Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989 Page: 16
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Marcello:cable tied to it, and it'd swing free. Then the Dobbin
had a big boom on it, and we'd hoist it up on deck.
They had heating torches to straighten that stuff up
with. We'd put it back on the same way--lower it back
down, tie a cable on the other side, pull it back under
there. Us divers would go down and get it lined up on
the shaft. We'd put about a quarter of a stick of
dynamite on it and jam it back up on there. It was a
tapered shaft. So that was one of the things.
Then another thing was that after Pearl Harbor,
well, we always inspected the ship. The Dobbin set in
port somewhere. It didn't go out everyday maneuvering
around. It set in port for months and months. We was
in New Guinea one time for nine months swinging around.
We never even once moved. We had to go down about every
month and inspect the bottom of the ship. We'd crawl
all along the bottom of it and inspect it to see if
somebody had swam out and attached a bomb to it or
a. .what do you call it?
A mine or something?
Yes, mine! Yes, attach a mine, underwater mine, orsomething to it.
The whole time that the Dobbin was around the Hawaiian
Islands, was it essentially there at Pearl?
Yes, that was our home port.
In other words, it didn't go out very much from Pearl,16
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Turner, Joseph C. Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989, book, September 19, 1989; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2137897/m1/18/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.