Of the great fighting pilots his tactics were the least cunning. Absolutely fearless, the odds made no difference to him. He would always attack, single out his man, and close.
Quote from Cecil Lewis about
Captain Albert Ball. VC DSO (2 bars) MIC
1896-1917

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"If one has not given everything, one has given nothing."

Capitaine Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer

1894-1917

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"To the last beat of the heart and the last kick of the motor; a death for a Knight. A toast to his fellows, friend and foe."

about one of his victims

Rittmeister Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthoffen

1892-1918

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"The world does not exist for cowardly nations."

From Mein Kampf.

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"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, boys"

Howell Maurice Forgy on 7th Dec 1941 during the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor

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"It's better to have good strict Captain than a bad merry one".
H. MELVILLE in Moby Dick.

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"...a calm and constructive debate might bring better results."

Walther von Brauchitsch informed Rommel in spring 1941 when Rommel was requesting the replacement of officers who "hitherto had excelled in battle".

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On "Black Friday" November 13th, 1942
Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan issued this order off Guadalcanal...

Odd ships commence fire to starboard, even ships to port."

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And he paid for it with his life. I don't see that he much a choice that fateful night, due in part to the decisions, good or bad, that he made before the battle.

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Best Regards,
JW

On October 11/12 1942 the USN got a little pre-payback when Admiral Aritomo Goto tried to reverse course and succeded in being the stem of a crossed "T". Believing he was being fired on by his own transport group, Aoba blindly turned into a salvo that struck him down mortally wounded.
Still believing it was his own people who killed him, with his last breaths he said..."Baka Yaro" roughly translated...Stupid Bastards.

Sea battles around Guadalcanal have been frequently described as... "A knife fight in a telephone booth."

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"The enemy who sees our regiment in combat, if they live through the battle, will know to run the next time they see us coming."

Colonel Harry A. "Paddy" Flint on AAA-O slogan

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"It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French."

Heinz guderian

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler

So numerous were submarine attacks on the Singapore-to-Empire trade routes in 1944 that a common saying in Singapore was that "one could walk from Singapore to Tokyo on American periscopes."

Little Known Facts

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" There are two types of people in this world.

Those who have been to war and seen war up close.

And those who haven´t.

It´s not the same animal."

Not a WW2 quote but from the movie Harrison´s flowers on the Bosnian war. Sorry I put it here but I thought it is a great quote (!) and fits here perfectly.

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War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Ernie Pyle

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"Older men declare war. But it's the youth who must fight and die!"
-Herbert Hoover

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler

FDR on Stalin...

"I think if I give him (Stalin) everything I possibly can, and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won't try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of peace and democracy."

"Of one thing I am sure," FDR said at Yalta, "Stalin is not an imperialist."

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"If you want to hear God laugh, say your plans out loud."
from "Deadwood"

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"The nuclear bomb is here to say. Are we?"

From a WW2 document...

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