Business Quote by Barney Ross

Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they…

— Barney Ross

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian…

— Jack Adams

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was…

— Jack Adams

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect…

— Jack Adams

My father was executive officer, which is second-in-command, on a ship called the Hull, one of three ordered into a typhoon by Admiral Halsey…

— Greil Marcus

Destroyers were the first to herald our entrance into the war.

— Josephus Daniels

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

— Barney Ross

We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't.…

— Barney Ross

We had 600 ships, a 600 ship Navy under [Ronald] Reagan. We're down to 200 now [in 2016].

— Rush Limbaugh

We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

— Gavin MacLeod

On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at…

— Ray Mabus

Pilot to crew. Take a good look at Pearl Harbor. Maybe it's something you'll want to remember.

— Dudley Nichols