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" 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. "
Rest
Missouri
War
" All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves. "
Morning
Three
Ship
" Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small. "
Small
Did
Too
" Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships. "
Fires
Black
Harbor
" 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. "
Think
Nothing
Bag
" I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years. "
Years
Seen
Family
" It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured. "
Got
Lucky
Me
" I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war. "
Before
Years
Year
" I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up. "
Blue
Standing
Up
" 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. "
Duty
Try
I Am
" 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. "
Someone
Started
Everything
" 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. "
Her
Got
Coming
" 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. "
Task
Three
Two
" 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. "
Know
Day
Exit
" We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor. "
Fortunate
Harbor
Very
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