Quotes About Navy

About all the Navy would admit to adopting from the Air Force was how to ground attack.

Pilots hated to stay on Guard and clutter up the air. The Navy called it Air Force common, the Air Force called it Navy common, and the Marines said they'd use any damn frequency they wanted, Guard included.

Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again.

In Japan, no one could dictate effectively to either army or navy. To an extraordinary degree, the two services—each with its own air force—pursued independent war policies, though the soldiers wielded much greater clout. The foremost characteristic of the army general staff, and especially of its dominant operations department, the First Bureau, was absolute indifference to the diplomatic or economic consequences of any military action. Mamoru

Trying to drown me woman?" 'You can't drown a SEAL,' she said. 'How embarrassing would that be?' 'God yes. Shoot me, hang me, let me die of infection from a hangnail, but don't let me die in the water. They'd send me to hell on principle.

James had eyes of summer-sky blue, ringed with deep navy. The contrast could be startling. The dark fringe of his lashes swept down as his eyes narrowed. He licked his lips.

The United States Navy, during the war, used Navajos as "code-talkers" who relayed messages from ship to ship, talking in Navajo (a language not studied in Japan).

The French were still heading south, towards Gibraltar. This came as a relief to Lord Nelson,

day that lives still, in the annals of the Royal Navy.

He was a legend throughout the navy.

So many were murdered that leave was cancelled and Frenchmen from the fleet were no longer allowed on shore.

The Royal Navy was waiting for them outside, but its ships were thinly spread and heavily outnumbered.

carronade fired straight through the windows of the Bucentaure's upper cabin,

BRITAIN'S MILITARY DEFENCES

Addressed to the entire British fleet,

do not say the French cannot come. I only say they cannot come by sea.' Admiral St Vincent

By midday on 19 October, only nine of his ships had managed to clear the harbour.

The first shots had been fired from the enemy line. The Battle of Trafalgar had begun.

contained in sealed orders that were not to be opened until they were at sea.

HMS Victory returned eventually to Portsmouth and is still there, still commissioned in the Royal Navy.

It was taken to Boulogne and delivered under flag of truce to a ship of the Royal Navy's blockade.

He had been in the navy since he was twelve and was Spain's most highly respected sailor.

To Midshipman Badcock, watching from two ships behind the Victory, the scene was one he would never forget.

Ganteaume had twenty-one fighting ships under his command, but trained crews for only seven.