[Annotator's Note: David Cawley is very difficult to understand and follow throughout this clip. Cawley joined the Navy on 1 August 1941.] The Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)] was the second line for Cawley. [Annotator's Note: Cawley boarded the Enterprise in August 1942.] Suddenly he was called to a freight ship and the Army shipped them out. He spent three days working. He then went to Arizona. He later got aboard a ship. [Annotator's Note: Cawley gets frustrated with himself, so the interviewer asks a new question.] He was with a small crew. They formed as a group in Arizona. They were carted in a ship that was painted dark black. They got on the ship in the middle of the night. It was a gun ship. They got out of San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] and went to Hawaii. There they went to another ship to do some training. They did not have the equipment or experience needed. They went aboard the carrier. [Annotator's Note: A person answers a phone in the background at 09:13.000.] Cawley liked it very well. The men were good and encouraging. They were launched in Hawaii. It was sad how many people in the Navy were left and how many ships were left [Annotator's Note: after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941]. There was not hardly anything. The people left were not skilled. So many were sunk. The only ship left was the Enterprise. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] left in the night. Cawley and his ship departed the area.

[Annotator's Note: David Cawley, a gunner with Bombing Squadron 10 (VB-10) flying from the USS Enterprise (CV-6), is very difficult to understand and follow throughout this clip. The interviewer asks Cawley if he can talk about the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 25 to 27 October 1942, in the Solomon Islands.] They were told to land on the land about 50 miles away to get away from the area. They did not have a field, it was just dirt. His pilot [Annotator's Note: then US Navy Lieutenant, later Rear Admiral, James D. "Jig Dog" Ramage] was a lieutenant junior grade and Cawley was a 3rd Class [Annotator's Note: Cawley does not identify his rating]. They flew there. They landed and were told to behave themselves. They thought they would be there two weeks to a month. An Army guy said he saw a Jap [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] coming across the water. The skipper of his squadron said to get them out of there. They got ready to go. Their ship had 45 people killed. They took them out to sea. They found their ship and got aboard. It was a terrible thing. They went south away from the Japanese. They got out to sea with eight or nine ships. They were the only carrier. They went to sinking ships and the others took off and left them. They buried the 45 men then from the bow of the ship. They never went back. They went north and did everything for flying. Flying meant four different types of carriers' systems and there was only one left. [Annotator's Note: unintelligible. [Annotator's Note: Cawley is extremely difficult to understand and follow from 0:23:20.000 to 26:48.000.]

[Annotator's Note: David Cawley, a gunner with Bombing Squadron 10 (VB-10) aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6), is very difficult to understand and follow throughout this clip.] Sailors would come aboard ship and get food and something to drink. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Cawley to talk about US Navy Lieutenant, later Rear Admiral, James D. "Jig Dog" Ramage.] He was good. He would go into a force full of planes. [Annotator's Note: Cawley indicates that he does not know if he has said anything that means anything.] Ramage was a lieutenant. He would talk to the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] or anybody that needed it. He was good at it. They became a good pair. [Annotator's Note: Cawley is extremely difficult to understand and follow from 0:31:30.000 to 0:33:48.000.] The first time Cawley got to where he could not talk, he was in a facility. He does not know why it went bad on him. He had a deep cell in his head, and it punctured his head two and a half to three inches deep and three inches wide. It got worse and worse. It has taken him seven or eight years to get back to where he is now. He worked 46 years for the telephone company [Annotator's Note: after the war]. He started out at the bottom. He also did some farming. He worked six or seven years [Annotator's Note: unintelligible] in a row. At the end of that he was sent to school. He did that for years. He ended up with a lot of family.