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

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.

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

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.

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.

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