We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.

The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.

We must not again underestimate the Japanese.

By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.