In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

Give me the Maori Battalion and I will conquer the world

The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!

Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?