Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

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.

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

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.

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.

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

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.

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

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.

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

You can’t accept correction when you are not humble to listen.

Imagination is manifest of thoughts by divine force.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might.

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

The world's holy texts are built on ancient oral traditions.

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence