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©WHITE THEY WERE W.N.U.FEATUMS STOUT >0 fAR: The «tor* «t ;?tfceir part in the battle for the Philippines it being told by four of the tve : ^nivtl officers who *re *11 that if left of . Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3. They - «re Lieut. John Bulkeley (now Lieuten- !' ]«nt Commander), squadron commander; Lieut. K. B. Kelly, second-iB-comm*ad; . «nd Ensigns Anthony Aher* and George 1 IK. Co* Jr. Manila hat fallen, and we Ihave lost onr naval base at Cavite. Lieut. "Kelly has told how he spent New Vear's Eve in the hospital on Corregidor, while Lieut. Bulkeley was discussing with the 'Admiral a plan of escape to Chin*. Lieat. Bulkeley is telling abont a night raid two »l the PT boats made against the Japs. Lieut. Bulkeley rode tn the M K:;; CHAPTER VI \ we separated, expecting to Itieet at dawn. It was ttte last 1/ • ; • ever saw of the 31 boat. But here s . what happened to our 34 boat in • Subic. First, remember it was dark- " ijer than hell, and the shore line was i;£$!peded with Jap field guns. None of had ventured in there since the *, v; Japs took over. We had got in just 'a little way when a Jap searchlight • * .spotted Us and blinked out a dot^ dash challenge, asking who tve $'ere. Since we didn't know the V«$ap code reply, naturally we didn't #nswer, but changed course, veering away. But the Japs were getting suspicious by now, and from over by Ilinin Point a single field piece opened up. None of it fell Dear us--maybe they were shooting at DeLong in the 31 boat. "When we were about abeam of Sueste light another light came on to challenge us--this time from a v ; (hip -- maybe that cruiser. We * changed course to go over and have ^~vi look, but she was small fry--not worth a torpedo--the hell with her we were headed for Binanga and the cruiser. "By ,one o'clock we were off the ; Borth entrance to Port Binanga, Where we were to meet DeLong in the 31 boat and go in together for the attack, and when he didn't show up, 1 began to be afraid something xnight have happened, yet I couldn't be sure. "But there was nothing to do but , go on in alone. To make the sneak, we cut the speed down to eight knots, skirted Chiquita Island, rounded Binanga Point, and entered the little bay on two engines at . idling speed. Everything was quiet, • no firing down here, and then we saw her ahead in the dark not five •hundred yards away. Creeping up on her, we had just readied two torpedoes when a searchlight came on and in dot-dash code she asked , who we were. "We answered, all right--with two torpedoes--but they had hardly been fired when I gave our boat hard rudder and started away. It isn't * safe for an MTB to stay i-»ar a cruiser. One torpedo hit horn* with a hell of a thud--we heard it over our shoulders. Looking back, we . saw. the red fire rising, and presently two more explosions which might have been her magazines.* "With three motors roaring, and us skipping around in that rough • water with everything wide-open, I guess we made considerable commo- _ tion. Anyway the Japanese radio in Tokyo, reporting the attack next day, said the Americans had a new secret weapon--a monster that roared, flapped its wings, and fired torpedoes in all directions. It was only us, of course, but we felt flattered. We got the hell out of there, and that was all there was to it." "Well," said Kelly, "MacArthur wouldn't quite agree. He gave you the D.S.C. for what you'd done." "But DeLong has the real story," insisted Bulkeley. "I pulled up outside the mine field off Corregidor to wait for him. Neither of us could go in until it got light, because otherwise the army on shore, hearing us in the dark out there, would think it was Japs and set oft the mine field. But when the sky got light and I saw my boat was alone, I realized DeLong was in trouble. And since he's now a prisoner of the Japanese--if he's alive--we'd I better tell his story for hirn. "After we parted company at the entrance to Subic Bay, he started around its northern rim as we'd planned. But just before midnight he developed engine trouble--the saboteur's wax had clogged his • strainers. He cleaned them and had , Just got under way when more trouble developed--the cooling system : went haywire. They stopped, and were drifting as they repaired it when there was an ominous grind- , ing sound under the boat--they were aground on a reef in Subic Bay. "They rocked the boat, and finaii ly started the engines to get themselves unstuck. But the noise now attracted the Japs, and a 1-inch gun on Ilinin Point opened