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
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 the Japanese to get it intact. — 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
