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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“Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.”
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