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

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

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.

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.