The gunner’s mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not want to learn.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful

I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.

sunshine is just beyond the clouds” Carl Joesph Gunner

Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was…What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.