“CINCUS to Vandegrift for his flyers- Many happy returns Sunday and congratulations- Keep knocking them off.”

—  Ernest King

Dispatch from King to then-Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, commander of the 1st Marine Division, during the Battle of Guadalcanal in late August 1942. As quoted in Once A Marine: The Memoirs of General A.A. Vandegrift, U.S.M.C. (1964), p. 146
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