Barney Ross
Barney Ross
Barney Rosswas an American professional boxer. Ross became a world champion in three weight divisions and was a decorated veteran of World War II...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBoxer
Date of Birth23 December 1909
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
gun thinking shells
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.
war bombs tokyo
After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
american-athlete battle
I did not really know what to do. The searchlight was my battle station, but there was no need to be on a searchlight at 7:55 in the morning.
war years navy
I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
break-up might locks
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.
morning ships three
All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
fire-burning black ships
Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
blue buoys standing-alone
I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
american-athlete dropping harbor struck
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.
american-athlete attacked fleet japanese six
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.
american-athlete
Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.
american-athlete people
It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
american-athlete order stern
When we were in Pearl, in order to get out of the sun, we always had awnings over the back end of the ship, the stern of the ship.
american-athlete arizona burning came fires pearl pitch ships
When we came back into Pearl it was pitch dark, and we could see the fires from the Arizona and the other ships still burning in the harbor.