Top 20 Quotes by Jack Adams

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.

Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

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

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.

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

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.

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

Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.