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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH rr THEY WERE W.N.UUTUftJ WHITE THE 5T01T SO FA: Tat story tar tht Fmttip-piae- s put la Ik kaMtte tnmt tt tta U kelaf told by ameers wk ara all thai Is left ol Motor Torpeda Boat Sqaadroa J. They are Lit at. ions Bnlkeley (m Lieutenant Commander), sqaadroa commaadcr; Lieut, at. B. Kelly, second ia com maud; and Ensigns Aaiswiqr Alters aa4 George E. Csx Jr. Manila fcai laJlen, and ws have lost our naval base at Cavite. Lieot-Kell-y kat told bo ha (peat New Year's Eva la tna kospital oa Corregidor, wbila Lieot. Bulkeley i diseassing wilk the Admiral a plan of escape to China. Lieut. Bulkeley Is telling about a Blent raid ef the PT koaU made against the iaps. Lie at. Bulkeley rode la the M hoat. ffceir unl -- te CHAPTER VI "So we separated, expecting to meet at dawn. It was the last I ever saw of the 31 boat. But here's what happened to our 34 boat in Subic. First, remember it was darker than hell, and the shore line was loaded with Jap fieid guns. None of us had ventured in there since the Japs took over. We had got in just a little way when a Jap searchlight spotted us and blinked out a challenge, asking who we were. Since we didn't know the Jap code reply, naturally we didn't answer, but changed course, veering away. But the Japs were getting suspicious by now, and from over by Ilinin Point a single field piece opened up. None of it fell near us maybe they were shooting at DeLong in the 31 boat. "When we were about abeam of Sueste light another light came on to challenge us this time from a ship maybe that cruiser. We changed course to go over and have a look, but she was small fry not worth a torpedo the hell with her we were headed for Binanga and the cruiser. "By one o'clock we were off the north entrance to Port Binanga, where we were to meet DeLong in the 31 boat and go in together for the attack, and when he didn't show up, I began to be afraid something might have happened, yet I couldn't be sure. "But there was nothing to do but go on in alone. To make the sneak, we cut the speed down to eight Knots, skirted Chiquita Island, rounded Binanga Point, and entered the little bay on two engines at idling speed. Everything was quiet, no firing down here, and then we saw her ahead in the dark not five hundred yards away. Creeping up on her, we had Just readied two torpedoes when a searchlight came on and in code she asked who we were. "We answered, all right with two torpedoes but they had hardly been fired when I gave our boat hard rudder and started away. It isn't safe for an MTB to stay near a cruiser. One torpedo hit home with a hell of a thud we heard it over our shoulders. Looking back, we saw the red fire rising, and presently two more explosions which might have been her magazines. "But we had no time for staring, for we were into plenty trouble. One of those torpedoes had failed to clear its tube and was stuck there, just at the entrance, and was making what we call a 'hot run,' its propellers buzzing like hell, compressed air hissing so you couldn't heai yourself think. But worst of all, a torpedo is adjusted so that it won't fire until its propeller has made a certain number of revolutions I shouldn't give it exactly, but let's say it is three hundred. After that, the torpedo is cocked like a rifle, d blow on its nose and an would set it off blowing us all to dot-das- h dot-das- After we parted company at the entrance to Subic Bay, he started around its northern rim as we'd planned. But just before midnight he developed engine trouble the saboteur's wax had clogged his strainers. He cleaned them and had just got under way when more trou ble developed the cooling system went haywire. They stopped, and were drifting as they repaired it when there was an ominous grinding sound under the boat they were aground on a reef in Subic Bay. "They rocked the boat, and final ly started the engines to get themselves unstuck. But the noise now attracted the Japs, and a gun on Ilinin Point opened up on them splashes coming nearer and nearer. They worked frantically, finally burned out all reverse gears so that the engines were useless. DeLong gave orders to abandon ship. They wrapped mattresses in a tarpaulin to make a raft, and all got aboard but DeLong, who stayed to chop holes in the gas tanks and blow a hole in the boat's bottom with a hand grenade before he jumped. That was the end of the 31. Then he couldn't find the raft in the darkness, and being afraid to call out, swam to the beach. "The raft had shoved off with all twelve aboard at three o'clock. "He waited on the sands until dawn. Then, in the gray he picked up the tracks of nine men. He followed tnese until mey half-ligh- t, ... y rv 2 i .r.. h eight-poun- glory. "So what to do? Somehow that torpedo propeller had to be stopped and stopped quick, or else a good hard- - wave slap on the torpedo's nose would blow us all to splinters. And at this point our torpedoman, Martino, used his head fast. He ran to the head and swiped a handful of toilet paper. He jumped astride that wobbling, hissing torpedo like it was a horse, and, with the toilet paper, Jammed the vanes of the propeller, stopping it. "We'd stopped for all thi3, but we couldn't afford to wait long. The cruiser's fire was lighting up the bay behind us. Ahead, all over Subic, hell was breaking loose. So we started up, gave her everything we had to get through that fire. "With three motors roaring, and us skipping around in that rough water with everything I guess we made considerable commotion. Anyway the Japanese radio in Tokyo, reporting the attack next day, said the Americans had a new secret weapon a monster that roared, flapped its wings, and fired torpedoes in all directions. It was only us, of course, but we felt flattered. We got the hell out of there, and that was all there was to it." "Well," said Kelly, "MacArthur wouldn't quite agree. He gave you the D.S.C. for what you'd done." "But DeLong has the real story," insisted Bulkeley. "I pulled up outside the mine field off Corregidor to wait for him. Neither of us could go in until it got light, because otherwise the army on shore, hearing us in the dark out there, would think it was Japs and set off the mine field. But when the sky got light and I saw my boat was alone, I realized DeLong was in trouble. And since he's now a prisoner of the Japanese if he s alive we'd better tell his story for him. wide-ope- n, " 'Hey, Joe got a cigarette and a match?' they called out. And an hour later they