Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, KT, GCB, OM, DSO & Two Bars (7 January 1883 – 12 June 1963) was a British officer of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. He was widely known by his initials, "ABC".
Quotes
[edit]- We are so outnumbered there’s only one thing to do. We must attack.
- Before attacking the Italian fleet at Taranto (11 November 1940); quoted in British Commanders (British Information Services, 1945)
- You cannot conduct military operations in modern warfare without airfields which will allow you to at least establish temporary air supremacy.
- To Dudley Pound (28 May 1941), BLAM 52567. Cdr J. Somerville to author, 4 March 1999. Quoted in Michael Simpson, A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader (London: Routledge, 2004) ch. 7
- Be pleased to inform their Lordships that the Italian Battle Fleet now lies at anchor under the guns of the fortress at Malta.
- Signal to the Admiralty in London (10 September 1943); quoted in Joseph Caruana, "Malta’s role in the surrender of the Italian battle fleet to the Allies in September 1943", The Times of Malta (19 January 2014) online (see Armistice of Cassibile)
External links
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Encyclopedic article on Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope on Wikipedia
