All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
“After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.”
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