. Harding
- Lt. Col. Ocker