" Why don´t you kill off some of Luftwaffe Generals-it´s always the army Generals who go to the wall!"

General Hans Hube to Adolf Hitler on 18th January 1943 as he pointed out to Hitler that the air lift had failed and none of the air force Generals remained in the Stalingrad pocket.

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From Commander E.E.Evans to an enlisted man on the Bridge, USS Johnston while shooting at a range of 5,000 yards at Japanese Heavy Cruisers during Battle off Samar;
"Don't duck son, the ones you hear already missed you."

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Morbius, Morbius! Something is approaching from the Southwest. It is now quite close.

" Really? We got lots of them here..."

One year after the evacuation of Crete a S.O.E. reconnaissance party was sent to the island and after meeting some local people they told they were British and were to find out there were still quite alot of stragglers around...

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" Good God, you might have killed women and children!"

The Intelligence officer´s horrified notice as the British bombers in 1940 had bombed a steelworks in Holland instead of a German aerodrome ( which was empty and another object was chosen ). With the perverse irony of the times, they were taken off operations for three days for punishment.

From Hastings Bomber Command

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" Try to shoot down as many enemy fighters as possible!"

The best and ONLY strategy Göring could tell his Luftwaffe pilots during BoB

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"Only fishbait will reach the other side!"

Göring promised to Hitler as he sent the Luftwaffe to Dunkirk

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" Formation Pigpile! Go to England!"

Senior German Naval Officer Admiral Ruge realizing the potential of Seelöwe leading to huge confusion and suggested the word of command be the above mentioned.

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" The T-34 tips its hat whenever it meets a Tiger"

The German soldiers coined a phrase after seeing Tigers´ 88´s impact ripping off the turrets of many T-34´s.

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" We have a powerful ally in this matter, that is to say, the enemy has an air force general staff as well."

Albert Speer in 1944 after the major attacks on synthetic oil plants had suddenly stopped.

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Great liars are also great magicians!

Adolf Hitler

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" Even Michelangelo had need of marble to make statues. If he had only clay, he would have become a potter."

Mussolini explaining why his army was stopped at Menton France in 1940

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" I´ll deliver Ploesti oil fields to our Führer on his birthday!"

Sepp Dietrich just before the start of Operation Spring Awakening...

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"Is it really impossible to find a general who can win a battle?"

Winston Churchill on October 26, 1942

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" Unless you bring down 500 fortresses in the next big raid, you will go to the trenches!"

Göring to his pilots Ocotber 1944

What a great man to support and encourage his pilots!

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" The worst of it is that those damned Jabo´s don´t distinguish between Generals and anyone else- It was terrible!"

Sepp Dietrich autumn 1944

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" May God forgive me the last fourteen days of this war...as they are truly horrible days!"

Hitler during spring 1945 as he was talking about the vengeance weapons that would bring victory

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" What a glorius day...for killing Germans!"

Patton on 23rd Dec 1944 as the weather turned good and the sky was clear again...

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Make it three great ones for the weekend....

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill


When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- Winston Churchill


When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill

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"I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by a ringing of a bell are not to my liking; the bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring."
Benito Mussolini - (To his son in law) - 10th June 1941

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"...It's a Panther, no it's a Tiger..." "I don't care about the family just FIRE!!!"
--Russian tank commander to gunner.

( Found in the net...)

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Each thick finger, a fattened worm, gesticulates,
And his words strike you like they were many-pound weights.
His full cockroach moustache hints a laughter benigning,
And the shafts of his boots: always spotlessly shining.

Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938), Russian poet. “We Exist in a Country Grown Unreal and Strange,” trans by Vladimir Markov and Merrill Sparks.

This satire of Stalin led to Mandelstam’s arrest and exile to a concentration camp. ( surprise surprise...)

http://education.yahoo.com/reference...ns/quote/47789

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