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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH THEY WERE MDMDBL STORY SO FAR: The story of their part In the battle lor the Philip-pine- e li being told by lour ol the Bve naval offlceri who are aU that If left ol Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3. They are Lieut. John Bulkeley (now Lieutenant Commander), squadron commander; Lieut. R. B. Kelly, and Ensigns Anthony Akers and George E. Cox Jr. Lieut. Kelly, sent to the tunnel hospital on Corregidor, learned from the wounded there how badly the war was going lor us. Cavite, our big naval base, was gone and our air lorce nearly wiped4 out. While he was there the hospital was bombed. Ensign Akers Is telling some ol his experiences belore Manila felL CHAPTER V Twelve hours before the Japs entered the town I was sent back into Manila to pick up the remnants. I had just eighty gallons of gas to go those thirty miles finally got back with ten. A curious thing happened during those closing hours; nobody had given orders to blow up the oil reserves. Maybe some of them beit longed to private companies; would go against a business mans grain to blow up good oil. Finally a naval lieutenant no authority, but had no right to the oil was blazhear he got a Navy Cross for ing. 1 doing it. I was in Manila about that time, said Cox. A big air attack was going on, although it had already been declared an open city. For that reason I had gone in with the guns on my boat with their canvas covers on for welfare reasons. Yet,-- open city or not, the big air raid was on De-Lo-ng fw w (k. y (W (W V. The Questions 1. In what country did Achilles the Trojan war? In the navy what is a fight in 2. four-stripe- r? 3. What is the Land of the Midnight Sun? 4. What army branch has a castle for its emblem? 5. When a face is said to be florid what color is it? 6. How long is a fathom? 7. In what country do the Hottentots Uve? 8. A crane that lowers a life- boat is called what? 9. What is meant by a cartel ship? 10. 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It is a stupendous job which crosses a rivers and mountains. traverses 20,000-fohalf-doze- n ot mmm just as the Japs were entering the It was night, city, said Bulkeley. and we could see the town burning of smoke hanga huge death-pal- l ing above and oil six inches deep over the water. It looked like doom hanging over a great city, and it was. Made you feel bad. We stayed out there from nine oclock at night until about three in the morning, Didnt dare go ashore, and anyway our job was to destroy harbor shipping so what was left of it wouldnt fall into Jap hands. had to leave all my spare uniforms in my locker there, damn I hope none them, said Akers. of them fit. Watching them take over made you feel pretty sick, said Bulkeley. We finished up and started home, to get back before dawn, now and then looking back at the fires over the water. Every time it made us sore." .I Yet, open city or not, the big air raid was on. . shed be. Along in the evening after sunset I walked out to the mouth of the tunnel and sat down, to watch the twilight of the old year die away. It had been a tough year, but the one ahead looked worse. And here was I, useless for the war, in an hospital. From away off I army but that didnt matter, because her been wounded boy friend had just three days before, and she was worried sick aoout him. Just then I noticed someone sitside of me I ting down on the other it was Pegturned and, by George, Not in uniform, either. She gy was wearing that cute civilian dress. cotton-prin- t Didn t you I couldnt figure it. Wasnt asked. I like the party? . it any gcoJ? didn t I dirt know, she said. I go to the party. ( Werent you asked? she said. I was asked. Yec But it vms New Years, you see, and I thought it might be nice here. Not very many nice things hapbut this pen to vou during a war, ever hapwas about the nicest that other time. or pened to me then, so any good that It made me feel to the two of us, we managed She had get Charlotte cheered up. and to go back on duty presently,a couout us sneak she managed to bottles of Pabst ple of fairly cold cool-looki- fw ? Blackout, Maybe Diagnosis I have a pain in my abdomen, Father Helen, did that young man smoke in the parlor last said the recruit to the army docnight? I found burned matches tor. there. Young man, replied the medHelen Oh no, father; he just lit ico, "officers have abdomens, serone or two to see what time it was. geants have stomachs, you have bellyache. A deaf woman entered a church Soon after with an ear trumpet. Dont We All! she had seated herself, an usher The story goes that Hitler was One tiptoed over and whispered, inspecting troops when he asked a toot, and out you go. soldier, What would be your last wish if a Russian bomb fell near Build-UA One of these days youre goFeminine Patient Doctor, why you? ing to find an empty bunk, I said, does a small The soldier replied, I would cavity feel so large I was gloomy all that next week, that my beloved Fuehrer wish but Peggy said I was a fool. That to the tongue? could be at my side. tendthe natural Dentist Just there were plenty of well, fit men to do my job. And that if I hadnt ency of your tongue to exaggerate, been so damned stubborn in the I suppose. first place, and had got that hand Much Relieved treated in time, Id never have come Mrs. Murphy What do you hear to the hospital, and never met her, from