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

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

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.

I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

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.

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