Company Commander Quotes

“Inside the building the Colonel and the battalion staff were eating breakfast. The sight startled me at first and I said a bad word to myself. The pursuit of the war could not wait long enough for the rifle companies to eat, but there was time for battalion headquarters to breakfast in the luxury of a house that the sweat of the rifle companies had taken. I passed it off as another of the injustices”
― Charles B. MacDonald, Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of WWII

“Company G today committed a war crime. They are going to win the war, however, so I don’t suppose it really matters.”
― Charles B. MacDonald, Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of WWII

“Sergeant Jack Webster, an Oklahoman whose adventure in running across an enemy minefield in France at such a speed that the mines exploded harmlessly to his rear was a story told to every replacement upon arrival in the company.”
― Charles B. MacDonald, Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of WWII

“Mighty Endeavor: American Armed Forces in the European Theater”
― Charles B. MacDonald, Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of WWII

“Night with its long hours of mysteries and uncertainties was the time to fear.”
― Charles B. MacDonald, Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of WWII

“When darkness came Sergeant”
― Charles B. MacDonald, Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of WWII