“I know I am going to die, but before I die I want to tell you: the Japanese are landing at Aola.”

Spoken after Vouza escaped Japanese torture and crawled through the jungle to warn US Marines of an imminent attack during the 1942 Guadalcanal campaign, refusing to let his wounds stop him from delivering the warning.

— Sir Jacob Vouza, Solomon Islands

Source: Walter Lord, Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons (Viking Press, 1977); widely documented in accounts of the 1942 Guadalcanal campaign