I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job..

Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns ….

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle..

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being ….

But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life,….

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to….

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us….

Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while..

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience..

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit..

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone..

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth..

[I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the mov….

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ….

The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. ….

Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being….

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon….

I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great..

About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee bu….

I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live wit….

I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the wi….