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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.