"Lexington did launch its air group when a……" — Jack Adams
"Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported."
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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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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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After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
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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 Air Quotes
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
— Alexis Arguello
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
— Lester Bangs
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
— Drew Barrymore
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
— Drew Barrymore
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
— Jack Benny
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