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Jack Adams

"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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"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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"The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before."

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"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."

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"During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village."

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"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

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"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."

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"Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities."

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"Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."

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"The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem."

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"And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership."

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"The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell."

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"I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941."
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"You could tell that America was gearing up for war."
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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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"A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class."
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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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"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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"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 the same food the admiral ate."
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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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"In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies."
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