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To write one's memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself.

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Neither Germany nor Italy have doubts. Our crisis is not a material crisis. We have lost faith in our destiny... We are like mariners without a pilot.

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By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
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Philippe Pétain

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Born: April 24, 1856
Died: July 23, 1951 (aged 95)
Bio: Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain, generally known as Philippe Pétain, Marshal Pétain, was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944.

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