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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.
Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.
It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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.
Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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.
We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the 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.