up on them--splashes coming nearer and nearer. They worked frantically, finally burned out all reverse gears so that the engines were useless. DeLong gave orders to abandon ship. They wrapped mattresses in a tarpaulin to make a raft, and all got aboard but DeLong, who stayed to chop holes in the gas tanks and blow a hole in the boat!s bottom with a hand grenade before he jumped. That was the end of the 31. Then he couldn't find the raft in the darkness, and being afraid to call out, swam to the beach. "The raft had shoved off with all twelve aboard at three o'clock. - "He waited on the sands until dawn. Then, in the gray half-light, he picked up the tracks of nine men. He followed these until they led into a clump of bushes, where he found most of his crew. They -explained they had stayed with the raft until djawn was about to break. Fearing sunrise would expose them to the Japanese, they had decided to risk a swim to the beach, where they could hide. But Ensign Plant and two rnen, who couldn't swim very well, decided to stay. What became of them the nine didn't know, and no one knows for sure to this- day. "But the first thing DeLong did was to post lookouts, and all day they stayed in that clump, with an were back with.us at the next evening.' ian Cove "We answered, all right--with two torpedoes." eye on the Japa observation planes which flew over them in relays, watching a hot little skirmish between the Americans and the Japanese on the far shore of the bay. At one point the Japs were falling back, and there seemed to be a chance that they could make a run for it in daylight, rejoining the American lines. But never was it quite possible, and in the meantime they had spotted a couple of bancas, native boats, farther down the beach. "Two men who were sent out to investigate, crawling on their bellies through the grass, returned to report the bancas were in fair condition. So when the sun had set they crawled to them and started getting them in shape. For rowing they had two paddles, a couple of spades, and a board. They had to work fast and quietly, for the Japs were all around them--just as they were launching the bancas they heard Japanese voices not two hundred yards away. "But a heavy wind came up, and at nine o'clock at night, both boats capsized. They righted them, but the shovels and the board were lost, and they now had only one paddle for each banca. Yet with these they continued to fight the head wind until three in the morning, when they were so exhausted that they decided to try the shore. So DeLong landed on what he hoped was Napo Point. They picked their way through the barbed-wire entanglement on the beach, and then found themselves up against a steep e»fpr "They kept very quiet until dawn, not knowing whether daylight would find them surrounded by Americans or Japanese. But whan it became 4ight, the 4rft thing they saw was a FUliaino sentry. " 'Hey, Joe--got a cigarette and a match?' they called out And an hour later thqjr were telling their story to Captain Cockburn, in the Ninety-second American Infantry's field headquarters tent. The nina • "That afternoon Bulkeley came over to tell me the story of the engagement. When he was through, 'Kelly,' he said, 'we need you.' " 'Let's get ahold of that doctor,' I said, 'and you tell him that' "Two days later I took the 34 boat out on my first patrol from Corregidor up along Bataan |oward Subic Bay--Bulkeley, who as squadron commander rode all boats on patrol, of course was with me. It was a calm night--and chilly. Sweaters were comfortable over our khakis, although in the daytime we wore only shorts or trunks* "Everything was going well, in fact it was monotonous. But when we were about twenty-five miles up the coast, hell suddenly started popping. Our own batteries were shooting at us. Bulkeley explained to me that was the main excitement these days--to keep from being sunk by your own side--and calmly altered course to get out of their range, which we could tell by the light of their tracer bullets. " 'Half the time those dumb dastards don't know friend from foe,' he explained. "Five minutes later we saw a dim light, low in the water, and headed toward it. Was it a Jap landing barge, trying to get ashore behind General Wainwright's lines? Then it occurred to Us that it might be Ensign Plant and the two other men of DeLong's boat who had disappeared in Subic Bay. They might have stolen a boat and now be headed home--we couldn't take chances. So without firing we drew nearer, Watching the light. "Presently it began to blink--dots and dashes, all right, but no message that we could read. Bulkeley ordered general quarters as a precaution, and the men were crouching behind their machine guns. It was about twenty-five yards away now--a queer-shaped boat, low in the water--and suddenly its light went out. "Bulkeley stood up with the megaphone. 