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Admiral Cunningham at the evacuation of Crete where 16000 British were rescued, when told that the navy would lose too many ships. "It takes the Navy three years to build a ship. It will take three hundred years to build a new tradition. The evacuation will continue"

There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today-Admiral David Beatty,

The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are...