They Got Us Surrounded Again the Poor Bastards

BY LOGAN NYE — WEARETHEMIGHTY.COM

In the heat of battle, some people freeze up, some charge forward, and some driblet awesome lines like they're trying to win a rap battle.These quotes are from the third category.

1. "Two kinds of people are staying on this beach! The dead and those who are going to die! At present, let'south get the hell out of hither!"

Troops in an LCVP landing arts and crafts approach Omaha Beach on D-Twenty-four hour period, June six, 1944. (Photo: public domain) This was shouted past Army Col. George Taylor as he urged his men forward at Normandy on D-Twenty-four hour period. According to survivors, Taylor yelled a few different versions of this quote during the landings at Omaha Embankment and all of them had the desired event, spurring American soldiers forward against the Nazi guns firing on the beach.

2. "All right. They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of united states, they're behind us … They can't become away this time."

(Photograph: U.Southward. Marine Corps) Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller gave united states tons of bang-up quotes. This particular one he spit out while Chinese forces surrounded his men at the Chosin Reservoir. The Marines were expected to fight what substantially amounted to a doomed delaying activity as the Chinese wiped them out. Instead, the Marines broke out and slaughtered their way through multiple enemy divisions.

3. "Nuts!"

(Photograph: U.Southward. Regular army) Regular army Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe led the 101st Airborne Division during the Boxing of the Bulge. The Americans were outnumbered, surrounded, and running curt on supplies when a German delegation requested their surrender. McAuliffe was awoken with the news and sleepily responded "Nuts!" before heading to meet his staff who had to draft the formal response to the German language commander.

The staff decided that the general's initial response was better than anything they could write. While under siege and nigh constant attack, the paratroopers typed the following centered on a sheet of paper:

December 22, 1944 To the German language Commander, Northward U T S ! The American Commander

4. "Damn the torpedoes, Total speed ahead!"

Admiral David Farragut during the Civil State of war. (Photo: Public Domain) In April 1862, Vice Adm. David Farragut was leading a armada to capture Mobil Bay, Alabama, and cut off the major port. While sailing into the city, a Union ship hitting Confederate mines in the water that were and then known as torpedoes. Farragut yelled his now immortal line, sailed through the mines, and was victorious.

5. "Some other running gun battle today … Wahoo runnin', destroyer gunnin'"

The USS Wahoo claimed eight sinkings and a "clean sweep" afterward the ship'southward third patrol. (Photo: U.S. Navy) The USS Wahoo was an enormously successful U.S. submarine in World War II that sank five Japanese ships totaling 32,000 tons — including an unabridged 4-transport convoy — during its third prowl. Near the terminate of the patrol, the Wahoo tried to sink a second convoy but was surprised by a previously unspotted Japanese destroyer outfitted for anti-submarine operations.

The Wahoo was forced to run, evading a barrage from the destroyer's cannons and a depth charge set on. The commander signaled Pearl Harbor with the to a higher place message and escaped. The quote was slightly changed and ran as a headline in the Hawaiian Advertiser after the patrol.

6. "I may sink, but I'm damned if I'll strike."

John Paul Jones was vilified every bit a pirate in Britain, simply was a hero in America. (Photograph: Public Domain) Navy fable John Paul Jones helped create the sea service during the American Revolution and, in an epic battle with the HMS Serapis, gave at least a couple of epic quotes including this one when he was asked to surrender.

A more than famous quote from the battle was "I take not notwithstanding begun to fight!" only the Navy isn't certain that Jones actually said it since the words were first attributed to him 46 years after the battle.

7. "Praise the Lord and pass the armament!"

(Photo: U.Southward. Navy) During the assail on Pearl Harbor, a Navy chaplain was trying to keep the men of the USS New Orleans going. He saw a group of men tiring as they carried anti-aircraft ammunition to the guns and patted 1 of them on the back while speaking this phrase to motivate them. It was later incorporated into songs during the state of war.

eight. "They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards."

(Photo: U.Due south. Army Sgt. Bill Augustine) While Gen. George S. Patton gets most of the headlines for liberating the 101st during the Battle of the Bulge, another tank legend was leading the charge through German lines, Col. Creighton S. Abrams, who allegedly uttered the crawly words above.

Stephen Due east. Ambrose's famous book "Band of Brothers" attributes a similar quote, "They've got us surrounded — the poor bastards," to an unknown Army medic. As the story goes, the medic was telling an injured corporal why none of the wounded had been evacuated.

9. "Goddamn it, y'all'll never get the Imperial Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!"

(Photo: U.Southward. National Archives) A few different books attribute this quote to Marine Capt. Henry P. Jim Crowe. Crowe commanded a regimental weapons visitor during the country battle on Guadalcanal. A Japanese machine gun had pinned down a Marine advance and Crowe yelled these words to the men huddling in a beat out hole. As a grouping, they charged the guns behind Crowe and took out the enemy position.

10. "Don't burn until you see the whites of their eyes!"

(Painting: The Boxing of Bunker's Loma by E. Percy Morgan) Americans nearly often associate this line with the Battle of Bunker Hill, simply there'south testify it was said past different officers at a few points in history. At Bunker Hill in 1775, the order was given past at to the lowest degree one of the leaders of Patriot forces building new fortifications on Bunker and Breed's Hills near Cambridge, Massachusetts. The intent was to preserve the limited powder and shot.

The gambit worked, allowing the Patriots to inflict major damage with their initial volleys, but it wasn't enough for the outnumbered and outgunned Americans to concord the hills.

eleven. "Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you lot want to live forever?"

(Photo: U.S. Marine Corps)

The above line is commonly attributed to Marine Corps legend Sgt. Maj. Dan Daly, though at that place's some question on whether he said it and — if he did — if those were his exact words. Daly once told a Marine historian that he yelled "For Christ's sake, men — Come on! Do you want to live forever!"

The Marine who recounts hearing "Come on, y'all sons of bitches! Practice you lot want to alive forever?" was in some other role of the battlefield, so it's possible that two Marines yelled similar lines in different parts of Belleau Wood or that someone misremembered a line yelled in i of World War I's most dramatic battles.

Either way, the quote is pretty awesome.

 Logan Nye - Staff Writer at We Are The Mighty

Logan is a former Fort Bragg paratrooper who deployed with the 82nd Airborne Division's quaternary Brigade Gainsay Team.

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