I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being wasted. Being a minority group militarily, they are proud and sensitive in their dealings with other military organizations. A Marine's concept of a perfect battle is to have other Marines on the right and left flanks, Marine aircraft overhead and Marine artillery and naval gunfire backing them up.

Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.