George Patton supposedly said it, although the exact form is disputed.
26 Jun 2017, 12:18
WW2 quote game
A simple leisure game for the lulls between battles in CoW.
Rules: post a WW2-related quote; the question is who said it.
First to post the correct answer wins, and can ask the next one.
If no correct answer came within 24h, poster can ask a new one.
Please guys, no googling!
We'll start out with an easy one:
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. "
When the enemy is driven back, we have failed. When he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.
- Alexander Suvorov.
- Alexander Suvorov.
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26 Jun 2017, 17:44
My turn.
Recalling the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, who later wrote the following?
"Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.”
27 Jun 2017, 08:44
Wild guess: Admiral Yamamoto?
When the enemy is driven back, we have failed. When he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.
- Alexander Suvorov.
- Alexander Suvorov.
27 Jun 2017, 09:49
Nope. Who was happiest to see the Americans enter WW2?
27 Jun 2017, 16:56
Germans
27 Jun 2017, 17:08
K.Rokossovski wrote:
Wild guess: Admiral Yamamoto?
MontanaBB wrote:
Nope. Who was happiest to see the Americans enter WW2?
Nope. As far as I know, most of the German high command generals were not happy when their Boss declared war on the United States. Most of them understood the massive power of the American economy, even if some of them were openly contemptuous of the U.S. military.f118 wrote:
Germans
Any more guesses? It's actually a relatively famous quote -- especially if you happen to be a fan of the man who said it.
27 Jun 2017, 17:24
Admiral Bull Halsey?
27 Jun 2017, 17:37
Nope. Halsey was running scared with the USS Enterprise carrier group for 24 to 72 hours after the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor. He was not sleeping well.wheatking141 wrote:
Admiral Bull Halsey?
BTW, did you know that Halsey's "Bull" nickname was a complete fiction invented by the newspapers? All of his family and navy friends called him "Bill."
27 Jun 2017, 19:45
Winston Churchill then?
When the enemy is driven back, we have failed. When he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.
- Alexander Suvorov.
- Alexander Suvorov.
27 Jun 2017, 20:00
We have a winner.K.Rokossovski wrote:
Winston Churchill then?
Churchill wrote in The Second World War that he had not slept as well any night since the war began as he did the night he learned Pearl Harbor had been attacked by the Japanese navy. Churchill had been trying to persuade Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war on the side of Britain and the Empire for two years, while Roosevelt promised aid but stopped short of open war against the Germans ---- knowing that American public opinion was not yet ready. The attacks on Pearl Harbor made that moot, and Hitler gratuitously declared war on the United States 24 hours later. With American industrial production behind Britain (and the Soviet Union), Churchill knew it was only a matter of time and competent generalship until the Allies defeated Germany and then Japan.
27 Jun 2017, 20:18
The shortest WW2 quote I know: a commander's reply to an enemy delegation asking for the surrender of his encircled force to prevent further bloodshed.
"Nuts!"
When the enemy is driven back, we have failed. When he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.
- Alexander Suvorov.
- Alexander Suvorov.
28 Jun 2017, 03:33
The eloquent response of then-brigadier general Anthony McAuliffe, acting commander of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, when presented with the German commander's demand for the surrender of the 101st and the besieged town of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944.K.Rokossovski wrote:
"Nuts!"
28 Jun 2017, 08:14
Yup!
When the enemy is driven back, we have failed. When he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.
- Alexander Suvorov.
- Alexander Suvorov.
7 Jul 2017, 14:02
"Uncommon valor was a common virtue."
Who said it, and why is it often repeated today among the personnel of a particular military service?
8 Jul 2017, 13:18
Admiral Nimitz, commenting on either Okinawa or Iwo Jima, I forgot which one.
Dunno for which branch it is so legendary though, maybe Marines?
Next one:
"Never has a military operation been undertaken so much against the will of the commanders."
This was said about which campaign?
When the enemy is driven back, we have failed. When he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.
- Alexander Suvorov.
- Alexander Suvorov.
13 Jul 2017, 03:56
Patton and Churchill were both visceral anti-communists, but Churchill never regretted for a moment leading the charge to destroy Hitler and the Nazis. I've been an amateur Churchill scholar most of my adult life, and the second quote immediately struck me as out of character and inconsistent with everything I know about Churchill. A quick google search found this as the No. 1 search result:
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/9-quotes-from-winston-churchill-that-are-totally-fake-1790585636
The Churchill quote above is a fake.
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