Oral History Interview with John Lowe, Jr., August 7, 1978 Page: 21
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Lowe:Was it a good day for an air attack?
Excellent! An excellent day (chuckle)! In fact, I don't
recall any bad days out there.
So anyway, my battle station on the Neosho was on a
bridge operating the annunciators. You know what an annun-
ciator is?
I must say I'm not familiar with those.
Well, the annunciator is like a big deal that has a crank on
this side and a crank on this side, and the captain says, "Full
head astern" or "Forward," or that sort of thing.
I know precisely what you are referring to now.
Anyway, that was my station. I was to stand there, and when
the captain said to do this or do that, that was what I was
supposed to do.
So when the Jap planes started coming over--which we
didn't know they were Japs at the time--and started circling,
I was just looking at them as we had the day before with the
target practice with the sock. I just figured it was some
more of our planes until they started coming in kind of low,
and then you could see . . . when the planes came in, you
could see the red meatball signs on their wings when they
peeled off. And I recall somebody hollering, "Japs!" They
started sounding general quarters, and I'm still standing there
kind of transfixed, and I noticed these torpedo planes that
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Lowe, John, Jr. Oral History Interview with John Lowe, Jr., August 7, 1978, text, August 7, 1978; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1529186/m1/23/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.