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Show k was tneir first crack at the Japs I remember Chalker's face; he's a machinist's mate from Texarkana-a Texarkana-a shootin- Texas boy. He was pour-lng pour-lng 50-cahber slugs up at them, cool-er cool-er than a pail of cracked ice. but that long, straight, pointed jaw of his was set. Houlihan, who was firing the other pair of 50's, was the same They'd picked out one plane and were pouring it up into the sky, when we saw the plane wobble, and pretty pret-ty soon she took off down the bay weaving unsteadily, smoking, and all at once, two or three miles away, she Just wobbled down into the drink with a big splash. So we know the 35 boat got one. Meanwhile the 31 boat had shot down two more. After that the planes didn't bother strafing straf-ing the MTB's. Guess the Jap pilots back at their Formosa base passed the word around. "We went on back to Cavite and offered to carry more wounded. The big base was one sheet of flame except ex-cept for the ammunition depot. Only a piece of the dock was left, and through the shimmering flames you could see only jagged walls. Then we saw Admiral Rockwell he was directing the fire apparatus which was trying to save the depot. He is a tall man, a fine figure of a sailor, but his head was down that day. In a dead voice he told us we'd better get out that the magazine was liable lia-ble to go up any minute. We offered to take him with us to Mariveles, but he said no, his job was here, to I,. fr: The story " I r. orth. Philip- !W arS faB that is left of u IS? (now L,eute: l MMdron commander, L lecond In-command; " "Urf-Ueut Bulke; Kelly Uke three of 5 Ju Bataan where Jristoas nd fuel from " S But when they M- i ttut th. tender had y. S. the, set up 5 , siilmaB Cave. V it iPTER 11 II part we lived on i to because we nev-1 nev-1 q we would have to - the bay in case of a tuck. Anyway we had ! und our barges loaded i u drums which had " t Into the bay for us if they got smacked ey didn't want them f the wharves. There i charge but a watch-boat watch-boat holds two thou-Vid thou-Vid of course it was a that through a fun- t as we poured, that ith water and rust in fas no way to strain lt b chamois. What we know was, this gas lotaged. We'll never I or where the guy fjafe, If he's alive. But ! dissolved wax In it gealed inside our gas t half an inch thick ;ged our filters so that Id have to stop and Jitter an hour's run. l we had to fight the fere to find out. lit over to the section arrangements for our got another bump, eady realized a food coming and cut us rations a day breaker. break-er. All you got for omach cramps about was plenty of them, ght I'd better have the at my finger. I'd few days before and Manila I saw something very queer r70 )r nPBmg.0f aU descriptions was wTr fl0' that Manila break-water break-water into the open harbor-destroy- tnnKmi."e '"P"5. Yangtze River & utramp steams. all going JeU for breakfast. And then I saw inem-a big formation of about twen-even twen-even bombers. By then I was beginning to learn that if we saw Planes i3 the air, they would be Japs, not ours. Then came another formation of twenty-nine, and stiU another of twenty-six. "If they were after shipping, we shouldn't get too close to the other Boats, so I changed course. They wheeled majestically around the fay s perimeter, and each time they Passed Manila a load would go whistling whis-tling down and presently huge columns col-umns of black and white smoke be-gan be-gan nsing-we could even see some Gres, although we were still,eleven miles away. " 'Where in hell is our air force?' our crew kept asking me. 'Why in Christ's name don't they do some- ' thing?' I "But the thing that really got me ' was that these big Jap formations, circling the bay like it was a parade maneuver, each time would sail im-pudently im-pudently right over Corregidorl Didn't they know we had -anti-aircraft guns? "They knew all right, but it turned out they knew something I didn't. For presently all twenty of Corregi-dor's Corregi-dor's 3-inchers opened fire, and it made me sick to see that every one of their shells was bursting from 5,000 to 10,000 feet below that Jap formation. Those pilots were as safe as though they'd been home in bed. Later I found out what the Japs apparently ap-parently already knew that the Rock's anti-aircraft guns didn't have the range. And only then did it begin be-gin to dawn on me how completely impotent we were. "When the Japs cleared out," continued con-tinued Bulkeley, "Kelly and I headed head-ed for Manila and docked about three o'clock. When we reported, Commander Slocum told me the Admiral Ad-miral was considering sending our three boats on a raid off Lingayen, and were we ready? We said we were rarin' to go. So he said to stick around a couple of hours, and meanwhile to load the boats with files, records, and so forth, because they were moving headquarters. It 4 . i fj z sis t,r "z- jr - 'f ucn attention, dui now s about as thick as a ?ssed maybe it was a Section. What I didn't t out East the strepto-er strepto-er and meaner than not to be fooled with, oak and began to talk spital, but I said the I was the second of-iadron of-iadron and badly need-that need-that I'd come over to r daily. irm came at noon on -we'd pulled up along-neper along-neper for water when iat a large flight of as headed toward the coming from the di-aosa. di-aosa. We pulled away ?r, out into open wa-i n minutes later we TOal formations I twenty-seven to twen-s twen-s in each two-motor 'ovely, tight, parade-''Dns, parade-''Dns, coming over at 'est. But, I thought, l! get up there and 2 their hair, those for-1 for-1 tok so pretty. Only IJf fighters? The Japs u' of sight over the d then we began hear-'e hear-'e of bombs only first Orations on our feet, re in the water, and sething was catching Manila? Maybe f even Cavite, our e couldn't