Books Quote by Joseph Wheelan

“no man who rises to command of a United States naval ship can possibly be a coward. And”

— Herman Wouk

“Out of a fired ship, which by no way But drowning could be rescued from the flame, Some men leap'd forth, and ever as…

— John Donne

“After all, in the midst of armed conflicts, facts are bound to be just as susceptible to injury as ships and men, if not…

— Amor Towles

“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

“World War II sea mines,”

— Andy Griffiths

“U-boats were on the run. Radar, sonar, aircraft, and new tactics by American and British destroyers had turned predators into prey. The future offered…

— Tom Young

“The dangers of the sea should always take precedence over the violence of the enemy”

— Ben Bryant

“Naval heroes are seldom immodest, but soldiers quite often are. It is said of one gallant general that publication of his book was delayed…

— John Colville

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in…

— Kurt Student

Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean…

— John Paul Jones

“a Marine company or two had less tactical value than a cruiser, let alone a battleship.”

— C.J. Carella

“Nicholas Monsarrat’s epic postwar novel of the Battle of the Atlantic, The Cruel Sea, is a quite different, nightmarish elemental story of men at…

— Victor Davis Hanson