Critical Quote by Mitsuo Fuchida

Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that…

— Chester W. Nimitz

“Unbeknownst to the Japanese, the main disadvantage Japan would have at Midway was the fact the U.S. could read their radio traffic. With the…

— Charles River Editors

“Midway was merely a convenient target chosen by Yamamoto to draw the Americans out, and both sides’ objectives were attritional attempts to degrade their…

— Charles River Editors

Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure…

— Isoroku Yamamoto

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

Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my generation, the…

— Colin Powell

If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal joys from…

— Barbara Holland

Destroyers were the first to herald our entrance into the war.

— Josephus Daniels

“THE EXPERIENCE OF WAR was extraordinarily diverse. The Eastern Front, where 90 percent of all Germans killed in combat met their fate, overwhelmingly dominated…

— Max Hastings

It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how…

— Antony Beevor

As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.

— James Forrestal

Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all…

— William A. Rusher