I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

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.

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

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.