were telling their story to Captain Cockburn, in the d American Infantry's field headquarters tent. The nine were back with us at Sisiman Cove the next evening." Ninety-secon- "That afternoon Bulkeley came over to tell me the story of the engagement. When he was through, 'Kelly,' he said, 'we need you " 'Let's get ahold of that doctor I said, 'and you tell him that This time it worked. The hole in my finger was still almost three inches long and about an inch wide, with some of the tendon exposed (but in a month it was healed, except that I can't move my finger joints). I had to promise them faithfully I would show up every other day for treatment, but the point of it was I got out of that place. "Two days later I took the 34 boat out on my first patrol from Corregidor up along Bataan toward Subic Bay Bulkeley, 'who as squadron commander rode all boats on patrol, of course was with me. It was a calm night and chilly. Sweaters were comfortable over our khakis, although in the daytime we wore only shorts or trunks. "Everything was going well, in fact it was monotonous. But when we were about twenty-fiv- e miles up the coast, hell suddenly started popping. Our own batteries were shooting at us. Bulkeley explained to me that was the main excitement these days to keep from being sunk by your own side and calmly altered course to get out of their range, which we could tell by the light of their tracer bullets. " 'Half the time those dumb dastards don't know friend from foe,' he explained. "Five minutes later we saw a dim light, low in the water, and headed toward it. Was it a Jap landing barge, trying to get ashore behind General Wainwright's lines? Then it occurred to us that it might be Ensign Plant and the two other men of DeLong's boat who had disappeared in Subic Bay. They might have stolen a boat and now be headed home we couldn't take chances. So without firing' we drew nearer, watching the light. "Presently it began to blink dots and dashes, all right, but no message that we could read. Bulkeley ordered general quarters as a precaution, and the men were crouching behind their machine guns. It was about twenty-fiv- e yards away d now a boat, low in the water and suddenly its light went out. "Bulkeley stood up with the megaphone. 'Boat ahoy I' he called. He got a quick answer. They opened on him with machine guns. It looked like a fire hose of tracer bullets headed for our cockpit, and now they speeded up, trying to head for shore. But we were pouring the fire back at them. queer-shape- "Now we could see "We answered, all right with two torpedoes." led into a clump of bushes, where he found most of his crew. They explained they had stayed with the raft until dawn was about to break. Fearing sunrise would expose them to the Japanese, they had decided to risk a swim to the beach, where they could hide. But Ensign Plant and two men, who couldn't swim very well, decided to stay. What became of them the nine didn't know, and no one knows for sure to this day. "But the first thing DeLong did was to post lookouts, and all day they stayed in that clump, with an eye on the Jap observation planes which flew over them in relays, watching a hot little skirmish between the Americans and the Japanese on the far shore of the bay. At one point the Japs were falling back, and there seemed to be a chance that they could make a run for it in daylight, rejoining the American lines. But never was it quite possible, and in the meantime they had spotted a couple of bancas, native boats, farther down the beach. "Two men who were sent out to investigate, crawling on their bellies through the grass, returned to report the bancas were in fair condition. So when the sun had set they crawled to them and started getting them in shape. For rowing they had two paddles, a couple of spades, and a board. They .had to work fast and quietly, for the Japs were all around them just us they were launching the bancas they heard Japanese voices not two hundred yards away. "But a heavy wind came up, and at nine o'clock at night, both boats capsized. They righted them, but the shovels and the board were lost, and they now had only one paddle for each banca. Yet with these they continued to fight the head wind until three in the morning, when they were so exhausted that they decided to try the shore. So DeLong landed on what he hoped was Napo Point. They picked their way through the barbed-wir- e entanglement on the beach, and then found themselves up against a steep cliff. "They kept very quiet until dawn, not knowing whether daylight would find them surrounded by Americans or Japanese. But when it became light, the first thing they saw was a Flilipino sentry. it was a Jap landing barge, packed with men. It had rmor on the bow and the stern, and kept twisting and turning, trying to keep those thick steel plates pointed toward us. Of course our maneuver was to come in from the side, and let them have it where they couldn't take it. "All this had been going on for about thirty seconds when I heard a cry of pain from behind. It was Ensign Chandler. 'I've been hit he said. A Jap bullet had gone through both of his ankles. We pulled him out of the cockpit and laid him down on the canopy, meanwhile circling the Japs and pouring the steel down into their vulnerable sides. We could soon see we were getting them. The barge sank lower and lower in the water and presently gurgled under, while we pulled off to lick our own wounds, give first aid to Chandler, and locate any other boats in the vicinity. Surely the Japs wouldn't attempt a landing with a single barge. All we got, though, was more fire from our own shore guns a swarm of tracers and then began whistling over one of them landing two hundred yards away. But we didn't mind. The army seemed to enjoy it, and it wasn't hurting us. "We fooled around until almost dawn and were headed for home we couldn't have got Chandler through the mine fields to the hospital until sunrise anyway, when Bulkeley happened to glance back. he could "Through the see, bobbing in the swell, another g flat craft. Should we go back? You're damned right we should,- the men said--tget even for Chandler by sinking some more. "As we got closer, sure enough, it was another landing boat, this time apparently leaving the coast of Bataan, and we opened up on her with everything we had from four hundred yards away. "But their return fire was curiously light and spasmodic. So we closed to about ten yards. Their fire had. stopped, but their boat wouldn't. 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