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On board all vessels at sea and in port, and at our many island bases in the Pacific, there is rejoicing and thanksgiving. The long and bitter struggle, which Japan started so treacherously on the 7th of December 1941, is at an end.

— Chester W. Nimitz

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God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

Appended to a variant of the Serenity Prayer in The Armed Forces Prayer Book (1951)

Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.

Pearl Harbor has now been partially avenged.

A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep her in paint and powder.

It is to the everlasting honor and glory of our submarine personnel that they never failed us in our days of peril.

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