Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.

I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.

We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.