After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into tokyo bay with the rest of the fleet — Barney Ross
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. — Barney Ross
I was 20 years old at pearl harbor. I was in the navy about a year and four months before the war. — Barney Ross
It was lucky for me. It wasn’t lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured. — Barney Ross
I’d get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. — Barney Ross
Our duty was to try and find the japanese fleet. We never did find the japanese fleet and — Barney Ross
Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something. — Barney Ross
They got word that the japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the japanese wouldn’t get it. — Barney Ross
We got orders to strike the marshall and gilbert islands. We had a task force with the enterprise. — 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. — Barney Ross