Quotes by William M. Thomas

I wanted to go to sea when I graduated from high school but my folks talked me out of it.

We took the ship out of Portland, Oregon, and had completed two round trips between Honolulu and the mainland. Then we went on the ill-starred voyage to New Caledonia. On the way over we had no action. Then we started on the return trip. We were only a short time out of Caledonia-it was on November 8, 1942, at about 19:50-when the torpedo struck.