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Show k EPJnfcliy. WERE T - - . white y oC$ FAR: The story ol "J fjue for PUMP" four ' flve l.r. all 'hat " ,e,t LTLiI Squadron J. They ft&W (n"W "'"i"" , wMdron commander; fn, iecond ln commnd; 'If ks nd George L eir "et order-'1 order-'1 General MacArtbur's T,ddiaonal personnel to al. m ey I Tcebii. General Mac" f JsulKeley be would try W.N.U.FEATURES in close to shore," said Bulkelclv. ine moon wasn't due until 2:30. I was riding in the 41 boat. Ensign Lox commanding, while Kelly had his 34 boat. We'd worked out our strategy. If two destroyers showed up. my boat was to tackle the leading lead-ing one and Kelly the second. If only one arrived, my boat would attack at-tack her on the quarter, and Kelly's on the bow. "At flve minutes to twelve Glover, the quartermaster at the wheel, called 'Look-there she is!' A black object was coming round the point, dumping Jesus!' said Glover. 'There she is!' because it was no little Jap destroyer but a thundering thunder-ing big Kuma class cruiser sliding around that point so clear we could almost make out her 6-inch guns. "I gave our boat a hard right rudder, sneaking in toward the shore where the cruiser couldn't see us. Apparently she was alone. Now we curved out, into firing position, on her port beam, making as little noise as we could, and as she passed, five hundred yards away, Cox fired two torpedoes, but they straddled! her." "We fired two from our side," said Kelly, "but they also missed." "After that," said Ensign Cox, "we in the 41 boat made a wide arc and attacked again with our last two torpedoes Bulkeley himself firing fir-ing them, and this time two of them hit, right under the bridge. They made no flash, but a good bump and a column of water. But even before that the cruiser had waked up probably saw the wakes of one of I the torpedoes anyway she speeded! up to twenty-five knots and herj searchlight came on and she waved j it wildly around in the air. Droba- marine's empty tubes we stuffed food, and I kept thinking, as we shoved it in-there's another square meal for Peggy back there on the Rock. "But that wasn't half of it Be-cause Be-cause in addition to the subs-the last one shoved off on April 5-there were seven fat lnterisland steamers being secretly loaded with food down near 'Dad' Cleland's dock-medical supplies, quinine the boys were dying dy-ing without, everything they needed to hold on. But how could they hope to get these fat little tubs up through the islands to Bataan' Bulkeley was to find out three days later." "The General in command at Cebu called me In and verified the hints we'd heard of the big American Ameri-can offensive," said Bulkeley. "He assured me everything was set. It was to start at dawn the very next morning. That very night, twelve fortresses and heavy bombers were coming up from Australia. A swarm of P-35's were on their way up from Mindanao to Iloilo, where they were to gas up and go into action. "The bombers were to land at Mindanao, gas up, take off, and blow the be-Jesus out of every Jap war-ship war-ship in the region, and meanwhile the convoy of interisland steamers would start for Bataan, bringing food enough for weeks. Bataan was to be saved after all. "The General showed me messages mes-sages from all the other generals who commanded in different islands, co ordinating the offensive. But there was one minor hitch, he explained. ex-plained. "Aerial reconnaissance had spotted spot-ted a couple of Jap destroyers steaming down the coast of Neeros ) UPTEBXSI , was frantic to get ' little fleet back Into ' Tt could finish out started the war with were lost off Ba-, Ba-, lost on the escape jut kft only three, and nXt wrecks, fit only jock, Bulkeley'i being 11 left In fighting condi-W,i condi-W,i bound to get the sto shape. Did I think jlM to Cebu? Wuld try, and we start-poor start-poor old boat with her Mi twelve knots, her irijgling like a ship-ar'i ship-ar'i dream of a French edjitar. Whatever she now, it wasn't fighting, lad we didn't meet any sine ihop was run by 4 i leventy-one-year-i who'd been in the is-s:t is-s:t and a swell gent he ; from Minnesota and hulking frontiersman. bly looking for torpedo planes." "Our torpedoes were all gone In the 41 boat," said Bulkeley, "but I turned around and ran astern of the cruiser to draw her fire so Kelly could get in for his second attack. Then we saw the destroyers, but they wouldn't give chase, although I tried to create the illusion of a lot of boats by firing machine-gun tracers." "When the cruiser's searchlight came on," said Kelly, "I turned right to cross her wake and came in on her other quarter. She picked me up astern with her lights and began banging away at me with her secondary batteries 50-calibers and 40-millimeter guns from about twelve hundred yards. The stuff was going right over our heads in a continuous con-tinuous stream of fire. "But I was good and mad because our first torpedoes had missed," said : Kelly, "so I decided to chase her. J I told one machine-gunner to fire at her searchlight, which was blind-; ing me, and the others to sweep hcrj decks to get her gun crews. j "After a few minutes' chase, we bad closed in to three hundred yards so close that her searchlight seemed to be coming right down on ! us from an angle about like the ( sun in mid-afternoon. Then I drew ; out onto her starboard quarter and ' fired our last two torpedoes an ' overtaking shot They were the last , ' two our squadron was to fire in the 1 war. "Then I gave the boat a hard right i day over fifty and ot patriarch ln those aSve name meant 'the lie headman' in Taga- i peat gourmet, too. r and me out to dinner bottled beer (a great : crab-meat cocktail, irter Newburg, which s, but 'Dad kept warn-i warn-i back, because then i couple of roast ducks, it simple, like the last -jnony. Just delicious ;:es and Chase & San-It San-It was a magnificent t native chow I'd been talked about the war. m felt the show was as miraculous help ar- tjou going to do when art' we asked 'Dad.' :ed up-all six feet two :y dignity to think il Tm not going to stay right here and i working for the gov-' gov-' dollar a year. When -sied with our repairs asoy days we asked 4 the bill was. "We'll V he said. 