Airplane Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If an enemy ship cannot be taken over by our own crews, it must be sunk! There is to be no deviation from that!”

— Michael G. Kramer

Whether it is a big ship or small ship, the same size hole placed correctly in the hull can sink it.

— Ed Parker

If a war breaks out with the United States, the navy will have to put all its strength into interceptive operations, so... massive sea-borne…

— Isoroku Yamamoto

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet.

— Jerry Costello

Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance he'd have…

— John W. Weeks

The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if…

— Hideki Tojo

I would attack any squadron blockading a port. Nothing could prevent me from dropping out of the clear blue sky on to a battleship…

— Jules Vedrines

The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane,…

— Christopher Cockerell

You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That…

— John Buchan

What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.

— Lynn Dickey

“One matter has been settled by this war which my association with the Navy has led me to be particularly interested in. The U-boat…

— Albertus Wright Catlin