The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He was a veteran among the Allies.

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision.

The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He was a veteran among the Allies.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.

Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army.

There are no bad regiments, there are only bad officers.