Graves B. Erskine Quotes
Victory was never in doubt. Only the cost was.
The Marines took about 25,000 casualties in capturing the Island with its two airfields close to the Japanese Mainland.
Graves B. Erskine, 1897–1973, Marine Corps General, Reflection on the WWII Battle of Iwo Jima, Quoted on The Military History Channel, The Battle of Iwo Jima, April 16, 2014
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Serbian Prime Minister Slobodan Milosevic
It was this code, and its implementation in Saipan, Okinawa, and other Japanese held islands taken by the allies that caused Japanese soldiers to fight to the death or commit suicide. The prospect of this code being followed by Japanese soldiers, civilians or both in an invasion of the Japanese mainland, was one of the major arguments in favor of dropping the Atomic Bomb in World War II.
Each day the German Airforce was sending air assaults over England. The English defenders were shooting down 2 Germans for every English plane lost. The British however were running out of pilots. Both sides were terribly weakened. However it was the Germans who cracked and called off the air assault prelude to the planned invasion of England.
Lev Davidovich Bronstein. The Reds finally won. Many millions of Russians died in the fighting; as many from disease; and even more from the starvation and executions that the victorious Reds (Bolsheviks) imposed on the peasantry who opposed the forced selling of the crops at low prices determined by the Communist government. During this period most of the Russian institutions collapsed. Trotsky, a leading Red, later broke with the Reds and went into exile in Mexico where he was murdered on orders of Stalin.
General Graves Blanchard Erskine was a United States Marine Corps officer who led the 3rd Marine Division during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
