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.
“If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job.”
“I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.”