Quote of the day III

Nice quote, and I quite agree. You just might make it into our Historical Quotes database.

 

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

von Stauffenberg

 

" Victory has many fathers
Defeat is always an orphan!"

Count Ciano

 

The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration. - George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army

 

The fate of two great empires seem to be tied up in some goddam things called LSTs!

Winston Churchill-after being told D-Day was postponed due to a shortage of landing ships

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If it's silver its American, if it's dark it's British, and if it's invisible, it's ours.

German joke about aircraft-1944

 

"By going only half that distance I could be in Moscow."

Guderian in August 1941 refusing to turn towards Kiev

 

"The Russian colossus...has been underestimated by us...whenever a dozen divisions are destroyed the Russians replace them with another dozen."

General Franz Halder - Army Chief of Staff - August 1941

 

" Yes, it seems our Führer is correct, and we have won the war in the east..."

Franz Halder in early July 1941

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Maybe something to do with the OKH figures....

By 8 July 1941, OKH estimated that the Russians had only 46 combat-worthy divisions left; by 23 July this figure had risen to 93 divisions....( to be continued ).

 

Interesting how he changed his mind 1 month later as proven by the quotes provided above and how he only held his job for only 1 more year after, as he was fired in 42' for being " too soft ".... then sent to prison camps.

 

"Our profession should always be crowned by heroic death in battle"

Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock

 

"Goddam it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!"
Captain Henry P. Jim Crowe - 13th January 1943 - (Guadalcanal)

 

" I don´t understand why people think I am taking this country to a new war. War?! It doesn´t solve anything!"

Adolf Hitler November 10, 1933.

 

"I came, I saw, I pissed my pants."

 

"These soldiers had adrenaline pumping through their veins and itchy trigger fingers. They looked fearsome. I recognized them as Rangers from their dress and the black, red and white insignia on their sleeve and knew instantly to respect them." -A German soldier at Anzio

 

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

 

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

Capitaine Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer

1894-1917

 

"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

 

"The world does not exist for cowardly nations."

From Mein Kampf.

 

"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, boys"

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

 

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