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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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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.
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
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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 miracle.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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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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