Barney Ross Quotes

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

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. - Barney Ross

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. - Barney Ross

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. - 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 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

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