Quotes about Barney Ross

I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was...

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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all...

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I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a...

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

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

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Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.

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

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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay...

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

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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't...

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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force...

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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves...

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