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"That should tell something about how old she was. In World War II, the numbers got up into the 800s,” he added.
Pond was on watch in the engine room on the morning of December 7. “I came off at 7:45. It was watch standard. courtesy to relieve 15 minutes early.” He went topside.
A Beautiful Day
“I was 23 years old. It was a beautiful day. I felt pretty good—I was a member of all the ship’s athletic teams so I was in pretty good shape. I was stretching and yawning,” enjoying the morning—didn’t even have a shirt on.
The mess cook came by and made some remark about ,hurrying if Pond wanted breakfast. The Chew’s standard topside exit was a slide in the torpedo shack, a favorite with the crew because the crash on hitting the bottom was more than loud enough to wake bunk mates grabbing a few extra minutes of sleep on Sunday morning. Just before hitting the slide. Pond caught a glimpse of an airplane diving down through the clouds.
“I thought it was one of our planes—just another one
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