Michael Scott Quote by Steve Carell

They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want…

— Barney Ross

“water. Another sailor rescued him. But Carson refused to sit onshore and recover. Instead he answered a bugler’s call for help on the Tennessee.…

— Patricia Brennan Demuth

“They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple…

— Evan Wright

“In World War II, 35,933 AAF planes were lost in combat and accidents. The surprise of the attrition rate is that only a fraction…

— Laura Hillenbrand

Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.

— Richard Ben-Veniste

“The Chicago Daily News Foreign Service presents herewith the first attempt to recount historically one of the great American tragedies of the Pacific War:…

— George Weller

The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.

— Henry H. Arnold

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers…

— Jack Adams

“Beyond the deprivations, degradations, and tortures these prisoners endured, each man often recounts how he got to the camps Weller visited. These conflicts, and…

— George Weller

“In September 1942, a B-17 crashed in the Pacific, stranding nine men on a raft. Within a few days, one had died and the…

— Laura Hillenbrand

How could they possibly be Japanese planes?

— Husband E. Kimmel

In addition to surviving the Forrestal, McCain has survived three other plane disasters, including being shot down over enemy territory.

— John Dickerson