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“American naval aviators didn’t shy away from combat. They flew aggressively and were certainly more skillful than many of the Allied aircraft over Borneo, Java, and Malaya had been.”
Jonathan Parshall, Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
“calculation and boldness. (Photo courtesy John”
Jonathan Parshall, Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
“speed without having to burn any more gas. The downside of this”
Jonathan Parshall, Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
“submarines and motor torpedo boats, respectively,”
Jonathan Parshall, Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
“All of this leads to an unfortunate truth regarding decision-making during wartime that we at over eight decades remove often find difficult to comprehend: given an array of terrible and immoral options to pick from, sometimes the very best one can do is choose the least bad among them and then go forth and sin boldly.”
Jonathan Parshall, 1942: Crux of War

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