25 Quotes by Barney Ross

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.

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.

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

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

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

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.

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.

The planes alone would have taken care of us, so I was grateful that we never found them. We were out there searching for 36 hours.