Chester W. Nimitz Quotes

No Other Island Received As Much Preliminary Pounding As Did Iwo Jima.

Through The Skill And Devotion To Duty Of Their Armed Forces Of All Branches In The Midway Area Our Citizens Can Now Rejoice That A Momentous Victory Is In The Making.

We Must Not Again Underestimate The Japanese.

The Battle Of Iwo Island Has Been Won. The United States Marines By Their Individual And Collective Courage Have Conquered A Base Which Is As Necessary To Us In Our Continuing Forward Movement Toward Final Victory As It Was Vital To The Enemy In Staving Off Ultimate Defeat.

The Enemy Of Our Games Was Always Japan, And The Courses Were So Thorough That After The Start Of World War Ii, Nothing That Happened In The Pacific Was Strange Or Unexpected.

We Shall Never Forget That It Was Our Submarines That Held The Lines Against The Enemy While Our Fleets Replaced Losses And Repaired Wounds.

Our Present Control Of The Sea Is So Absolute That It Is Sometimes Taken For Granted.

The Japanese Had, In Fact, Already Sued For Peace. The Atomic Bomb Played No Decisive Part, From A Purely Military Point Of View, In The Defeat Of Japan.

I Felt That It Was An Unnecessary Loss Of Civilian Life... We Had Them Beaten. They Hadn't Enough Food, They Couldn't Do Anything.

Among The Men Who Fought On Iwo Jima, Uncommon Valor Was A Common Virtue.

The Best That Science Can Devise And That Naval Organization Can Provide Must Be Regarded Only As An Aid, And Never As A Substitute For Good Seamanship.

Hindsight Is Notably Cleverer Than Foresight.