Show t ' N t 4 s ' - " t ' zbe 5alt 'gake Zeibunt Sunday Morning ' '' January 10 19 ‘ I-- ' for: 1ho: NaVy F1-7- batteries to such a degree that our dive bombers were able to Zrop bomb after bomb on the enemy ships without serious interference As a result the navy dive bombers scored many hits and during this phase of the action inflicted upon the enemy the following damage: The Kaga Akagi and Soryu aircraft carriers were severely damaged Gasoline in the planes on their flight and hangar decks was Ignited starting fires which burned until each 'carrier had jUne 9 After I got off my fish I VI:Tied north staying low and going as fast ai I couid While I was stilt low there and a sit ter for a fighter two Zeroes made runs on me Neither of them fired and I suppose they had run out of ammunition having used it on the rest of the boys About this time I' aaw another torpedo plane— the first Itiad noticed since my torpedo run I pulled over and aaw it was Heck (Fnsign Heck a Missouri farm boy r 'While closing over toward him a Japanese seaplane fighter 3 or some big armored vessels of equivalent tonnage There were several heavy cruisers they said and dozens of destroyers Goidie told me: "As soon as the Japs saw us they started B their funny evasive out a and each lot They spread carrier started turning pendently What they seemed to be doing was just turning Inde- round and round in tight circles The rest of the ships were crisscrossing and snake dancing First Two Carriers Largest in Convoy "From what I could see it seemed that the first two carriers in the fleet line were the biggest I thought they were probably the Kaga and the The third was the Soryu Akagt or the Hiryu smaller but fast Not one of them seemed to be damaged when we arrived They didn't seem to have been touched by any Other attack no smoke And all were traveling 20 to 25 Biala Fourth Nip Ship to Destruction Late on the 'afternoon of the fourth our fliers found a fourth Japanese carrier and blasted it to destruction It was the air group from this carrier that at- tacked and critically damaged the Yorktown which was with ue The was sunk later by final torpedoes from a sUbtharine but on the fourth the initial damage was done by air Our boys sank the carrier that had based the Japs who hit the Yorktown - Deatroyer Opens Y-to- Fire on fliers We had almost cleared the still going north and JpL were getting ready to breathe easier when a destroyer on our port bow opened up and gave us a scare That ships gunners sent shells uncomfortably close and served us with an anticlimax The destroyer would hold its' fire for perhaps 10 seconds or so getting our range and then would give us salvos The shells would burst in front We would dive turn of us and go off on a slightly different course Finally e slid into some clouds and heard no more from that Nip As we were leaving the dive bombers were just attacking Ard they were doing a marvelous job They didn't have to contend with the Jap fighters that were down low after us Nor did they get as much A A fire becalure the gunners with their weapons depressed to blast at us coming in at water level didn't hive time to readjust their nights and swing the barrels into position for vertical shooting Bud's squadron (Lieutenant Edwin J Kroeger of the bombing squadron—he now holds the disting-uished flying cross and the navy cross) got into the air at 925 a m on the morning of the fourth In all there were I believe 33 planes Eighteen in scouting and 15 of the bombing squadron They were all carryd bombe—the first ing time these had been used front our carrier although the boys in the Coral sea battle had used them The scouting and bomb-- i trig squadrons both use Douglas Dauntless (SBD) dive bombing planes They have long range relatively but only mock crate speed As I said we got separated from them and found the Japa before they did In fact it was 1000-poun- Ns two-seat- ?tombs Hit Marks On Japaneae Ship we saw their bombs start towering fires Explosions were and tearing up the flight deckswater sending up huge spouts of all around all three carriers Great billows of smoke and too "The fighters were low down We didn't run into them until we were below three or four thousand feet They were waiting for us at the end of our pullouts where we were sitters These were the first Zeros we'd seen and we were all interested in how they performed Well let me tell you they performed Group Makes Sweep Around Nip Vesnels Their group came in from the southeast finally passed south of the Japs making a sweep around them Then the air group turned north so they could comeL down finally from the due north In their dives All of the scouting squadron led by Mr Gal- laher (Lieutenant Commander James