[Tailgunner Joe]

If we really wanted to help Stalin then we would have invaded across the channel in '42 or '43 before Stalingrad and Kursk when Stalin was demanding this.

[Patton@Bastogne]

we were nowheres near ready for a cross-channel invasion in 42 or 43 ... we were still fighting for the first vestiges of air superiority ... we were very in-experienced ... the germans would blown us away ...