Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-01-07 | Page 10 | Seaman Tells of South Sea Fight with Nips

Seaman Tells Of South Sea Fight With Nips Japs Jags were so thick in the water they looked like coU coffee e grounds boiling to the top of the pot That's how Ervin Foster water tender second class in the United States navy described a scene Inthe in inthe inthe the sea battle off the Solomons In which the task force of which his his ship was a part p rt sank 26 or 27 Jap warships and transports Se Seaman man Foster h home me on oil leave to visit his wife Mrs Ellen Viola Foster and their year old daughter daugh daugh- ter Barb Barbara ra Jean Was was in the water for more than six hours hour after his ship was s sunk in the battle Picked up by a marine corps boat from Guadal Guadalcanal nat he spent two weeks on the island amid d daily fighting bombing and shellfire shellfire shell- shell fire tire until taken off by y a navy transport A former Utah Power and Light company he had served a term in the navy nary before his marri mar mar- ri ge That's where I learned my trade he said Im going back soon to another destroyer