T Gallaher) went down at the first big carrier in the line of three that they could see Five ships from our bombing squadron also went down on this carrier making 23 in all The airplanes from our bombing squadron hit the second carrier and 15 to 18 scout bombers from the Yorktown hit the third Jap carrier They caught those Japs in the clear and could see everything perfectly They assured me that my estimates on the numbers of Japanese ships were very- conservative They say there were at least 50 ships In that big armada Among them were several battleships flarn ware flowing and folding over each other as they mounted into the sky behind tia But when Heck and I got hack and got down through the AA fire of our own gunners who were jittery at this time we found that of the 14 planes from our torpedo squadron only Those four four were home the planes of Heck of Laub (Lieutenant (j g) R El of Smith Laub of Kansas( (Chief Machinist's Mate S B Smith an Iowan) and myself Smith's plane was so badly shot up it was a miracle it could ' plenty" U S fliers Agree Jape Plenty Tough' - 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OIL ek - Al" avfotue Yugoslays Honor Noted Inventor - — - tounding things happening For Instance take the case of Tony Schneider (Ensign Anthony Schneider of the bombing squadThere was something ron) wrong with Tony's carburetor and he ran out of fuel just as self-sealin- two-we- as -7 1 i: Women Hard of Hearing their flying watchinhavingtheir airplanes "They would climb above us '41N o r----- rourv-v- been some have Bud says that after the initial attack on the main Jap fleet he and a friend came back to the carrier together singing and wisecracking via radio to each other Then they went out in the afternoon to attack the fourth and fifth Jap carriers and the other boy just didn't turn up again Bud couldn't believe for several days that he was gone '''' st Wanted! g' gorto i - Those Japs were very tough both boys agree A lot of the scouts and dive bombers were knocked down close to the Jap fleet and after they had released their bombs Both Goldsmith and Roberts however escaped there and joined up with four other American dive bomber pilots When they started home four Zeroes jumped the formation "They had so much speed on us that they flew circles around us" Goldsmith said "We were pulled into tig:it formation which was proper But our gunners were out of ammunition or their guns were jammed or something Anyway we wern't doing any firing at them as they made run after run on us from the rear I sat there looking 4r There ' : splash We circled one ship saw the boys get out and into their rubber boat then had to go on Land on Yorktown As Emergency Move "In the end everybody went down but Roberts and myself We got back to the Yorktown and although it wasn't our carrier we made the emergency signal and landed anyway Neither of us had any fuel left We both could see our own carrier only 20 miles away but neither of us thought we could make it Bill Roberts told me almost the same story He said that all the Jap carriers were burning fiercely when the bombers left He also said Goldie's them S B D was so shot up that he couldn't understand how it kept i flying "A thing that was very funny later happened during that flight My rear gunner was WilMen liam D Steinman machinist's mate first class While the Zeros Who still were shooting at us he called me on interphone and told me he was badly hit I tried to this eimple no risk hearing talk to him- - but he said noth- testTo make If you are temporarily deafened so was he I bothered probby ringing buzzing bead noises ing thought due to hardened or coagulated wax t ceruably gone try the °urine Homo Method test that so many say has enabled them to hear "Fifteen minutes later after men) better the Japs left us Steinmaiii called wmealltinalfailliii ergirpl:attlentst boarar about Ourine me again as chipper as can be monet back st once Ask and asked 'Say Mr Roberts Ligifilart°0541 t4W:57 abtan2w1 Pay LaMdayal water I think I got a direct hit - I your fist the bombing ships squadron There was very little AA fire and no fighters on the way down We came in within a few seconds of one another getting hits and near hits with almost every drop I SAW the results of Bud Kroeger's bomb As I was nearing my release point I saw his bomb hit about thi middle of the Jap's flight deck A fighter that was trying to take off had just gotten into the air The blast turned the Jap turtle and it fell into the almost three hours after they left the ship before they started their attack The Japs definitely were going northwest when they saw them These dive bomber boys go high—up to around 20000 feet—when making their attacks and they