Frasi di William F. Halsey

William Frederick Halsey è stato un ammiraglio statunitense.

Durante la seconda guerra mondiale, comandò la terza flotta statunitense per buona parte della guerra contro il Giappone. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Ottobre 1882 – 16. Agosto 1959
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William F. Halsey: Frasi in inglese

“I'll take it! If anything gets in my way, we'll shoot first and argue afterwards.”

On taking responsibility for the war, as quoted in Joseph Bryan, Admiral Halsey's story (1947), p. 76.

“Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell.”

Remark in December 1941, after the attack of Pearl Harbor, as quoted in Roger Parkinson, Attack on Pearl Harbour (1973), p. 117; James Bradley, Flyboys (2004), p. 138.

“There are no great men, there are only great challenges, which ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.”

Quoted in the Congressional Record, 11 December 1971 http://books.google.com/books?id=ltuwtwQcKHwC&q=%22There+are+no+great+men+there+are%22+%22only+great+challenges+which+ordinary+men+like+you+and+me+are++forced+by+circumstances+to+meet%22&pg=PA46480#v=onepage.

“Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs!”

Reported in James Bradley, Flyboys (2004), p. 138; Thomas Evans, Sea of Thunder (2006), p. 1; Paul Fussell, Wartime (1990), p. 119.

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