Working Around the Clock
The workers hammered and sawed away, around the clock, for the following three days and nights. The crew got their hands dirty too, of course, as the Captain said they needed to do. Daves’ job was hauling supplies. “I bet I carried a hundred crates full of pineapples and oranges down to the galley,” he recalled.
Surrounded by F6F Hellcat fighters, seamen prepare bombs on hangar deck of USS Yorktown. Photo By Everett Collection/Shutterstock
Daves also remember just how heavy those boxes were. He supposed that they were full of canned goods. Apparently, the Navy bought a lot of pork and beans. It was during one of his trips between the trucks and the ship that Daves noticed the other two carriers that were sitting on the far side of Ford Island. He never really got a close look at them, though.