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

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.

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.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

I still like to play games that have a beginning, an end and a story.

What hap­pens to me if this slip­per fits?" "I turn you into a hand­some frog.

I've always been told I was extremely well-behaved as a kid.

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.