For a moment I thought this was a reference to how Enterprise and Hornet crews utterly trashed the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, rockstar style, immediately after Midway.
For a moment I thought this was a reference to how Enterprise and Hornet crews utterly trashed the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, rockstar style, immediately after Midway.
"The immediate possibility of death combined with the joy of their recent escape from it served to release them from accepted standards of behavior. Defiantly they plunged into whatever pleasures were available. They took rooms at the Navy-managed rest hotels, the Moana and the Royal Hawaiian, supplemented their liquor rations ingeniously and unscrupulously, and pooled them in bathtubs full of ice where they became available to all."
From page 121 of the book "The Big E". It goes on to describe a knock-down drag-out fistfight E's airmen had with lying B-17 pilots in the Royal Hawaiian dining area.
"The immediate possibility of death combined with the joy of their recent escape from it served to release them from accepted standards of behavior. Defiantly they plunged into whatever pleasures were available. They took rooms at the Navy-managed rest hotels, the Moana and the Royal Hawaiian, supplemented their liquor rations ingeniously and unscrupulously, and pooled them in bathtubs full of ice where they became available to all."
From page 121 of the book "The Big E". It goes on to describe a knock-down drag-out fistfight E's airmen had with lying B-17 pilots in the Royal Hawaiian dining area.
It'd be awesome if they all starting shouting "USA, USA, USA!".
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