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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 7, 2008 11:52 PM
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W.C. - "It will be long, and it will be hard"!
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 8, 2008 12:18 AM
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> W.C. - "It will be long, and it will be hard"!
That's strange because when told that his trousers buttons were undone, he replied, 'It's alright, the bird's dead in its nest, it won't fly.'
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 8, 2008 9:32 AM
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When I went to France last year, there was a brand new memorial next to the American Cemetery in Normanday. Part of this memorial included some quotes by the men who had stormed the beaches, and had fought in the Norman countryside beyond D-Day. One soldier, Sergeant John B. Ellery of the 1st Infantry Division, said that, "You can manufacture weapons, and you can buy ammunition. But you can't buy valor, and you can't pull heroes off an assembly line."
That just sounded like a very true statement of fact, coming from one of those soldiers who was on the frontline.
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Jun 8, 2008 11:55 AM
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Considering it was made before the mission, that would be a no.
He also kept a speech ready in case the Normandy invasion failed. The myth is that he kept that speech in his pocket throughout his presidency as a reminder of his own limitations.
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes? Winston again
Jun 9, 2008 3:51 AM
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Angus great story!-the confusion between Isiah Berlin and Winston. Did you know that Winston rejected the Freedom of the City of Dundee, Scotland, in 1943 because he was still miffed at being vioted out of his Dundee seat at Westminster by Dundonians who voted to replace Winston in the 1920's with a Prohibitionist(as In the Volstead Act in the USA).?
Winston did, in fact, accept the Freedom of Edinburgh award in October 1942 so following in the illustrious footsteps of Benjamin Franklin (1755) and General and President, U. S. Grant in 1877 and of course, Ike Eisenhower accepted the same honour in 1946.
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jun 12, 2008 11:54 AM
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Hitler will never ask me how big our bombers are, but only how many we have. - Hermann Goering
"Under the deeply moving impression of the capitulation of France I congratulate you and the whole German Wehrmacht on the mighty victory granted by God, in the words of Emperor Wilhelm the Great in 1870: 'What a turn of events brought about by divine dispensation.' In all German hearts there echoes the Leuthen chorale sung by the victor of Leuthen, the soldiers of the Great King: 'Now thank we all our God!'"
- Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1940 (on a letter to Hitler after the conquest of France)
"It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and dubious loyalty."
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
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Das Reich kommt wieder.
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jul 4, 2008 4:40 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"
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> -Unknown source. Quoted several times by Samuel
> Fuller in his films (see Steel Helmet, The Big Red
> One)
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That statement was reportedly made by Colonel George Taylor, Commanding Officer of the 16th Infantry (1st Infantry Division).
He landed at a disadvantage, having lost his Exec as well as the entire 35 man HQ Section the Exec had with him.
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I don't know if this is true or not...
Jul 4, 2008 6:11 PM
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But an ex-Marine told me years ago about a great quote from Greg Boyington. He and his squdron were flying in and out of cloud cover and he lost sight of the rest of the guys for a few minutes. Next thing they know, Pappy is on the radio yelling "Come on up, I've got five of them cornered up here!"
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Re: I don't know if this is true or not...
Jul 5, 2008 3:14 PM
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One of mine I read about came from the Battle Of Leyte Gulf. (I may be paraphrasing a bit, so don't slam me for minor errors please). It was from one of the Taffy 3 tincan sailors when told the Japanese battleships and cruisers were retreating said to the effect "Aw, damn, sir. Just when we were pulling them in to 20mm range".
I swear, all those guys in the Taffy's must have went 'clink' 'clink' 'clink' everytime they walked, having as big brass ones as those gutsy s.o.b.'s did.
Another was from Midway -- after the second, mortal, attack on the Yorktown, some of the DC crew were trapped below deck with no hope of escape. When called about it, they replied something to the effect of "Yeah, well thats okay. We've got a hell'uva Acey-Deucy game going down here".
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jul 7, 2008 8:07 PM
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Halsey, "There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet".
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jul 21, 2008 11:43 AM
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"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood.
But it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along to fight a war, ... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy.
All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Hermann Goering
"I suppose if we had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal."
Curtis LeMay
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jul 21, 2008 6:15 PM
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"Kilroy Was Here" .........was probably the most written qoute of the war.
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Jul 24, 2008 7:35 PM
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I fear we have only awakened a sleeping giant.
Isokoru Yamamoto,
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too bad you didn't read the post about that quote...
Jul 29, 2008 6:31 AM
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since 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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Edited by brndirt1 at 07/29/2008 6:33 AM
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