At one point during the Normandy invasion on D-Day in 1944, the ratio of enlisted men to officers approached an astounding level of 5 to 1. "Never in the history of human combat," General Maxwell Taylor wryly declared, "have so few been led by so many."
[A play, of course, 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."]
Sources
J. Keegan, Six Armies in Normandy
