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.
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.
The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.