Barney Ross Quotes

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• I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
• 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 there…
• All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
• Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
• I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
• After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the…
• We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and…
• 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…
• I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.
• Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.
• 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 shell…
• It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
• 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…
• 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. We…
• We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.

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