William Frederick Halsey, Jr. Quote

Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell.


Remark in December 1941, after the attack of Pearl Harbor, as quoted in Roger Parkinson, Attack on Pearl Harbour (1973), p. 117; James Bradley, Flyboys (2004), p. 138.


Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell.

Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell.

Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell.

Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell.