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Those who will not start, will never finish.
Jack Adams / Ice Hockey Player
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
Jack Adams / Ice Hockey Player
Chicago
Hairstyles
Heavy
Assigned
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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Type
Wells
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You could tell that America was gearing up for war.
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Gearing
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Always avoid picking up hitch-hikers who are wearing a mask.
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Hiker
Mask
Wearing A Mask
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The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
Jack Adams / Ice Hockey Player
Islands
May
Solomon
Japanese
Invaded
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
Jack Adams / Ice Hockey Player
Training
Basic
Japanese
Spies
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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Air
Carrier
Groups
Lexington
Japanese
Launch
Reported
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
Jack Adams / Ice Hockey Player
June
Navy
Parent
Permission
Received
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After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
Jack Adams / Ice Hockey Player
Battle
Fog
Midway
Pearls
Week
Camp
Rest
Harbor
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
Jack Adams / Ice Hockey Player
Newton
Staff
Tests
Typing
Member
Passed
Rear
Test
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
Jack Adams / Ice Hockey Player
Assignment
Communications
Typed
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A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
Jack Adams / Ice Hockey Player
Class
First Class
Firsts
Petty
Shorthand
Taught
Yeoman
Chief
Officer
Promoted
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What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Jack Adams / Ice Hockey Player
Baseball
Cups
Pitching
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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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Arizona
Chicago
Couple
Hundred
Saddened
Yards
Buoy
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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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Funny
Advice
Counseling
Humorous
Miracle
Pay
Use
Free
Either
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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 the same food the admiral ate.
Jack Adams / Ice Hockey Player
Home
Admiral
Letters
Nice
Stewards
Ate
Feed
Nice Thing
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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.
Jack Adams / Ice Hockey Player
Men
Believe
Equipment
Fighting
Naval
Men Believe Me
Account
Japanese
Led
Observations
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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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Enterprise
Good News
Islands
Morale
News
Yorktown
Attacked
Attacks
Effect
Gilbert
Marshall
Newly
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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.
Jack Adams / Ice Hockey Player
Islands
January
Sea
Tasks
Attack
Eve
Gilbert
Mission
Marshall
Task
Task Force
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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.
Jack Adams / Ice Hockey Player
Air
Facts
Made
Sinking
Attacks
Damaging
However
Japanese
Nearby
Several
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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.
Jack Adams / Ice Hockey Player
Carrier
Chicago
December
Force
Lexington
Midway
Miles
Western
Island
Harbor
Hawaiian
Led
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Task
Task Force
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
Jack Adams / Ice Hockey Player
Miles
Moving
Radio
Opposite
Began
Directions
Forces
Japanese
Passed
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