'Boat ahoy!' he called. He got a quick answer. Br-r-r-r-r-r-r! They opened on him with machine guns. It looked like a fire hose of tracer bullets headed for bur cockpit, and now they speeded up, trying to head for shore. But we were pouring the fire back at them. "Now we could see it was a Jap landing barge, packed with men. It had armor on the bow and the stern, and kept twisting and turning, trying to keep those thick steel plates pointed toward us. Of course our maneuver was to come in from the side, and let them have it where they couldn't take it. "All this had been going on for about thirty s&o6nds when I heard a cry of pain from behind. It was Ensijgi . Chandler. 'I've been hit,' he i said. A Jap bullet had gone through both of his ankles. We pulled him out of the cockpit and laid him down on the canopy, meanwhile circling the Japs and pouring the steel down into their vulnerable sides. We could soon see we were getting them. The barge sank lower and lower in the water and presently gurgled under, while we pulled off to lick our own wounds, give first aid to Chandler, and locate any other boats in the vicinity... Surely the Japs wouldn't attempt a landing with a single barge. - All we got, though, was more fire from our own shore guns-- a swarm of tracers and then 3-inchers began whistling over--one of them landing two hundred yards away. But we didn't mind. The army seemed to enjoy it, and it wasn't hurting us. We fooled around until almost dawn and were headed for home-- we couldn't have got Chandler through the mine fields to the hospital until sunrise anyway, when Bulkeley happened to glance back. Through the half-light he could see, bobbing in the swell, another low-lying fiat craft. Should we go back? You're damned right we should, the men said--to get even for Chandler by sinking some more. As we got closer, sure enough, it was another landing boat, this time apparently leaving the coast of Bataan, and we opened up on her with everything we had from four hundred yards away. "But their return fire wai curiously light and spasmodic. So we closed to about ten yards. Their fire had stopped, but their boat wouldn't. Our bullets would hit its armor and engines---you could see the tracers bounce off and ricochet one hundreds feet into the air, but •till it kept going. Suddenly a trao> er hit its fuel tanks--up they went in a blase, the motor itopped, and now the boat was only drifting. But even as we pulled those Jsps, nervy devils, gar* haff hard rudder and tried to ram (TO BE CONT1NVKD) StOClTM LAKE (By Mrs. ilarry Matthews) Harry Matthews and Otta Metzler of Lake Zurich attended a director's meeting of the Lake-Cook Farm Supply Co., held at the office at Des- Plaines, Monday. ' 1 Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren were dinner and supper guests Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lusk at Maple Park, A. D. Smith of Libertyville was a caller last Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews. T Mrs. Hugh O'Brien and daughter, Mrs. A1 Matzen, of Roseville were guests last Tuesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hansen. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Burkhart of Williams Park spen^~last Tuesday evening with relatives in Chicago: . Mrs. James Thomson and Mr. and Mrs. John Kunz of Williams Park were callers at Libertyville and Des- Plaines last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. F. Hulska of Chicago were luncheon guests last Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Burkhart at Williams Park. Mrs. Vincent Davlin fend Mrs. Joseph Klupar and children of Chicago were recent callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. EL Brooks. Mrs. James Thomson of Williams Park spent last Wednesday and Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harold Forenoss in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. A. Knockamus, Jr., and Mrs. A. Knockamus, Sr., and Mrs. S. Malone of Chicago were Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Burkhart at Williams Park. