My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started.Tom Stoppard
As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India.Tom Stoppard
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.Dwight D. Eisenhower