We Got Orders To Strike The Marshall And Gilbert Islands. We Had A Task Force With The Enterprise. We Had Two Or Three Cruisers And Probably Eight Or 10 Destroyers. - SearchQuotes

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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

Barney Ross

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