Harbor Patrol Pearl Harbor

摘要

In October 1941 I was a Signal-man Striker on board the USS Pennsylvania (BB 38), flagship of the U.S. Fleet (CINCUS) and the Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC) with Admiral Kimmel commanding. The Pennsylvania was one of the ships at Pearl Harbor ordered to provide a patrol boat, with crew, for night patrol of Pearl Harbor during November 1941. We used our motor launch No. 5 with a crew consisting of coxswain, motor machinist mate, signalman and armed guard.