Don Rickles Quotes

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

I was in the Pacific. The Pacific Theater, as they say.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

I was in World War Two at the battle of Okinawa.

My father fought in World War II at the Battle of the Bulge.

My father was a member of the Dunkirk Veterans Association.

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.

I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

My father was in the First World War.

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

War is declared against Japan, German and Italy.

My work as a naval officer in World War II enabled me to serve on 49 different South Pacific islands so that I came to know the area about as well as anyone.

I have an uncle who was heavily involved in World War 2, so over the years, I've talked to him many times.

My dad was my hero. He was part of the D-Day landings and came back to Reading in 1945 - I was born in 1946 - so the house was full of soldiers who'd been to war and that was obviously the main topic.

My grandfather served as a gunner aboard the U.S.S. Alabama in the Pacific theater during WWII.