Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.

With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But that trouble is imminent is obvious.

Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.

I was fascinated by the [operation] of a U-boat ... where every single man was an indispensable part of the whole. Every submariner, I am sure, has experienced in his heart [the joy of] the task entrusted to him [and] felt as rich as a king.

I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.