Air force Quote by Tom Young

“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

“Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.”

— Joseph Wheelan

“U-boat commanders called this their 'Happy Time'. Between January and July 1942 they sank 495 merchant ships and 142 tankers, a total of 2,500,000…

— Derek Robinson

“Let me see a complete reorganization of the North Atlantic fleet’s defensive strategy against Nazi U-boats. And if it won’t go on one side…

— Patrick Robinson

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

— Winston Churchill

“Ironically, the last aircraft carrier to sink as a result of the Battle of Midway was an American one. By the early afternoon on…

— Charles River Editors

“The enemy was not waiting for death, they hit back, concentrating all their fire on the cruiser Never Tell Me The Odds, knocking back…

— Craig Alanson

“The Spanish fleet was beautiful and terrifying. The great battleships were clouds of sail scudding before the wind while their xebecs and frigates ran…

— M. Kei

“Bearing a banner of American democracy, the United States was, in other words, on the move — producing planes, tanks, and matériel on a…

— Nigel Hamilton

“Any man who had foretold such disasters this day last year would have been treated as a madman or a traitor. He would've been…

— Peter Marshall

“Vice-Admiral Scheer’s own confidential report to Wilhelm II. Here he made the tendentious, and highly questionable, assertion that “even the most successful outcome of…

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“that the shaky premiss on which British fleets had, for two generations, been practised and led – the assumption that tactical signals could be…

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon