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.

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

Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.

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.