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Offline Pigslilspaz

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WWII Quotes
« on: January 23, 2011, 03:35:09 AM »
Post some of your favorite quotes here.

The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.

— General Chuck Yeager, USAF, describing his first confrontation with a Me262.

Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman.

— Colonel Erich 'Bubi' Hartmann, GAF.

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Re: WWII Quotes
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2011, 03:40:00 AM »
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« Last Edit: January 23, 2011, 03:48:22 AM by MachFly »
"Now, if I had to make the choice of one fighter aircraft above all the others...it would be, without any doubt, the world's greatest propeller driven flying machine - the magnificent and immortal Spitfire."
Lt. Col. William R. Dunn
flew Spitfires, Hurricanes, P-51s, P-47s, and F-4s

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Re: WWII Quotes
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2011, 03:48:01 AM »
“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.” By Winston Churchill

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference ” By Winston Churchill

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” By Winston Churchill

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” By Winston Churchill

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” By Winston Churchill

“I never worry about action, but only inaction.” By Winston Churchill

“If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.” By Winston Churchill

“If you are going through hell, keep going.” By Winston Churchill

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” By Winston Churchill

“It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.” By Winston Churchill

“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.” By Winston Churchill

“Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.” By Winston Churchill

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” By Winston Churchill

“Never, never, never give up.” By Winston Churchill

“’No comment’ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.” By Winston Churchill

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” By Winston Churchill

“One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!” By Winston Churchill

“Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” By Winston Churchill

“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.” By Winston Churchill

“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.” By Winston Churchill

“Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.” By Winston Churchill

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” By Winston Churchill

“The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.” By Winston Churchill

“The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.” By Winston Churchill

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.” By Winston Churchill

“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” By Winston Churchill

“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.” By Winston Churchill

“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.” By Winston Churchill

“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.” By Winston Churchill

“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.” By Winston Churchill

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” By Winston Churchill

“We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” By Winston Churchill

“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” By Winston Churchill

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.” By Winston Churchill

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” By Winston Churchill

"If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off." Chuck Yeager

"Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own." Chuck Yeager

"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done." Chuck Yeager


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"Now, if I had to make the choice of one fighter aircraft above all the others...it would be, without any doubt, the world's greatest propeller driven flying machine - the magnificent and immortal Spitfire."
Lt. Col. William R. Dunn
flew Spitfires, Hurricanes, P-51s, P-47s, and F-4s

Offline MarineUS

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Re: WWII Quotes
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2011, 04:05:59 AM »
golly gee - he must be a churchill fan :P


Any quote about Marines works :P
Like, ya know, when that thing that makes you move, it has pistons and things, When your thingamajigy is providing power, you do not hear other peoples thingamajig when they are providing power.

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Re: WWII Quotes
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2011, 04:19:29 AM »
"The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others."

Adolf Hitler

"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."

Adolf Hitler
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Re: WWII Quotes
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2011, 06:43:58 AM »
"sir, we are surrounded!" yells a marine

"Good" replies Chesty Puller "now we can attack in every direction!"


or

"NOT ONE STEP BACKWARDS" - Josef Stalin
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Re: WWII Quotes
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2011, 07:24:39 AM »
"In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it."- Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
"If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there."- Marshall Geogi Zhukov
"Just drive down that road, until you get blown up"- General George Patton
"Come with me and I will show you where the Iron Crosses grow." -Unteroffizer/Feldwebel Rolf Steiner

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Re: WWII Quotes
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2011, 07:27:34 AM »
"Nuts"

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Re: WWII Quotes
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2011, 08:44:24 AM »
"You're never beaten until you admit it." - General George S. Patton
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Re: WWII Quotes
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2011, 09:35:27 AM »
Operation Barbarossa would make the world "Hold its Breath" - Adolf Hitler

It may have been a success if it were not for the pesky Commies :old:
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Re: WWII Quotes
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2011, 12:35:53 PM »
"My God, what have we done?" - Captain Robert Lewis
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Re: WWII Quotes
« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2011, 12:55:08 PM »
"When being shot at, Shoot back" -Rommel
"One observation is worth 1,000 reports" -Patton
"AAA-O" =anything, anywhere, any time bar nothing -Colonel Harry Albert "Paddy" Flint
You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." - Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Death is no easy answer
For those who wish to know
Ask those who have been before you
What fate the future holds
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Re: WWII Quotes
« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2011, 12:56:18 PM »
Not from WWII but attributed to a Marine Corps Sgt Maj during the Siege of Khe sahn combat base, "You, You, and You......Panic the Rest of ya Follow me..... :salute
You dragged the dead horse into the yard and handed out the bats, sir.

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Re: WWII Quotes
« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2011, 12:59:01 PM »
"It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army" -Josef Stalin

"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."  - General Norman Cota: Omaha Beach, 1944

"I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind." - General George S. Patton

"Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them.  The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties.  The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders."
- Attributed to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel,
on how he selects officers for staff and command.  (Has to be one of my favorites)

"The Pope! how many divisions has he got?"
- Stalin
In 1935, a French visitor asked Soviet leader Josef Stalin if he thought Pope Pius XI might prove to be an ally.

"Tell my son Josef that he will meet my divisions in eternity."
- Reply from the Pope when he heard the story years later.

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Re: WWII Quotes
« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2011, 01:00:09 PM »
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking".     George S. Patton
"If everyone is thinking alike, then someone is not thinking"