Hindsight Is Notably Cleverer Than Foresight.

The Battle Of Iwo Island Has Been Won. The United States Marines By Their Individual And Collective Courage Have Conquered A Base Which Is As Necessary To Us In Our Continuing Forward Movement Toward Final Victory As It Was Vital To The Enemy In Staving Off Ultimate Defeat.

The Best That Science Can Devise And That Naval Organization Can Provide Must Be Regarded Only As An Aid, And Never As A Substitute For Good Seamanship.

Our Present Control Of The Sea Is So Absolute That It Is Sometimes Taken For Granted.

I Felt That It Was An Unnecessary Loss Of Civilian Life... We Had Them Beaten. They Hadn't Enough Food, They Couldn't Do Anything.

The Enemy Of Our Games Was Always Japan, And The Courses Were So Thorough That After The Start Of World War Ii, Nothing That Happened In The Pacific Was Strange Or Unexpected.