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Show THEY WERE IT titrst Leather for Army of The five top grades I kather are reserved for theandarav the the navy, the coast guard our largest Many oft marines. J WHITE W.N.U-FEATUttES THE STOST BO TAM.: Tae alery at part la the battle tor the Pkilia-pl- e Is keiac told y foar ol th lv arc ail that is lei of alBccrf Motor Torpedo Boat Sqaadroa J. The? ara Lieut. Joba Bulkeley ao Lie attaint Connudn), iqutru commaader; Lieut R. B. Kelly. aad Caiifat Anlhoay Akcr aad George B. Cox Jr. After learaia that Pearl Barter had beea horn bed, Lieut. Buiae-It- y ordered Ueat. Kelly to take thru of (a all torpedo boat to Bilui where they reuM get prortUoa aad fuel from a fabmarlna leader. But whea thry arrived, taejr found that tbe tender bad beea ordered away. So they act aa headquarter la 8tima Cote. Cheir uiti II CHAPTER "For the most part we lived on our boats had to, because we never knew when we would have to haul out into the bay in case of a attack. Anyway we had dive-bomb- er a base again. "Next, we found our barges loaded with gasoline in drums which had been towed out into the bay for us by the navy if they got smacked by bombs, they didn't want them burning near the wharves. There was nobody in charge but a watch man. Each boat holds two thousand gallons, and of course it was a job pouring all that through a fun- ' nel. "We noticed, as we poured, that this gas had both water and rust in it yet there was no way to strain it out; we had no chamois. What we couldn't then know was, this gas had been sabotaged. We'll never find out when or where the guy who did it is safe, if he's alive. But someone had dissolved wax in it rwax which congealed inside our gas tanks in a coat half an inch thick wax which clogged our niters so that sometimes we'd have to stop and clean them after an hour's run. That's the fuel we had to fight the war on, we were to find out. "Ten I went over to the section base to make arrangements for our i food, and we got another bump. i The navy already realized a food f shortage was coming and cut us down to two rations a day break-- fast and supper. All you got for about ; lunch was stomach cramps noon; There was plenty of them. "I also thought I'd better have the doctor look at my finger. I'd snagged it a few days before and j hadn't paid much attention, but now j it was swollen about as thick as a 'walnut. I guessed maybe it was a minor strep infection. What I didn't know 'was that out East the streptococci are bigger and meaner than bulldogs and not to be fooled with. He took one look and began to talk about the hospital, but I said the hell with that. I was the second of- -i ficer of the squadron and badly i ; ; ! I i " i : i it was their first crack at the Japs. I remember Chalker's face; he's a machinist's mate from Texarkana a shootin' Texas boy. He was pourslugs up at them, cooling 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 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 33 boat got one. Meanwhile the 31 boat had shot down two more. After that the planes didn't bother strafing 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 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 to go up any minute. We offered to take him with us to Mariveles, but he said no, his job was here, to J &- a- i ( if J I I S "'We settled that I'd come over to see this doctor daily. i i vj "The big alarm came at noon on December 10 we'd pulled up along-- ; side a mine sweeper for water when ' word came that a large flight of Jap planes was headed toward theManila, area, coming from the direction of Formosa. We pulled away from the tender, out into open water, and fifteen minutes later we them several formations I . saw to twen- -. counted about twenty-seve- n in each planes bombers lovely, tight, parade-- ; ground formations, coming over at about 25,000 feet But, I thought, when our fighters get up there and start rumpling their hair, those for-- ; nations won't look so pretty. Only where were our fighters? The Japs passed on out of sight over the mountains, and then we began hear- t ing the rumble of bombs only first we felt the vibrations on our feet, even out there in the water, and we knew something was catching hell. But what? Manila? Maybe Nichols Field? Or even Cavite, our own base? We couldn't know." "I did," said Bulkeley laconical- ' ly. "I was there, at Cavite. The Admiral sent us a warning ' . that they were coming from For- I ' mosa, and headed on down in our . -. rt ijiti I .irin unm.H i. ill iiuir. i . h I .1 rjj!... J. . w aWhM w out our boats into the we hauled bay. They kept beautiful formations, all right. The first big V had fifty-foplanes in it, and they came : in at about 20,000, with their flght- ers on up above to protect them from ours only ours didn't showt We couldn't figure it. First they swung over Manila and began to paste the harbor shipping. It was a beautiful clear day, and I remem-- i ber the sun made rainbows on the waterspouts of their bombs. They