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Burkhart of Chicago spent Sunday at the home of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm., F. Burkhart, at Williams Park. Mrs. R. S. Bouland of Jacoby's subdivision was a caller at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mathews last Thursday RINGWOOD SCHOOL NEWS (By Johnny Neal and Joe Carty Frank, Susanne and Jean Muzzy visited their grandmothers at Marengo Sunday afternoon. Tommy Martin went fishing Sunday afternon. No luck. Muriel Butler spent Sunday evening with Carol Harrison. " LuAnne Bauer, Susanne Muzzy and Norma Carlson went fishing Sunday at Wonder Lake. Grade three have started their new reading books, "If I Were Going." Shirley Kirkpatrick visited her grandmother at Lake Geneva Sunday afternoon. Duane, Darlene and Audrey Andreas visited their grandparents at Algonquin Saturday and Sunday. The second grade scholars are reading in their new reading book, called 'Friendly Village." Billy Dewolf's brother was two years old on April 16. Louise Hunt had a birthday party Sunday afternoon. The seventh ahd eighth grade chilren from our school took an achievement test at McHenry last Friday morning. Mr. Andreas, their teacher, was well pleased with the results of this test. All of the children showed some fine improvements. VOLO (By Mrs. Lloyd Fisher) Mr. and Mrs. Ben True and family of Waukegan were Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank King. The Wauconda-Volo 4-H club held* a meeting at the Wauconda Township high school Monday evening. Mrs. Clinton Raven and family c&lled at the Dowell home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Capron, 111. " " Harold Grabbe of Crystal Lake spent the weekend here with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Vasey. Harry Parson, Sr., of Chicago spent a few days Here with his daughter, Mrs. Glenn Bacon. Mrs. Lloyd Fisher and daughters visited her mother, Mrs. Albert •Hafer, in Fremont township Saturday. Mrs. Frank King visited her daughter. Miss Miriam King, in Waukegan Friday. Mrs. Sarah Fisher spent the past week with her daughter, Mrs. Pearl Dowell. McCULLOM LAKE (By Marie McKim) I saw some pictures of Evelyn Olson in her WAVE uniform. She was always attractive, . In her navy blue uniform she looks stunning. Ted, her brother, is now a pilot in the air corps in Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Marie Burzinski spent Saturday in Chicagc. Oh Tuesday, Mrs. Sales entertained the Bunco club. At that time there was The junior class of the Wauconda also a shower given in honor of Mrs. high school sponsored a barn dance at j Burzinski. the Lloyd Fisher barn Friday evening. { On April 15, Mr. and Mrs. Rudin Mrs. Richard Cronin and Mrs. John j celebrated their thirty-third anniver- Engeln of McHenry were Tuesday vis- | gaj-y. Congratulations. itors at the home of Mrs. Frank King. T. R. Birkhead and daughter of Antioch were Sunday visitors at the home of Mrs. William Wirtz. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Vasey and family spent Sunday at the home of On April 13, Dave Reid celebrated^ his fifty-second birthday. I am told that the home of Mr. and Mrs. Burger, who lived here some time ago, has been sold recently. Ed Doran received a letter from - DANCE - NELL'S BALLROOM JOHNSBURG BRIDGE SATURDAY, APRIL 24iri DANCING EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT * MUSfC BY BARBARA HORICK'S ORCHESTRA Sgt. Langly Bennett from somewhere in North Africa. Also from his MB, Bob Doran, who is in Australia. Ed had one, Thursday, April 22. I understand that the Harry Lack family is going to join the permanent residents here in a short while. If anyone has any old newspapers they want to get rid of (not sell), Mr. McKim will pick them up. He has been requested to do this by Mr. Bridges, in Woodstock, who will maka arrangements to take them awayjr> The 'Bridewell'. A "bridewell" is a house of rectton for short term and offenders, in contrast to a or penitentiary. KOLOR BRITE ENAMELS Milct Lovely Kitchens Bring a Sample ef Your Kitchen Curtain With Yen/ We've a ,Cel|er To Ge With M 1 "•> The enamel you UN in your kit., •n color scheme should agree wit the color in the curtain--the she paper--or your breakfast dishe*. Kola* R>uU A guMin DUMa TUT SUMS MOIEttSMKS Each color has been oar* fully aelected for new style and beauty by color experts. Has a tough dur>. able lustre. Quality throughout. MARTIN-SENOUR KOLOR BRITE ENAMEL PADfT EXPERTS MICE 1C78 o John J. Vycital Hdwe. Green Street Phone 9841 Copfofo Etfafle Rickunbackwr soys; OF TORPID# SQUADRON • "To the** beys thowli • ge tfce undying feratHwdi of evwry man, wtftMN and child within the .. boundaries of the United Statw of Amortes for thoir daring accomplishments and loyalty to th* caw**, that will go down in , history as