Wise Words
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The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them. - Field Marshal Archibald P. Wavell.
Up there the world is divided into b**t*rds and suckers. Make your choice. - Derek Robinson, 'Piece of Cake.'
Anybody who doesn't have fear is an idiot. It's just that you must make the fear work for you. Hell when somebody shot at me, it made me madder than hell, and all I wanted to do was shoot back. - Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF.
The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down. - General Chuck Yeager, USAF, describing his first confrontation with a Me262.
The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself. - Lt. Colonel W. A. 'Billy' Bishop, RAF.
Men were going to die in the air as they had for centuries on the ground and on the seas, by killing each other. The conquest of the air was truly accomplished. - René Chambe, 'Au Temps des Carabines.'