Ernie Pyle

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.