Charges Quote by Barney Ross

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

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

— Barney Ross

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

— Barney Ross

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

I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.

— Barney Ross

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

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

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

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

— Barney Ross

We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.

— Barney Ross

Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.

— Barney Ross

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