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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jul 29, 2008 1:28 PM
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When in doubt about the source of a WW2 quotation, it is a good bet to attribute it to Churchill.
"The most exhilarating moment man can experience is to be shot at and missed." http://www.b17sam.com
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jul 29, 2008 2:53 PM
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> When in doubt about the source of a WW2 quotation, it
> is a good bet to attribute it to Churchill.
> "The most exhilarating moment man can experience is
> to be shot at and missed."
> http://www.b17sam.com
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> www.b17sam.com
> 35 missionns on B17 from Ludwigshafen to Berlin
Churchill was a great orator, no doubt, but, he also didn't mind stealing qoutes from others.......His "Blood,sweat and tears" qoute is a knock off from Garibaldi and his...."We Will Fight On The Beaches" came from someone else too......Just can't remember right now.
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jul 29, 2008 5:07 PM
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Anything from Gen. George S. Patton!!
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Don't know if it's been mentioned yet....
Jul 29, 2008 6:16 PM
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"To the German commander...NUTS!"
--- Gen. MacAuliffe, Bastogne, Dec. 1944
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"I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." --- Ian Fleming
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Re: Don't know if it's been mentioned yet....
Jul 29, 2008 10:25 PM
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GEEZ! I wish I hadn't invaded Poland!
GEEZ! I wish I hadn't declared war on the USA!
GEEZ! I wish I hadn't though of that stupid 'Barbarossa' idea.
GEEZ! I wish I hadn't been born!
Adolph Schiklegrubber.
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jul 30, 2008 8:03 AM
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Churchill to Eisenhower on the subject of golf after Ike expresses his love for the game.
"Golf ... what a fine way to ruin a perfectly good walk"
and probably the funniest thing a ww2 buff will ever hear was said by heidi klum on some tv show
"We germans have a saying; it is better to have loved and lost ... then to engaged in a land war with russia in the winter time"
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jul 30, 2008 11:01 AM
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Hitler: Where is the spirit of the soldiers in 1941?
german general: those men are dead and burried in Russia...
Unknown Allied pilot flying over Germany: "the war has to be over, there is nothing left to bomb"
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Re: Don't know if it's been mentioned yet....
Jul 30, 2008 3:33 PM
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> GEEZ! I wish I hadn't invaded Poland!
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> GEEZ! I wish I hadn't declared war on the USA!
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> GEEZ! I wish I hadn't though of that stupid
> 'Barbarossa' idea.
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> GEEZ! I wish I hadn't been born!
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> Adolph Schiklegrubber.
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> Edited by john39 at 07/29/2008 10:26 PM
I love the "just kidding" aspect of the quotes and don't forget 'Hitler and I have a non-agression pact so those german soldiers must just be out mushroom hunting".
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Jul 31, 2008 7:53 AM
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"We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down"
- adolf hitler.
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Aug 1, 2008 10:38 AM
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i was watching an old film real of a b-17 bombing run over the Reich and i heard one from the narrator i liked.
"it's thunder out of the Allegheny ... Adolf, you said americans were soft and decadent? we'll here's a red, white and blue headache that'll help you change your mind"
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Aug 1, 2008 12:14 PM
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how has no one caught this one? another great one from the cigar chomping englishman.
"Never in the feild of human conflict ... was So much owed ... by So many ... to So few ...."
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jul 1, 2009 9:03 PM
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Any new ones?
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Why join the Army and sleep in the dirt and eat MREs when you can sleep in a bunk and get steak and eggs in the Navy?
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jul 2, 2009 9:03 AM
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"A field marshall does not kill himself with nail clippers"
-Friederich Paulus
"The war starts here."
-Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr
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If irony were strawberries we would all be having smoothies right now.
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jul 2, 2009 4:34 PM
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After returning from a mission to Merseberg where we had the crap kicked out of us, our waist gunner, Ray Kuenzler, looked at me wearily and said, "Sam, you just can't beat a real good war." That attempt at gallows humor later became the title of my novel, A Real Good War.
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Re: What are some of your favorite WWII quotes?
Jul 3, 2009 12:31 PM
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If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Joseph Goebbels
"Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish though eternal peace."
Adolf Hitler
"There are two possibilities for me: To win through with all my plans, or to fail. If I win, I shall be one of the greatest men in history. If I fail, I shall be condemned, despised and damned."
Adolf Hitler
"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
"For the burned cities and villages; for the deaths of our children and our mothers; for the torture and humiliation of our people; I swear revenge upon the enemy… I swear that I would rather die in battle with the enemy then surrender myself my people and my country to the Fascist invaders. Blood for blood! Death for death!"
Russian War Oath
"The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives."
Admiral William Daniel Leahy (advising President Truman on the U.S. atom bomb project, 1945)
"Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning."
Colonel David M. Shoup (Tarawa, November 21, 1943)
"Goddam it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!"
Captain Henry P. "Jim" Crowe (Guadalcanal, January 13, 1943)
"We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pssing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit."
General George S. Patton, Jr. (addressing to his troops before Operation Overlord, June 5, 1944)
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