know." "Later I found out what the Japs apparently already knew." do what he could to save the magazines. maga-zines. "So we picked up from the gutters gut-ters and streets a lot of cans of food we knew we would need they were from the bombed warehouses-stacked warehouses-stacked them in the boat, and set out." "I was back there a couple of days later after the fires were out," said Ensign Cox, a good-looking yellow-haired youngster from up-state New York. "They were burying the dead which consisted of collecting heads and arms and legs and putting put-ting them into the nearest bomb crater and shoveling debris over it. The smell was terrible. The Filipino Fili-pino yard workers didn't have much stomach for the Job, but it had to be done and done quick because of disease. To make them work, they filled the Filipinos up with grain al- had escaped so far, but right here on the water front it was too vulnerable vul-nerable sure to get smacked. Through the open door we could see the Admiral conferring with his chief of staff. "But just then," said Kelly, "Commander "Com-mander Slocum looked down at my arm, which was in a sling, frowned, and said I should get over to see the fleet doctor. The doctor took off the bandage and began to talk tough. Said he couldn't do anything, and that I was to get that arm to a hospital as fast as I could. "I was dead set on that raid, but I decided it wouldn't be tactful to bring that up, so I said, 'Aye, aye, sir,' and skipped it. We loaded the boat with records, and then went back to headquarters, where we were told that the Jap convoy off Lingayen included eight transports and at least two battleships (one of these must have been the one that Colin Kelly later got), but that we weren't going to be sent. They were saving us for 'bigger things.' " 'My God!' my junior officer said later, 'I didn't know they came any bigger! What do they think we are?' "Anyway the Admiral patted Bulkeley on the shoulder and said, 'We know you boys want to get in there and fight, but there's no sense sending you on suicidal missions-just missions-just now.' "So that was that, and we went on out across the bay, to our thatched village. "You might call the next few days quiet for us, although my arm began be-gan giving me helL "Presently Bulkeley dropped in on us in the 41 boat, bringing us some stuff issued by the navy to replace everything we'd lost at our quarters in Cavite-a shirt each, underdraw-ers, underdraw-ers, a few tubes of toothpaste, and razors two for each boat, one for the men and one for the officers. But with each razor there were only three packages of blades, so we saw beards in the offing. "Bulkeley had heard about my hand from a pharmacist's mate and asked me if I could stick it for two more days until he could relieve me. He himself had to be on call for consultation with the Admiral, while they needed DeLong and his boat for courier duty. I said 'sure.' "But the next few days were hell. The whole arm began swelling, and my hand was the size of a catcher's mitt The nights were worse because I couldn't lie down for any length of time. Also I had to keep my arm held up, or blood running down into ft would drive me nuts, and it stiff-ened stiff-ened that way. The doctor at Mariveles Mari-veles kept offering me morphine, but I didn't dare. There might be an imergency where we'd have to get Z Zl out to sea quickly. Bulke-Shad Bulke-Shad left me in charge, and mor-phine mor-phine might make me sleep so hard I couldn't waken for an air-raid alarm. The worst thing was the fl es-they kept buzzing around try-J try-J to get Into that open incision Smyilnser as I held my hand up ta me air! And also I was runn.ng ."Si feVer-about four degrees. (TO BE COSTIWED) I- oujiceiey laconical-'ff. laconical-'ff. at Cavite. The two-hour warning re coming-from For. !a1ed on down in our ,SJ Northern Luzon. So Lrtts out fat0 the Pt beautiful forma-mhS forma-mhS fim bi8Vd 8 to it, and they came . with their fight-to fight-to Protect them f ours didn't show! ft 't. First they JJJ and began to "hipping. It was Jtoy . and I remem. J fainow, on the bombs. They 1 f1 and 11 mde ihit you could ;, happening to hit a few. Loved over Cavite kL f ' flock ot ""hazards. L hieh to see the llS81; but we could slowly, pickin4 trourT Watched we kit' bmbers rjaight down for Tetd?r t0 ab"t EtoiW ey leveled 4 T both to Eton t0 get Ot loved it- cohol." "That raid gave me my first big shock of the war," said Lieutenant Kelly, "but it wasn't the damage they did. From over in Mariveles I couldn't see what was happening after the Jap bombers disappeared over the mountain. I got my shock after they had unloaded and flew over us on their way home the same beautiful tight formations not a straggler. Where was our air force? "From over towards Cavite we could now see that huge column of smoke rising into the sky as the Japs left the scene. "It wasn't until Lieutenant De-Long De-Long dropped in at four o'clock in the 41 boat that I knew how bad off we were. He said the Cavite base was a roaring blast furnace the yard Uttered with those mangled man-gled and scorched bodies-and furthermore fur-thermore that all our spare parts for the MTB's-engines and every-thing-had been blasted to bits. Machine Ma-chine shops completely gone. Not so much as a gasket left to see us through this war. with the factory halfway around the world. "Also he said the Cavite radio had been hit. That still left the short-wave voice stuff to talk with Manila or Bataan or the Rock, bu of course this couldn't be secret from the Japs, so they would be depending de-pending on our six boats to courier duty to relay all confidential stuff. "So I wasn't surprised, said Bulkeley. "when early the next morning I got a hurry caU to report re-port to the Admiral in Manila. As our 34 boat cleared the m.ne fields around Bataan, looking over toward |