Ww2 Pacific War Quotes

“Yes. Japan will overrun us," the scholar said. "But we will turn them into Chinese. Give us five hundred years. You wait.”
― Kiana Davenport, Song of the Exile

“Perhaps the final proof that the war was really over came at six o’clock on the first evening, with the pipe - ‘children to supper’.”
― John Winton, The Forgotten Fleet

“Time had no meaning; life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all.”
― Eugene B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

“This book is to inspire, to be a source of hope for the hopeless, and to show us all how the fantastic light of almighty God reigns regardless of horrible situations we encounter in life.”
― Frank Bland, A Rope from Above: at Pearl Harbor