The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

Always avoid picking up hitch-hikers who are wearing a mask.

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.