Air power Quote by Husband E. Kimmel

The Japanese are hard to figure out.

— Jerry Garcia

I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.

— Terry Pratchett

But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams…

— Hayao Miyazaki

They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want…

— Barney Ross

Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.

— Bob Hope

The only English words I saw in Japan were Sony and Mitsubishi

— Hussein Nishah

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than…

— Jack Adams

“This points to another problem the Japanese had: coordination of their immediate fleet defense was difficult. Unlike the Americans, they had no radar and…

— Charles River Editors

“The organization of high-tempo air operations from carriers remains an extremely challenging proposition even today, but in June 1942, the Japanese were world leaders…

— Charles River Editors

I'm not a big fan of Russian airlines where you can tell the plane is about 50 years old.

— Martin Kemp

Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

— Isoroku Yamamoto

For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt