All We Had Aboard The Ship That

All We Had Aboard The Ship That Morning Was One Annapolis Graduate And Three Reserves.

I Was 20 Years Old At Pearl Harbor. I Was In The Navy About A Year And Four Months Before The War.

I Was Standing On The Deck Of The Uss Blue, A Destroyer. We Were All Alone Out There At This Buoy, Tied Up.

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.

Everything Was Black In The Harbor, But There Were Still Some Fires Burning On The Ships.