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“He had been marking time in Pearl Harbor for two months, and two and a half months remained before D-Day on Iwo Jima. “The trouble now is that I do not have enough work thrust on me to keep me busy, and I am too lazy to dig up work for myself. Hence, I wish the time would come to start moving again. On board ship, if there is not much to do, I can sit down and read a book, but here I feel more or less obliged to keep office hours and reading a book during office hours does not look well.”
― Thomas B. Buell, The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance

“In considering a nuclear war of the future, Spruance later wrote, “I am still opposed to the idea of war being conducted by mass destruction of civilian targets by long range missiles armed with nuclear warheads. I recognize that, if our enemy has them, we must be prepared to counter an attack and probably to retaliate in kind. I hope that the responsible governments of the world will be successful in their negotiations to prevent such a situation from ever coming to pass.”
― Thomas B. Buell, The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance

“As it turned out, Spruance was able both to revitalize the War College and to relax while doing it, owing to his ability to get other people to do the work for him.”
― Thomas B. Buell, The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance

“On one bizarre night the Japanese landed a transport plane on an American airfield, and 22 Japanese commandos galloped out and proceeded to destroy 7 parked aircraft and 70,000 gallons of aviation gasoline.”
― Thomas B. Buell, The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance