captain banyan. i played "taps" for him the next night. it was in the warehouse where we stayed, you know, for the staff. and it was the most beautiful "taps" i ever played in my whole life. >> pennsylvania was flagship of the pacific fleet, and we were also, i believe at that time, flagship of the navy. it was admirable kimball's ship. he just didn't happen to be on it that day. when we were go out on patrol, quartersd have general , the saying used to be, you know, the japanese are attacking, the the japs are attacking, we would run to our battle station. most of us knew that eventually we were going to have to fight the japanese. where that trickled down from, i have no idea. i suppose from the politicians, the officers, the officers to us. but we expected to fight them eventually. we just didn't know when. there was no need for radio communication. it was obvious to all the ships in the harbor that we were under attack. so they had us carrying ammunition with the three age 50 on the handrail. i had just been handed a three-inch shell,