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“The historical significance of the fact that we were going out on a joint raid with German Special Operations was lost on none of…

— Brandon Webb

“If you were AWOL when your company was going back into combat you might as well keep going because your own officers would blow…

— Charles Brandt

“The undeniable tactical skills and successes of the twentieth-century German military often obscure a greater truth: in wars the Germans always met defeat.”

— Geoffrey Jensen

“In equipment, Allied superiority was stifling. In guns it was 2½ to 1, in tanks 20 to 1. The Allies had some 14,000 planes,…

— Ladislas Farago

“British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war by their…

— Robert Jackson

For far too long we have continued to mark our military prowess by the size of our forces: believing that numbers of ships, planes,…

— Joe Sestak

“Only those who experienced our war in the East can truly picture its scale and ferocity. There are many of us who were there;…

— Wolfgang Faust

“Of the twenty-eight thousand German fighter pilots to see combat in WWII, only twelve hundred survived the war.”

— Adam Makos

“Never in the history of American warfare has this nation witnessed such an exhibition of cowardice, indecisiveness, incompetence, and laziness in the army’s senior…

— Dennis Byrne

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

One can only repeat about air warfare: we are in a position of almost hopeless inferiority and must grin and bear it as we…

— Joseph Goebbels

“In all armies, soldiers serving with forward combat units shared a contempt for the much larger number of men in the rear areas who…

— Max Hastings