Barney Ross Quotes

• 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.

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• Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

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• I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.

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• Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.

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• I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

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• I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• It was lucky for me. It wasn’t lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• We were very fortunate that the carriers weren’t in the harbor.

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Barney Ross (14)

Birth:	23rd December, 1909
Death:	17th January, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Athlete

About

Dov-Ber Rosofsky was born in New York City to Isidore "Itchik" Rosofsky and Sarah Epstein Rosofsky. His father was a Talmudic scholar who had emigrated to America from his native Brest-Litovsk after barely surviving a pogrom. The family then moved from New York to Chicago. Ross became a world champion in three weight divisions and was a decorated veteran of World War II.

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