Bases Quote by Holland Smith

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

— George Orwell

The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

— Anonymous

Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all…

— William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the…

— Chuichi Nagumo

“America experienced its first victory against the Empire’s expansion at the Battle of Coral Sea on May 7, 1942. In early June 1942, the…

— Charles River Editors

My uncles and my father were all in the Royal Navy. One of my uncles, as a matter of fact, was drowned in the…

— Vanessa Redgrave

I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence…

— Holland Smith

The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that…

— Chester W. Nimitz

“they had to deal with heavy artillery being fired at them by well-hidden units. The Japanese would open the steel doors to let their…

— Charles River Editors

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

For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation…

— Tom Clancy

There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942…

— Robert Cowley