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about the Pearl Habor attack.
On most of the 10,000 applications for association membership, survivors have written accounts of where they were and what they were doing between 0755 hours and 0945 hours on December 7, 1941. Jesse Pond’s story of how a beautiful morning in the tropics exploded into hell is typical.
When Roosevelt declared a national emergency in 1940, calling Naval Reserves up for duty, Jesse Pond was a new reserve member. He was assigned to the U.S.S. Chew, an over-aged destroyer on neutrality patrol, based in Pearl Harbor. “We ran around and made sure there were no submarines in the area,” Pond explained. “We were part of a division of destroyers assigned to that job.” ' The Chew was old. “She was launched in 1917—So was I," Pond joked. Initially, the destroyer was part of a package deal with the British under the U.S. traded ships for lend-lease agreements. “But the British wouldn’t take her. They said she was too beat up,” Pond chuckled.
The destroyer's identification number was 106.
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