'You fight Si 'em. It's the least ail big fist, and it a size of a nail keg. Me back here I've ae outfits working on " ' .' i p V W .1 . i y , S j nl Cis'"4iJt MVWtMfi1 Lift v.,j Sfcvv:- "Then I gave the boat a hard right rudder and started running away for we were defenseless now except for our machine guns. But the rain of Jap tracers kept right on, and suddenly another Jap ship showed up fifteen hundred yards away. Both started firing their main batteries at me and we were trapped between splashes all around us now, as close as twenty-five yards. We started zigzagging wildly, trying to dodge the two searchlights, and also the stream of fire which was crisscrossing criss-crossing above our heads like wicker wick-er basketry, and landing in the water wa-ter all around us. It seemed like weeks, but was probably only a few seconds. My Junior officer, Ensign Richardson, had the wheel, while I was watching the cruiser through my binoculars. Suddenly I saw a big splash and detonation in the middle of her belly another two seconds, another splash and detonation deto-nation right in her engine room! Our overtaking shots had both hit home! Her searchlight went from bright yellow to orange to red to dull brick-red and finally winked out Every gun stopped firing. She was jet-black now. j "But I didn't have much time for philosophizing, because thli other destroyer was on my starboard bow, closing in. banging away with her 8V4-inch guns and me with only 50-j caliber machine guns left" "Kelly got twenty-three salvoes of SH-inch steel that night" said Bulkeley. "But there was no doubt that his two torpedoes polished off the cruiser. I iw her searchlight fade out and heavy yellow smoke, arise Her stern was under in three , minutes the destroyer put the searchlight on her decks, where the Japs were all running around, not knowing where to go-and she had lunk in twenty. "But I was running around witbj three destroyers after me, which were firing sU they had, and I could see another one hot on Kelly's tail. That was the last I could see ol him and I thought he was a goner. ,.My destroyers chased me down to Misamis, but at dawn I dove into fl nlace to hide-there were six milei of shallow water where they couldn't follow even if they had seen me. We sDent the day sleeping. P (TO BE CONT1SUED) "He clenched his big fist, and it was about the size of a nail keg." Island. Somewhat to the eastward there was a cruiser which carried four seaplanes, but they weren't worried wor-ried about it. But that afternoon reports had come in giving the progress prog-ress of the Jap destroyers. Obviously Obvi-ously they were heading toward Cebu. Maybe they had broken down our American codes and knew about the interisland steamers, and were coming in either to blockade them or to shell them at the dock. "Why couldn't we have a part in this great offensive which tomorrow tomor-row was to sweep up and blast Jap shipping and warships between Mindanao, Min-danao, Cebu, and Bataan?" Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Kelly thought. "We could be helpful by going out tonight and knocking off one or both of those Jap destroyers, which by midnight should be approaching the narrow channel between Cebu and Negros Islands. The cruiser never mind her, American bombers would polish pol-ish her off in the morning." "Bulkeley came in at eight o'clock that night and told me about it" aid Kelly. "My boat had been in the water Just four hours she was upposed to soak for twenty-four before she should be exposed to any pounding, but I asked bim if we couldn't go out with him. 'I was hoping you'd like to,' the skipper told me. Think you can make it?' 1 don't know,' I said, but we'll loon find out This'll be as good a dock trial for her as any.' " To man the boats I called for volunteers." said Bulkeley. "I had no trouble about that I guess they understood by now that any man who doesn't volunteer won't be in the squadron long if I can get rid of him." "They were all tickled to be in on the big offensive," said Kelly. "It was apparently so well prepared that the army had given us the radio frequency of the co-ordinating planes that big American air umbrella um-brella which would be spread over us at dawn-in case we needed to talk with them." "We got out to the island passage about 11:30 that night and sneaked irao were paying their 'Hfty thousand dollars Urging it to the gov-!?enses gov-!?enses until they were 1 waste of time to in-,a't in-,a't et old 'Dad' Cle-l;! Cle-l;! nd let him go in i them in their swiv-v& swiv-v& those big fists of :w tow to expostulate -'like that It to Cebu we hadn't c the war started. ; Hie men all got paid spectacle. The M going from bar " 5 two thousand dol-y- If it had been d, they would have as quick, although gained them 5me. back to' their "livelihood, which with the army, 'removing in Cebu, ; aJ began to hear American offensive rolling up from the islands in tim. J- Wch was almost Ammunition. Word '"bmarfaei were ar- li wound. The ?t night and by wiped until our cause they were 5'fr or .oldler J" In a naUv. 8et to the Japi. ttt. w. workPed nn..ch.d..tow. ub8. but Joking of Peggy ;fang up thereon C Was le" of the them. To ,triPPe(l toe fesVave 'em k?iM oat u we J em for us with the iub- - JwMTB'i were al into the aub- |