Best Non-WW2 Quotes -Split from best WW2 quotes-

D'oh!!!
I can't actually make a mistake here, can I? I misread the post, didn't see the Dec 46, just a bunch of numbers (I'm sick, remember...) Sorry...

Of course, VE day was may 8th and VJ day was officially september 1st I believe.

 

Holy mackeral, look at all them******* indians.
(George Custer.Little Bighorn!)

 

who dat den?

"And still they gaz'd,and still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew"

WHO DAT DEN???
Your starter for ten!

 

That one's gonna cost me, I haven't got a clue on't.

 

non ww2 quotes

"The Village Schoolmaster" poem by
Oliver Goldsmith. (1728-1774)
Could well apply to correspondents to this Forum.The knowledge of some of the younger members simply amazes me.(Which doesn't take much to do!)

 

"Nuts"

:smok:

 

goldsmith

Nuts? Nuts? Like the german officer at Bastoigne I fail to see the connection with Oliver Goldsmith>
Goldsmith's "Village Schoolmaster" was held in great respect by the villagers because of his great knowledge, I genuinely respect the tecnical knowledge and wish to learn shown by the young people born long after the War.Some of them in this Forum as young as 13years.
May be if they learn enough, they will not have fry in a burning tank.
It's no more pleasent now to die in a tank in Iraq than it was 60years ago in Normandy. There,s more to Tanks than Bull Parades and Dress uniforms.

 

Re: goldsmith

Well said tankpark.

 

I believe the thread is for famous WW2 quotes.

My quote had nothing to do with your post.

"Nuts" is a famous WW2 quote.

That's all.

:smok:

 

nuts

Quite true,WW2 quote, I remember it well.
But I thought that this section was "Non WW2 Quotes"?

 

FAMOUS non WW2 quotes

That US civil war general who said They couldnt hit an elephant at this range just before being shot off his horse due to extreme longe range rifled target rifles that effectively tripled the danger zone range

 

Hmm, Greg, the topic title I believe is "Best Non-WW2 Quotes - split from "Best WW2 Quotes" - "...

Tankpark, well said and thanks for the compliment

 

I really don't see the signal

Midway through the battle of Copenhagen, Sir Hyde lost his nerve and sent out the recall signal. Nelson, knowing that this was no time to flee, put his blind eye to good use by putting his telescope to it and saying, "I really don't see the signal." Sticking out the fight, he crushed the Danish fleet. Subsequently he was made a viscount, the title he would take with him to his death.

 

The "retreat hell, we're just attacking in another direction" quote should be moved here from the WWII qoutes. It was from the U.S. 1st Marine Division's battle with the Chinese communists at Chosin in Korea, not Douglas MacArthur in WWII.

 

Thanks for the clarification. The quote was never accompanied by any comment from the author or where he got it. Now we know.

I still can't split single posts and move them to other topics though.

 

Re: FAMOUS non WW2 quotes

That would be Major General John Sedgwick, commanding officer of the 6th Corps of the Army of the Potomac. The incident occured during the initial stages of the Battle of Spotsylvania. General Sedgewick was *not* mounted at the time, BTW.

 

Who was the commander who said "today we will have victo - " and couldn't finish his sentence because he was shot dead by enemy fire?

 

"Dreihundert und zwei"
Gerhard Barkhorn when he was pulled out from wrecked Kestrel.

(Actually I don't know if this story is true but it is so funny )

 

"Forget manuevering, always go straight at them"

Admiral Horatio Nelson

 

Battles were often won before they are fought.

Sun Tzu