Some quotes that I like YG, including some Japan but no Italy or Anzac. BTW I think many of the best quotes are Churchill’s so it is a shame you have excluded him.
“My Luftwaffe is invincible…And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?”
Hermann Goring - June 1940
"Before we’re through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell.!
Admiral Halsey - December 1941
“My attack on Singapore was a bluff, a bluff that worked… I was very frightened that all the time the British would discover our numerical weakness and lack of supplies and force me into disastrous street fighting”
General Yamashita - 1942
“Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week of D-Day. I’ll go ahead and win.”
Major General George Patton - November 1942 (Commenting of the North Africa Landings)
“Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. Just like I’d shoot a snake!”
General George S. Patton - (addressing to his troops before Operation Overlord) - 5th June 1944
“They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind!”
Arthur “Bomber” Harris
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, upon learning of the success of the attack on Pearl Harbor
“Nuts”
General MacAuliffe (when asked to surrender during the Battle of the Bulge, 1944)