I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years. — Barney Ross Copy Share Image
We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers… — Barney Ross Copy Share
I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war. — Barney Ross Copy Share
Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships. — Barney Ross Copy Share
We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't.… — Barney Ross Copy Share
Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they… — Barney Ross Copy Share
They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want… — Barney Ross Copy Share
The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in… — Barney Ross Copy Share
After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and… — Barney Ross Copy Share
All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves. — Barney Ross Copy Share
I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a… — Barney Ross Copy Share
It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured. — Barney Ross Copy Share
I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up. — Barney Ross Copy Share
