"After the Battle of Midway there was a……" — Jack Adams
"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."
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21 Quotes by Jack Adams
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands,…
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a…
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me…
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better…
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More Battle Quotes
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
— James A. Baldwin
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It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain…
— Gerry Adams
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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking…
— Drew Barrymore
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You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally…
— Scott Adams
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Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam,…
— Annie Besant
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness,…
— Buffalo Bill
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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world…
— Tony Blair
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a…
— Erma Bombeck
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