Just do your job, do what you have to do, and get to it, and get it done, and get back.
-Harold Thomas Brown

We got over after dark, got up the next morning, and there were still pieces of dead people laying around from a battle a couple of days before. I flopped over and my hand hit a shoe and it still had a foot in it. You get used to it. You just don't think about it.
-Harold Thomas Brown

For the most part, I'd say, people would die for their friend. They really would. For each other, for the cause, to gain victory over Japan and Germany, they'd gladly die to do it.
-Phil Jorgensen

What war does is bring on more advanced technology. The necessity is the mother of invention. When you go to war, you've got to have a superior weapon. So you develop it.
-Frank Biagi

It [World War II] gave me a strong sense of citizenship. And it also gave me pride in my country.
-LaMont L. Bennett

"NO SAILORS OR DOGS ALLOWED"
-A sign found in some southern cities having military bases.

That's the attitude, not to run, be patriotic. You should love that flag like nothing in the world.
-Melba Oldroyd

My God, what have we done.
-Robert Lewis (co-pilot on the Enola Gay , the plane which dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima)

One oddity that I have thought a lot about was we were well trained in methods of hate. That's one way the Army's got to make us fight.
-Bill McKinlay

The war brought a sense of closeness. Our unit was small, two hundred and fifty of us; we all came right close to one another. We got so that everyone knew the other and I met an awful lot of good friends.
-John Nielson