Jack Adams Quotations

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

I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

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

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

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.

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.

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

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

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

Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.