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“What else could I do? You engage, you fight, you win. That is the reputation of our Navy, then and in the future.”

Source: As quoted in 1944, "Namesake USS Bulkeley (DDG 84) https://www.surflant.usff.navy.mil/Organization/Operational-Forces/Destroyers/USS-Bulkeley-DDG-84/About-Us/Namesake/

“When you run into the enemy, you’ve got to attack, no question about it.”

John D. Bulkeley

Source: "‘Sea Wolf’ Bulkeley’s European Theater Exploits Heroic" in Naval History" https://www.navalhistory.org/2015/03/19/sea-wolf-bulkeleys-european-theater-exploits-heroic (1944)

“As far as the Breakout is that...Breakout, itself is concerned, it was dark, and it was a rather rainy, misty night. We went at high speed, ran through the mine fields, which we knew like the palm of our hands...no problem at all.”

John D. Bulkeley

Recalling his experiences in evacuating General Douglas MacArthur from Corregidor during the 1941 Japanese invasion of the Philippines <br class="br">Source: "Better have the books corrected." https://corregidor.org/chs_mac/bulkeley.htm (1987)

“I don't know what a hero is. This business of the captain taking all the credit, ordering someone else and so forth -- that's not it. The men who do the actual fighting, man the guns, they're the guys that really win the war.”

John D. Bulkeley

Source: "Vice Adm. John D. Bulkeley, 84, Hero of D-Day and Philippines" in The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/08/us/vice-adm-john-d-bulkeley-84-hero-of-d-day-and-philippines.html (8 April 1996)