(6 quotes found)
“Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here,”
Jimmy Doolittle
“I know you wrote a book on the raids, ... You know that's a federal offense, but you did a good job. I like you very much. You're one of my best gunners. Give me the book, and I'll mail it back to you after the war.”
“The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.”
“If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.”
“It would have been impossible to evacuate out of town. My grandparents both have health problems, and, financially, they had nowhere to go.”
“We've kept on top of it, ... We knew with storm after storm coming in the Gulf that a bad one was coming. We just didn't know how bad.”