your boy, Mike, in Australia ? and she would never have been able Mrs. Clancy Its bad news. He to break up my plan to get out, so writes that hes running around with a jeep! it was all my fault I Mrs. Murphy Dont worry, Mrs. Shes always had that cute way of seeming to storm at you and Clancy, thats what they call those army dress you down, so that you ended automobiles. Mrs. Clancy Praise the saints, 1 up by grinning and couldnt stay thought a jeep was a female Jap! mad at anything long. And YVho Isnt? So it went along for another Im always tired on Boy out for walks Lazy week, she leading me the first of April. every day to get some of those thirKellogg's Com Flakes Friend Why? ty pounds back, and then one day we aftare restored to whole be Who wouldnt Lazy Boy returned to find that Bulkeley had been by looking for me said he was er a March of 31 days? grain nutritive value of Thiamin (Vitamin Bi), going out on a raid that night, up to Subic Bay looking for a Jap Niacin and Iron, as recGems of Thought cruiser, that hed waited hoping to ommended by the U. S. take me, but finally had to leave. Official Nutrition Food It set me almost crazy. If I To make us love our country, Rules. hadnt been out on that damned our country ought to be lovely. health tour with a pretty girl, I Burke. wouldnt have missed the raidl So Trust no future, howeer pleasant! here I was while my gang was up Let the dead past bury its deadl there tangling with a cruiser, mayAct act in the living Present! be getting killed, because the Japs Heart within and Cod oerhead. LONGFELLOW. had Subic Bay so thick with guns that it was almost suicide to go in. Faith has to do with things AU that night there was no news. that are not seen, and hope with I was up at 5:30 Any dope from things that are not in hand. stiU nothing. the torpedo boats? Thomas Aquinas. But at seven they said, yes, BulkeNo man who is in the wrong ley had come back, managed to can stand up against the feller Kelloggs Com Flakes sink a cruiser and get away, but who is right and who keeps on fruit and milk or the other boat was missing probaBill McDonald cream. Capt. bly lost. of the Texas Rangers. No man was ever great withIt was a job we did for the out divine inspiration. Cicero. BulkeArmy, explained Lieutenant NOW historic attack the (describing ley of his P. T. Boat in Subic Bay menA cbuple of Jap ships, tioned.) one of them an Imperial Navy auxguns had iliary cruiser with been sheUing our emplacements on Bataan blasting them with heavy stuff. The major in charge had been wondering IRENE DAILEY, machinist how to get rid of them and had at the Arma Corp, helps phoned Admiral Rockwell, who gav make instruments for us permission to tackle the job. We control. knew they were based in Subic Bay, Subic in Port Binanga. probably is on the west coast of Luzon, just north of Bataan. I decided to send two boats the 31 boat, which was Lieutenant DeLongs, and the 34 boat, which was Kellys, now commanded by Ensign Chandler. I went along in it for the heU of it. We tested everything tuned the motors, greased torpedoes, and got under way at nine oclock, chugging .WHERE CIGARETTES ARE JUDGED north along the west coast of Bataan. It was very rough. We throtTaste and Throat is The tled down to thirty knots, and even the proving ground for cigarettes. Only then we were shipping water, but we your taste and throat can decide which cigarette tastes best to you . . . and bow it affects got off the entrance to Subic Bay your throat. Based on the experience of millions about half an hour after midnight. of smokers, we believe Camels will suit your to two the plan, Here, according to s T. Prove it for yourself! boats separated. DeLong in the 31 boat was to sweep one side of Subic Bay and I the other. We were to meet at Port Binanga, at the end. If something happened and we didnt meet there, then we were to rendezvous at dawn just outside the mine fields of Corregidor. wide-ope- us. could hear them playing the portable at the officers party, and I remembered how cute Peggy had looked in her civilian dress when she danced, and that didnt help any. Pretty soon one of the other nurses I knew, Charlotte, came out and sat down near me. She wasnt at the party because she had to go on duty soon, Jap-hel- four-motor- Americans needed without either money or a voucher just sign a paper, that was all. They trusted It was a tough New Years Eve for me, too, said Kelly, because we knew more or less what was going on. Then there was another reason. Some of the army officers were throwing a little New Years party with the nurses that night, and since this medical officer Peggy had been going with was just back from Bataan, of course I knew where le ) General Quiz W (W ferry-comma- streets deserted except for a few ' I A i ten-mi- people running nowhere in particular like crazy, planes crisscrossing the sky above. The big church, about a mile from shore, was just beginning to burn. In the harbor, boats were burning and sinking on ton-ner- s. all sides five and But not a single shot was fired at the planes which came down as low as five hundred feet. I went up on into the city, and everywhere people were kind and helpful. The Japs were right outside the town, and yet the storekeepers would give me anything we I took my boat into the ANOTHER I Chungking cabled back that it could be done. They said the Japs held the Swatow region thinly at no point did they go more than ten miles inland. So, at an agreed time, and at an agreed rendezvous on the coast, Chungking would send a raiding party down to fight its way to the beach and meet us. There we would burn our boats now useless with all torpedoes expended against Jap targets. The Chinese couldnt hold that point long but long enough to hustle us d strip through that onto free Chinese soil. There trucks would take us to the nearest airfield, we would fly to Chungking, and American from there a plane would bring us back to the States. Where was the flaw? We couldnt see one, unless somehow it leaked out. Besides myself, only four living people knew. They were of our squadron. Captain Ray, chief of staff, Colonel Wong, and of course the skipper here, who had worked out every detail. But before we left we knew there would be plenty of action ahead for us here, and I told Bulkeley I was crazy to get out of this hospital, and asked for his help. If theyd let me get back to duty, Id agree to anything promise to soak my hand for so many hours a day anything they said, just to get back even on a semiduty status. So we staged it for the next morning, when the ward doctor would be dressing my hand at about the same time the head surgeon made his rounds. We tackled him. I made my talk, and he seemed to waver. Tell this bird you need me, I said to the skipper. We really do, said Bulkeley, but just then Peggy overheard and queered the whole thing. Certainly not! she said. You cant let him go back to duty with That swung his hand him back. Dutyl he growled. Who said anything about duty? Two weeks of it and youd lose your whole arm. I tried to argue point out that if the MTBs went out on a mission, I could hold on with one arm as well as two, but Peggy had done it, and now he wouldnt listen. beer, to celebrate on. But Peggy had been preparing. The island was on two meals a day, but shed managed to hold back a couple of apples and a whole box of marshmallows. That was our New Years Eve supper, and Ill bet that yours, wherever you had it, couldnt have tasted any better. Running any kind of romance, no matter how mild, was a real problem on Corregidor. About the best place to sit was right down where we were, at the tunnels mouth. But the road ran right in front of it, and every five minutes an army truck would barge tactlessly around the curve, shining its dimmed-dow- n headlights right on you. Then for another three minutes you were choking with dust. If you got tired of this and tried to go for a walk, youd hardly get started when you would realize that eleven thousand men were trying to sleep all over that little island, and if you went far, you would step on most of them in the dark, and not many of them would thank you for it. There wasnt an unoccupied square foot anywhere. We proved that later on when the doctor prescribed walks for me to build back my strength, because Id lost thirty pounds and Peggy was assigned to go along. The troops swarmed on that island every pond vyas crowded with them bailing, and I would always have to go ahead to take a look (w (W (V. ASK ME FEATURES WHITE the little junior-grad- e noticed it. He had he gave orders he give, and presently (W over hilltops and be sure Peggy wouldnt surprise them. Meanwhile Bulkeley was reporting to the Admiral daily and was formulating a plan which he would talk over with me, as I was his second officer for what we would do when our gas ran out. We had damned little left, and the army couldnt spare us any. Our first plan- was, when we got down to our minimum, to get out to Australia. The navy patrol bombers had planted caches of gasoline among the islands like stepping-stoneand the Admiral gave us their location. But the first was Singapore, and the Japs were working their way down th peninsula, closer and closer to it. Could we get there first? Of course we wouldnt leave the Philippines until all of our torpedoes were gone and we had just enough gas left to make the final run. But then, as you know, Singapore fell and also the southern islands Celebes and Zamboanga. The route with the cached gas was closed that plan was out. So then we said, who wanted to go to Australia anyway? Our job was to defend Manila Bay wasnt that our part in the war plan? Yet even then it kept coming up: suppose the worst came to the worst and Luzon folded up the whole archipelago even Java what then? Then Bulkeley here hit on a real plan. When our gas was down to just what we could carry on our decks, instead of waiting around to get captured by the Japs, wed take our boats to China to continue the war. At first glance youd say that was crazy the Japanese holding most of the Chinese coast but not the way the skipper had it thought out. He knew China from the years hed spent out there on a gunboat while I was there on a destroyer. The Japs were closing in on Hong Kong that was fine for us Wed make our dash shoot our last few remaining fish at their gathered transports just where they least expected an attack, and then head north toward the region of Swatow Of course the Japs held that coast too, but Bulkeley had worked out an answer, all in the utmost secrecy. Hed gotten in touch with Colonel Wong, the Chinese military observer. Wong had cabled Chungking to investigate the vicinity. - s, step-pingsto- ne I Subscribe Worn IN THE WAR gun-fir- e I" (TO BE CONTINUED J NUTRITIVE VALUES OF THIAMIN cvnAMiM.., NIACIN AND IRON! CORN FLAKES 0Hifinal IN m Hlllll IMHHMOM IHtt KIMH for U. S. War Bonds |