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.
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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.