USS Wickes Dd-578/north Pacific Campaign December 1943 %e2%80%93 August 1944

Famous quotes containing the words campaign, august, december, pacific and/or north:

    Now, Mr. President, we don’t intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!
    Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

    I dream, therefore I exist.
    —J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)

    For I have lost the race I never ran,
    A rathe December blights my lagging May;
    Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849)

    Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn’t going to be won by charm and personality.
    —Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. First Sea Lord (Laurence Naismith)