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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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.Barney Ross
I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.
Barney Ross
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 got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
Barney Ross
We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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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.
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