on* of the ; outstanding epics of World War II. "Few of us can visualize the strength ef character and courage. - needed and displayed by Hi* members of Torpedo Squadron t in their willingness to help destroy a vicious enemy when death _ faced them. "let every American-* •ton, woman and child-* on (he home front try in his humble way to oqual the efforts of these men, because none of us can ever hope to approximate their c v I. UNIFORM AIR RAID WARNING SIGNAL SYSTEM APPROVED Adoption of a uniform air raid warning signal system for Illinois has been approved by the 6th Service Command, Capt. William P. Waugh, chairman of the civil protection division, Illinois State Council of Defense, has reported to Gov. Green. The new regulations, he said, provide for uniform air raid signals designed to permit quicker blackout and mobilization, greater civilian protection, and a minimum of time loss and interference with essential war pro-1 duction and transportation. Principal change in the new system is the* addition of a preliminary ca% tion (Blue) period signaled by a two minute steady blast on whistles, sirens or other sound making devices. Short blasts on sound signals (Red) mean attack is imminent. All traffic is stopped and all establishments black out and remain blacked out unr til the (Blue) signal is heard again. Traffic then resumes but buildings and homes remain blacked out until the all clear is ordered. pie all clear signal, Capt. Waugh said, is left to the option of local citizens, defense corps commanders. It can take any form best suited to the community, such as turning on street lights, radio announcements, telephone communication or police sirens. If audible, the all clear must not resemble in any way the Blue or Red signals. Capt. Waugh urged every Illinois resident to familiarize himself with the nev( signals. Every individual should remember, , he sad, that there are two periods of caution, one before the actual raid and one after, just to make sure the raiders do not return. RATION GUIDE GASOLINE -- "A" book coqpohs number five good for four gallons each from March 22 to May 21. SUGAR -- Coupon number twelve good for five pounds. Must last through May 31. (Ration book one.) COFFEE--Stamp number 26, good for one pound, expires April 25. FOOD--Red "D" stamps good April 18. Red A, B, C, D stamps not good after April 30. Red "iE" stamps good April 25. Expiration date to be an-' nounced later. SHOES--Number. 17 staipp in war ration book numjber one good for one pair of shoes until June 15. NOTICE--It. is important you use your red A, B, C, D stamps on or before the deadline on April 30. Age of Parrels Occasionally parrots attain the age of 100 years or more, and commonly they live 40 years. At that age they begin to shed feathers, become weak and do not digest their food properly. Eight Sticks of Dynamite Cleaning house, Mrs. August Maguire of New York city decided to burn a pile of papers and an innocent- looking cigar bo*. En route to the furnace, the box fell to the floor. Out rolled eight sticks of dynamite. Eveiry American knowi the suicide saga of Torpedo Squadron 8. How it lost all 15 planes and all butoneofits 30 men in a mission Which helped produce our great victory st Midway. It was these boy* who found the Jap fleet. Who radioed its position. And Without the necessary fighter and hi$h altitude )x>mb^r fuppoct dove to the attack. ' This week the big 2nd War LoairDrive is on! Our country is not asking us to give or even risk oar lives. She simply wants us to tend her money. And this 13 billion dollars must be raised during April to assure more torpedo squadrons--more victories like Midway It's true we've done a good job so far. But this war is far from won. The Japs are building new airfields in Kiska on American soil. Submarines are sinking our supply ship* within sight of our own shores. It's a long way from Casablanca to Berlin, or Tokio. While you help your country you will help yourself. Your purchases of War Bonds help retard inflation. They are as safe a* your government. And when Victory has been won you will have saved the money ypu need for a new home, new car, neiiluniries. Ybu riiaysay, '^Rut I've beenbttying War Bqf)ds~ Paying highet taxes. Giving up conveniences." If you think you're doing all you can, recall the last words of Commander Waldron to Squadron 8: "Of course, we will strike regardless of fbe consequences." Unques« tionably answering this new call will mean more self-denial. Giving up more luxuries. Additional inconveniences. 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