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.
Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.