were from a hundred and fifty to two hundred feet high, and it made a mist screen so dense you could hardly tell what was happening to the ships. It turned out nothing much was they only hit a few. "But then that big beautiful V piv- oted slowly and moved over Cavite began, circling it like a flock of buzzards. "They were too high to see the bomb bay doors open, but we could see the stuff drop slowly, picking up speed; only as we watched we found we had troubles of our own. Because five little dive bombers peeled off that formation, one by one, and started straight down for us. When they were down to about fifteen hundred feet, they leveled off and began unloading. Of course we gave our boats full throttle and began circling and twisting, both to dodge the bombs and to get a shot at them. Our gunners loved it F . Sf " bw TV. "Si ua a . : . two-mot-or ty-ni- ne , I s , I i f 1 .5, A - f two-ho- : , ' l XT V. ; . i ur I J I i ; - .? i j ? I s ; ? I ,! ! ed . ; i1 f j i ' , i i a 1 . 1 "Later I found out what the Japs apparently already knew." do what he could to save the maga zines. "So we picked up from the gutters and streets a lot of cans of food we knew we would need they were from the bombed warehouse- sstacked 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 youngster from New York. "They were burying the dead which consisted of collecting heads and arms and legs and putting them into the nearest bomb crater and shoveling debris over it. The smell was terrible. The Filipino 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 algood-lookin- -haired g yellow- up-sta- te 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 - the Japs left the scene. "But it wasn't until Lieutenant De- Long dropped in at four o'clock in the 41 boat that I knew how bad oft we were. He said the Cavite base was e roaring blast furnace the yard littered with those man gled and scorched bodies and furthermore that all our spare parts for the MTB s engines and every thing had been blasted to bits. 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 e voice stuff to talk with Manila or Bataan or the Rock, but of course this couldn't be secret from the Japs, so they would be depending on our six boats for courier duty to relay all confidential stuff." "So I wasn't surprised," said Bulkeley, "when early the next morning I got a hurry call to report to the Admiral in Manila. As our 34 boat cleared the mine fields around Bataan, looking over toward a- short-wav- vjvntfsk Bars Time to Check and Recondition Tractor Points for Checkup Routine Are Listed twenty-se- e, anti-aircra- j ; Manila I saw something very queer shipping of all descriptions was pouring out of that Manila breakwater into the open harbor destroy ers, mine sweepers, Yangtze River gunboats, tramp steamers, all going hell for breakfast. And then I saw them a big formation of about ven bombers. By theii I was beginning to learn that if we saw planes in the air, they would be Japs, not ours. Then came another and still formation of twenty-ninanother 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 bay's perimeter, and each time they Passed Manila a load would go whis tling down and presently huge col umns of black and white smoke began rising we could even see some fires, 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 something?' "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 impudently right over Corregidor! Didn't they know we had anti-ai- r craft guns? "They knew all right, but it turned out they knew something I didn't. For presently all twenty of Corregi- dor's 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 already knew that the Rock's guns didn't have the range. And only then did it begin to dawn on me how completely impotent we were. sole If you want to save yourself some exasperating moments in the field this spring and make your tractor last longer, too W. C. Krueger, extension agricultural engineer at Rutgers university, suggests you thoroughly check and recondition the tractor now. "It doesn't make any difference whether a tractor has been in storage all winter or whether it has been in occasional use it still needs a general reconditioning," Krueger says. 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When we reported. Commander Slocum told me the Ad miral was considering sending our three boats on a raid off Lmgayen, 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 had escaped so far, but right here on the water front it was too vulsure to get smacked. nerable Through the open door we could see the Admiral conferring with his chief of staff. "But just then," said Kelly, "Commander 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-j- ust 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 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-era 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 l haa to keep my arm held up, or blood running down into it would drive me nuts, and it stiffened that way. 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