Sailors were always promised a life of adventure if they joined the United States Navy.  Far-off lands, monumental sea battles, fresh-air and sunshine were some of the ideas that stirred the imagination of youths about to embark upon a career in the Navy.  Stories would be traded telling of glory and duty.  Rogues and cut-throats populated the legends of the early U.S. Navy but never could a hero of the American Revolution, like John Paul Jones, have imagined a 20th century naval conflict of such magnitude like the Battle of Midway which would end up changing the course of the war in the Pacific during World War II.