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What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 1, 2008 7:18 PM
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What are some of your favorite WWII quotes, I've been trying to think of some, but I can only think of ones by Churchill lol.
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"Sir! We're surrounded!"
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I've always liked this one...
Jun 1, 2008 7:52 PM
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?Saw steamer, strafed same, sank same, some sight, signed Smith.? It was radioed by Captain Fred M. Smith from a P-38 after he had just sunk a whole warship unassisted.
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Re: I've always liked this one...
Jun 1, 2008 9:05 PM
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General MacAuliffe's ; "Nuts!"
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 2, 2008 8:42 AM
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"Are you going to lay there and get killed, or get up and do something about it?"
Unnamed Lieutenant, Easy Red sector, Omaha Beach.
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 2, 2008 9:04 AM
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Here's some:
1. "Make peace you fools!"--v. Runstedt(sp?) on being asked by OKH on what they should do about the Normandy situation, July, 1944.
2. "I could use some of those razor blades!"--Rommel when told by Goering that the only thing Americans were good at is making razor blades.
3. "It may be a bit much to ask Russians to fight in France for Germany against the Americans."--German General on asked what he thought of the "Ost" divisions he was getting in Normandy.
Harold
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Halsey as he steamed into Pearl...
Jun 2, 2008 12:29 PM
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after the attack;
"When we are through with them Japanese will only be spoken in h&ll!"
I believe without the atomics bringing the war to an end that may have well come to pass.
Another of Halsey's wonderful quotes was in referrence to being attacked by Japanese aircraft while the "surrender talks" and such were in progress and he was defending his fleet (paraphrasing); "...protect yourselves, but if necessary shoot the enemy down in a 'friendly manner'!"
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Re: Halsey as he steamed into Pearl...
Jun 2, 2008 12:44 PM
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Ziggy Sprague's answer during Taffy Three's after action report as to how he managed to survive the day:
"The definite partiality of the Almighty."
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 2, 2008 12:46 PM
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"The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage."
Emperor Hirohito, surrender address to the Japanese people.
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 2, 2008 1:28 PM
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"What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"
- Winston Churchill, June 18, 1940.
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Jun 2, 2008 3:25 PM
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>"...protect yourselves, but if necessary shoot the enemy down in a 'friendly manner'!"<
I have an original "Jap Hunting License" issued by Admiral Halsey to USS Enterprise crew (my dad).
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 2, 2008 5:10 PM
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Here's some of my favourites.
Chamberlain was such a nice old man, I gave him my autograph on a piece of paper - Hitler.
Lead me, follow me or get out of my way - Patton.
It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army - unknown.
If my mother had been British and my father American, instead of the other way around, I may have gotten here of my own accord - Churchill.
They have sown the wind, they will reap the whirlwind - Arthur Harris
When asked what was needed to win the battle of Britain, Galland replied to Goering 'A squadron of Spitfires'
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 3, 2008 2:11 PM
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Gobbles in reference to the skill of the Italian army in 1939:
?Whoever the Italians side with are sure to loose!?
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 3, 2008 2:43 PM
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So many good Churchill ones....
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!"
Churchill in the House of Commons, June 4, 1940.
This speech was one of the ones I studied in a public speaking class in college, an example of perfected rythm and alliteration. Churchill's "rumble" of a voice added an incredible drama to the words.
I can't hear the audio right now, but this appears to be a link to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=belzgoxfayo
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Jun 3, 2008 6:08 PM
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I believe refirgerators was included with the razor blades as the only thing Americans can make. 
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 3, 2008 6:22 PM
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"He who lights the torch in Europe can hope for nothing but chaos."- Hitler... than he goes and lights the torch, typical.
"Give me four years and I promise you, you will not recognize your towns!"-- Hitler. Prophetic wasn't he?
"Its only six miles private, shut up and do your job." --Unknown. I do like that quote though. It seems to sum up WWII, in an American, and for that matter, British way.
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Its only six miles private, shut up and do your job.
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