could see every- thing perfectly Bud and Bill Roberts (Lieutenant William' Roberts of Detroit Mich) and Goldie (Ensign George Goldsmith of Atmore Ala) told me what I'm now writing off If you suffer from rheumatic are thritis or neuritis pain tryr tuts allnr44 home recipe that thou inexpensive are using Get a packas sands Etu-a supply Compound Mix It with a quart or water today 4 lemons Its easy No add th juice of trouble at all and plettaluat You needa only 3 tablespoonfuls48 two tittles nours—erwrie4 Often within day reaulta are times overnight—splendidIf the pains do not quickly 3buttned leave and if you do not feel better re turn the empty package and au-L- k will cost you nothing to try as It le at- sold by your druggist under an littl-solute money-bac- k guarantee reOommendand Compound is for sale (Atte-ed by drug stores everywhere down - te g but the business worked the tank was tight when I got downran out of "After the Zeros ammunition they turned away and left us alone The heartbreaking losses from our formation started after that because four of us ran out of fuel and landings on finally had to make the sea One by one they dropped out went down settled with a "It worked 'that way "We started our dives at around 20000 feet I was in the group that hit the No 1 Jap carrier We were just behind of the five er Japs"Hot Lead' "When we got down I found that a glancing bullet bounced off instrument panel in front of Steinman went through his lower lip and into his mouth It was B pent though and he found himself chewing on that chunk of hot lead The bleeding of his lip and his confusion caused him at first to think he was badly hurt Luckily he wasn't at all" The same things that happened to Bill and Goldie's group happened to lots of other scouts They just ran out of fuel and went down A few have been picked up but only a few One of the reasons is that the boys went down a little northwest of Midway The prevailing winds are from the northeast which would blow them away f rom Midway The island is the only land in the area and the winds blew the crews out into the just western Pacific The nearest land to the the direction they would float would be Wake island some 1400 miles west-southwe- I Chec!3Rheumatic Pain cuicLly McPherson solidated bimotored patrol boat) sight him and pick him up He and hLs gunner were eight days in the water but they came out of it okeh They had four quarts of fresh water when they started arid they still had nearly two quarts when picked up All the boys tell the same story about not seeing other men in their squadron shot On safety knots "In this action we saw the truth in a Wisecrack our skipper (C ommander Gallaher) made before the battle He said: We don't need to lay any smoke screen to hit the Japs As soon as we drop a bomb or two on their decks they will furnish us with all the smoke we it had been peed' (Intopeacetime 'Proposed lay a smoke screen round the Tap fleet and attack through the screen War showed that this was not feasible) H By Lieutenant Irvin wouldn't you like me totake a 15 there with all picture of No the holes in it? It was like a voice from the graVe hearing No 15 was Goldie's plane and" It was amazingly shot up I told Steinman to go ahead and he did: Rear Gunner Chews dive make their firing run go on past and underneath us Then they would pull up in front of us in a sheer zoom They would go right on climbing on th eir backs until they would slowly roll out at the top of their maneuver and then be in position to dive on us again The differce in speed was enormous Bomber Gunner lilt By Three Slugs "We just had to sit there and take it My gunner J W Patterson was hit three times by 77 mm slugs One of the Japs a direct hit on Patterson's got twin-rea- r gun mount damaging it He flipped open his belt stood up and leaned way out trying to fix that mount It was then he was wounded by the next Jap to come by The slugs went into his arm and his hip "In spite of the advantages With the Japs they didn't sueceed in shooting any of us down and although we occasionally got shots at the devils with our front guns as they zoomed up from beneath us we didn't get any of them either They shot us to pieces though My tail was chewed up the elevator trim tab being shot completely away I wound up my flying holding the stick with both hands to keep the nose down That's a very difficult job when you have to do it for a long time "Those Japs put a 20 mm shell into my right wing fuel tank It made a hole as big as tactic sunk" made a run oil me Heck however saw the Jap and made a dire on him- This scared him away and then we joined up After we got together no Japarese planes bothered us -- 15 A 3 t Lemon Juice Recipe - -- I-- - :: |