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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 4, 2008 5:34 AM
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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!? >>
Which reminds me of another Churchill comment, on learning that Italy had entered the war on Germany's side: "It seems only fair, as we had them last time."
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 4, 2008 8:08 AM
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I was looking at the NY Times microfilm in the library for the Sunday Magazine edition for Sept. 1945. There is front page story about Japan right after the surrender. The Times sent reporters into Japan to interview officials and here are some of their prophecies:
"You Americans are on top now, but not for long..
"Give us twenty years and we will be back!
Nineteen years later Japan was a superpower and was the host of the 1964 Olympics. They did come back and they now control most of the world's markets for auto and electronics. They also own Rockefeller Center and most of Hawaii.
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 4, 2008 8:24 AM
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Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is portrayed in the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, as saying after his attack on Pearl Harbor, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." The supposed quotation was abbreviated in the film Pearl Harbor (2001), where it merely read, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant."
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even though it was wholly fiction,...
Jun 4, 2008 8:35 AM
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and made for the movie, it was a gooder. Too bad Yamamoto never said it. His quote after the attack had to do with the Samuri tradition which condemned not waking a sleeping opponent before attacking him. And he didn't make that until after he had discovered the message (which didn't declare war BTW) was delivered in D.C. after the attack.
That was added by the producers/screenwriters of the movie so that it would end on an "up-note" for the American audience.
Looked back, and from Dec. 7th, 2002; I (Clint) actually found the original post from David Aiken, at:
http://boards.historychannel.com/thread.jspa?threadID=4792&tstart=6915&start=-1
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Jun 4, 2008 11:27 AM
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I figured as much. Still, it sounded good on film. I was not aware of the connection of the saying to the code of the samuri.
Interestin' stuff.
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Re: To Clint Favourite quote?
Jun 4, 2008 6:52 PM
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For sheer cynicism-Joseph Stalin to Churchill and Roosevelt when the latter pair raised some point with the Georgian born monster about Poland and Catholicism-quoth a beaming Uncle Joe ''How many tank divisions has the Pope got?''
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Re: To Clint Favourite quote?
Jun 5, 2008 8:48 AM
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Stalin: "Churchill picks your pocket, but Roosevelt takes the big things."
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 6, 2008 11:51 AM
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"something as precious as the truth must have a constant body guard of lies." by the way that thing about japanese being spoken in hell is probably about the coolest quote i've ever heard.... "feed 'em the whole nine yards" being the second ... but preferably when it's being yelled in your ear while beating of an attack in the arden forest.
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 6, 2008 12:00 PM
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"When I warned [the French] that Britain would fight on alone, whatever they did, their Generals told their Prime Minister and his divided cabinet: 'In three weeks, England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.
"Some chicken....Some neck!
? Winston Churchill, Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, 30 December 1941.
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes? Winston again
Jun 6, 2008 7:46 PM
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Winston to an apolgetic Roosevelt who had stumbled into Winston's bathroom as Winston was climbing- naked-from the bath-''The First Minister of the British Empire has nothing to hide from the President of the United States...''
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes? Winston again
Jun 7, 2008 3:59 AM
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You'll like this Churchill one Brian.
Isaiah Berlin the famous philosipher based in Washington had been sending depatches to Churchill.
Irving Berlin the famous American songwriter had given thousands to Mrs Churchill's war charities.
Irving arrived in London in 1944 and Churchill thought he was Isaiah.
As told by Isaiah on the radio programme 'Desert Island Discs'
http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/tribute/2berlins.htm
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 7, 2008 5:46 PM
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"There are only two kinds of people on this beach, those who are dead and those who are going to die"
-Unknown source. Quoted several times by Samuel Fuller in his films (see Steel Helmet, The Big Red One)
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Admiral Nimitz re Iwo Jima
Jun 7, 2008 5:53 PM
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"Uncommon Valor was a common virtue". What more can you say?
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Jun 7, 2008 5:58 PM
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You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on
other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely.
But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats,
in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home
Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men.
The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!
I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in
battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!
Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
[Proof that Churchill didn't have a monopoly on good speeches]
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Jun 7, 2008 7:55 PM
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Could we consider that to be a "mission accomplished" speech?
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