- Harbor
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Coming
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- Nov 07, 2020
They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lucky
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
- About A Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020