Oral History Interview with Robert C. Hughes, August 5, 1978 Page: 33
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33headphones and let the phone man get a little rest, Then he
would get a little rest and turn the duty over to the gauge
man. It was very cooperative, but I wouldn't have known what
to have done with that .45, I don't suppose,
When you're down in that fire room, I am assuming that it is
very hard to hear outside noises and activity. Is that right?
Yes, You've got forced air. This ship had forced air in the
fire room, and you had interlocking doors, See, if you opened
both doors at once, you'd have a flare-back and catch the fire
room afire--too much draft and pressure, So that made a lot of
noise. The boiler itself, you know--the pressure there--made quite
a bit of noise. I mean, you had to talk a little louder than
normal in the fire room than you did on topside,
And all of this would have prevented you from hearing any of
the noise from the outside,
I think so. We could hear some bombing, and, of course, we could
always hear the guns. We could feel the ,. ,of course, they
didn't fire any of those 16-inch guns--the big guns, the broad-
sides. We could even hear our pom-poms, but we couldn't hear
the planes. We couldn't hear the planes as they were coming.
Actually, you really wouldn't have seen any of the planes at all,
No. They were gone. I didn't see any of them at all. Like I
say, I was in my compartment, which was below decks. Now, if I
had been topside, there is a possibility that I would have, butMarcello:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Hughes, Robert C. Oral History Interview with Robert C. Hughes, August 5, 1978, book, August 5, 1978; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc306943/m1/35/?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.