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 rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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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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I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
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All destroyers at that time had about 200 men. A destroyer was rough riding, and with the rough weather, the sea can be an enemy too.
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They neglected to get our oil supplies and our submarines. The battleships they did get were beginning to become obsolete anyway.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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