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.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.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
It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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When we were in Pearl, in order to get out of the sun, we always had awnings over the back end of the ship, the stern of the ship.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
Barney Ross
I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
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