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By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

— 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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