Able Quote by Robert Cowley

“America experienced its first victory against the Empire’s expansion at the Battle of Coral Sea on May 7, 1942. In early June 1942, the…

— Charles River Editors

With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught…

— Mitsuo Fuchida

“After the Battle of Midway it was clear that the Pacific war would be won by planes launched from ships. Both Japan and the…

— Ken Follett

“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

“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

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

— Jack Adams

The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war.

— John McCain

When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last major action…

— Doug Stanton

For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the biography of…

— Dave Barry

By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945…

— Tom Wolfe

There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either.…

— Bobby Thomson