Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989 Page: 38
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Marcello:
Turner:
Marcello:
Turner:Describe what was happening out on the water itself
during the attack.
Some of those ships that had sunk. the torpedoes or
bombs had hit oil tanks and busted a hole in them, and
they was leaking oil and fuel, aircraft fuel, all over
the water. Some of the motor launches, like the one
that was coming alongside of us that morning to pick us
up. .all the other ships had the same thing--motor
launches--out circling the ship and waiting to pick up
the men and take them on liberty Well, they all
started circling and were trying to pick up men that was
wounded or been blowed over the side. I seen a couple
of them who were brought alongside of us to come aboard,
and they was just covered with oil. I couldn't tell how
bad they were burned because they were covered with oil.
I don't even know if they were dead or unconscious or
what they were, but there was two or three of them
brought alongside of our ship that morning.
During this whole attack, I'm assuming, then, that you
were in essence a spectator.
That's right. True. I never had any action at all.The only time I got into action was the next day That
night we had two aircraft come in from the States that
had lost radio control, because radio silence went on,
and they knew by their navigation that they was over
Pearl Harbor; so they came in and made a pass, and when38
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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/m1/40/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.