World war ii. Up next, we will hear from survivors stationed at honolulu in 1941. The National Park service conducted an oral history. This is about an hour. Were in a hurricane for 9 days coming over from san diego. You have a rather green crew, when we got into honolulu and some of us got liberty. We took a taxi into the army slash navy y. I walked across the street, i ordered a soda and the lady said, youre from the u. S. S. Ward. And i said how do you know . She said youre all that delicate shade of green. The u. S. S. Ward was the guardianship, part of division 80 which consisted of four old destroyers, the ward, the sly, the alan and the chew. We rotated duty guarding the Entrance Channel to pearl harbor. The regulations were that on all the charts of the world was an indication that no submarine must approach pearl harbor within 100 miles without coming to the surface and requesting a destroyer escort on the surface to approach any closer to honolulu or pearl harbor. We had ofte
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