Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers. — 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 Image
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 Image
Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships. — Barney Ross Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years. — Barney Ross Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves. — Barney Ross Copy Share Image
