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

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

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

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.

Do you really know what my Fire Safety trainer told me when it comes to fire issues in the US? He whispered to me 'In this country, common sense is not common'.

Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.