John Eisenhower Quotes

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

My father was career military. He was a veteran, he was a doctor of political science, he taught at West Point and Air Command Staff and lectured at the War College.

My dad was a 30-year career Marine. He was stationed in Quantico Va., and another military base.

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

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

When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41.

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.

I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on a hospital ship in World War II, and one on my father's side had served in the Women's Royal Naval Service.

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

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

My father was in the military; he was a captain. His service was to quote-unquote integrate the Armed Forces overseas.

When my father served in World War II, he wasn't told, 'Go to Europe for four months, for six months, and then you can come back, and there'll be plenty of big bases there for you to serve on, and don't worry about it.'

I spent two and a half years in the Philippines in World War II.

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

I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is that I would rather be one of the good colonels than one of the poor generals. The colonel of a regiment has one of the most agreeable positions in the service, and one of the most useful. "A good colonel makes a good regiment," is an axiom.

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As for generals, there are those I admire as combat leaders and others I admire because they're great fun to write about.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.

Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a liminal experience forever separating them from civilians. Except... you go there, and it is what it is. A form of human activity as varied as any other.

My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for him, and he's shared some personal experiences with me.