The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

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 you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.

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

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.