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.

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.

Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

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

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.