Jack Adams Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.”

“Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.”

“I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.”