Army Quote by John Mearsheimer

“World War II ended in a battle for a single buildng, Germany's Reichstag...7,000 German troops defending the building...Nearly 5,000 men died in a battle…

— Andrei Cherny

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

— Lloyd Alexander

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“Most American view World War II nostalgically as the "good war," in which the United States and its allies triumphed over German Nazism, Italian…

— Oliver Stone

“World War II, alternately known as the Second World War, began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 and ended on…

— Merriam Press

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England…

— Peter Shaffer

“In the first half of 1944, battle casualty rates for every 1,000 bomber crewmen serving six months in combat included 712 killed or missing…

— Rick Atkinson

In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated.

— Joe Wurzelbacher

“The war in Europe was over. Germans called it die Stunde Null, zero hour. Cities lay in ruins. Allied bombing had destroyed more than…

— Annie Jacobsen

“The Germans had more men killed and wounded at Verdun, 325,000, than all the 230,000 men deployed in the field at Stalingrad twenty-six years later.”

— Joseph E. Persico

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

— Sebastian Junger

I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the story in…

— Bill Nighy