All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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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 probably eight or 10 destroyers.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 shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
Barney Ross
They neglected to get our oil supplies and our submarines. The battleships they did get were beginning to become obsolete anyway.
Barney Ross
There were Japanese submarines out there, and we got credit for two of them and credited for knocking down four planes on our way out.
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The planes alone would have taken care of us, so I was grateful that we never found them. We were out there searching for 36 hours.
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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
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