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Barney Ross
American
Athlete
Born:
Dec 23
,
1909
Died:
Jan 17
,
1967
Get
Got
Had
Harbor
Three
Were
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
Barney Ross
Black
Everything
Some
Fires
Still
Were
Ships
Burning
Harbor
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
Three
Strike
Enterprise
Gilbert
Marshall
Had
Force
Islands
Got
Task
Task Force
Eight
Orders
Two
It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
Barney Ross
Me
People
Nine
Got
Were
Lucky
Injured
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.
Barney Ross
Gun
Nothing
Think
Would
About
Pounds
Take
Weighed
Put
Powder
Bag
Shell
Up
Get
Send
Then
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
Alone
Destroyer
Out
Tied
Were
Up
Buoy
Blue
Deck
Standing
I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
Barney Ross
War
Old
Year
Before
Months
About
About A Year
Years
Harbor
Navy
Four
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
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