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THEY WERE W.N.U.FEATURES . 'HI STOKY eo FAB: T%* rtory «• idt part bi tko »atU« tor Ike PWMPHm U Mil t*M by four of tho Svo ftml iBMn who arc all (kit to Ml M vftotor IttiHt awt Sq«a«raa J. ttoj :%n LM. John Mketey (m» Ueatea- ••t CMMHIIW), HPatfni -JUrat. It. ». KoUjr, *"!•« Bastfaa UttM} Akort aai Oaarf* Ip. Cm Jr. MaaBa kaa. taBaa, awl aw Swal teaa at Cavtto to i«m. Uaat vplaBy tea teaa to a kaapital aa Carragt* ^iar, tot tea taaOy vmaaM Ma Mar 'im idun fcta. Ha tea raaa oat aa {fatral. Ttey ten brakes ap a Jay ' x*--***> party aa* te*« aaw caaaa >lia|iit a laatfac tana wMck tea WmiiiIhiI altar a heavy harrag*. ?> / v; CHAPTER Vn •y'-""She was empty except tor three ' laps--must have discharged her tnding party and been headed ime. One was dead, two were Wounded, and one of these two was !_jji Jap officer. : "Bulkeley had his 45 in his hand * %hen he jumped aboard, and immediately this Jap officer went to . pis knees and began, to call, 'Me ! surrender!--Me surrender!' " "You never know when you're go- Sg to run into something," said ulkeley. "A couple of nights later, I was riding the 41 boat on toutine patrol off the west coast of Bataan. When we began to get near to Biniptican Point, the entrance to Ckibic, we cut it down to one enpine, to make the least possible . -noise. Just before ten o'clock, I rtted a Jap ship which seemed to lying to, near shore. We called general quarters and began sneaking up on her--still using only one - engine until we got within about twenty-five hundred yards. Then we . pave everything the, gun and roared Kin--but almost into a trap. Because Jhe Japs had prepared a little wel- Eie for us, and this ship was mingly the bait to a trap--they 1 floating entanglements and firires in the water which might foul • §>ur propellers and leave us a dead farget for their batteries. We saw them just in time, and now we saw they were trying to unbait the trap because that big ship was showing fc wake, trying to get under way. < "At a thousand yards we fired our first torpedo, and it had hardly hit $he water before the Jap ship opened . iip on us with a pom-pom. They'd T^een playing possum, waiting for "lis. But what the hell--we wanted to be sure we'd stolen the bait from ^the trap, so we went right on in, ahead of our own torpedo, and let her have another at four hundred yards. Then I gave hard rudder ;^nd as we turned abeam of her, we jsprayed her decks with the 50's, > .and every man on board picked up a rifle and began pumping at her-- |just for the hell of it--and the Japs 'were dishing it right back, but not Ifor many seconds. Because all of sudden--Bam! It was our first torpedo striking home, and pieces of ^wreckage fell in the water all around us. The explosion gave us our first clear look at her. She was--or had jbeen until then--a modern, streamlined 0,000-ton auxiliary aircraft car- Tier. "Early in February they started -^sending submarines up from Aus- <tralia, and our boats would always :meet them outside the mine fields J and bring them in--Bulkeley getting aboard to ride as pilot. The subs ^"had news. They said America was 'building a big Australian base--that supplies were rolling down there. The submarine Trout would bring -- in ammunition for army's 3-inch : guns on Bataan and take out gold ! which had been brought over to Corregidor from Manila before it fell. > The unloading, of course, would all be at night, and then Bulkeley would . take them out and show them deep water, where they could submerge and hide from Jap bombers during the day. Quezon went out on one submarine to Cebu, and a week later High Commissioner Sayre left on a submarine. "Of our original six boats, two had already been lost, DeLong's over Subic Bay, and the S3 boat . while I was in the hospital--she'd been going full speed ahead investigating what looked at night like the -- .feather of a Japanese submarine's periscope, only it turned out to be a wave breaking over a little submerged and uncharted coral real" "We came dose to losing the 33 boat about that time," said Bulkeley. "DeLcpg and I were riding her aight ©Ft together with braces and wires, and running on only two engines. But pretty soon we sighted a ship deadahead about three miles away. I was maneuvering to put her in the path of the moonlight on the water so I could make out what she was. But now she seemed to put on speed, heading up in the direction of Subic Bay--maybe, if she had seen us, to get under the protection of the Jap shore batteries there. "Why had* die been firing near Bagac Bay? We learned that later. She was a 7,000-tftn Jap cruiser covering a Jap landing party with her guns. We didn't know we'd broken up this party at the time. Following her, we seemed to be gaining because she had apparently slowed down, maybe thinking she had lost us. We were closing on her fast now, when suddenly a huge big searchlight came on, holding us directly in its beam, and a few seconds later two 6-inch shells came screaming over, landing just ahead of us with a terrific explosion and waterspout. Her searchlight was blinding us and we could only head directly into it, firing the starboard torpedo at that light at about four thousand yards' range. There was "Immediately this went to his knees." officer night of February 8, patrolling up the west coast of Bataan as usual. A little before nine o'clock we saw gun blasts on up shettt of us Id the neighborhood of Bagae Bay, so we put on what speed w* could to find out who was shooting at what. Incidentally, the speed wasn't much. Because the S2 boat had had an explosion while they were cleaning that .gaboteur's wax out of her strainess tnd tacks, so that now she was held another flash ofv«-inc#t guns from the cruiser, and this salvo dropped much closer to us--hardly two hundred yards ahead. A third two-gun salvo landed just astern of us, and then we let her have the port torpedo, figuring the range at a little over three thousand yards. "Now we were empty, and the problem was to dodge that blinding searchlight. Before we veered off to the east, we tried to douse it with spray of 50-caliber bullets, but they did no good. We could hardly see where our tracers went for the glare. We could see now she was chasing us, firing salvoes in pairs from her four 8-inch guns, wh^n suddenly there was a dull boom, and we could see debris and wreckage sailing up through that searchlight';, beam. There was a pause in her firing-- no doubt about it, one of our torpedoes had struck horn?, pn.oably the second one. We knew sh * was crippled because she had slowed down--that light which as trying to hold us in its glare v., getting farther and farther away, and about 10:30 we lost it by making a hard turn to the right. Presently it went out. It came on again once or twice on the horizon, feeling for us over the waves, but never found us. "The next day the army told us we'd broken up a 7,000-ton cruiser's landing party on Bataan near the village of Moron, which was then in no-man's land, and said their planes reported the Japs had had to beach her seventy-five miles up the coast. Still later the planes reported the Japs were breaking her up for scrap. But we brought the 32 boat back safe to the base at Sisiman Cove. Our headquarters there was a reformed goat slaughter-house, about one hundred ,f«ft loqg and thirty feet wide, with a concrete floor. We'd scrubbed ii out with creosote. It still smelled fpme, but was habitable. We'daleo acquired p tender-- tn old harbdr tug called the Trabajador--and put her In charge of Defionf, who'd lost his ship." "Then we all sat around envying him," Said Kelly, "because here he was, living like an admiral--a cabin, a wardroonlHt Seal galley (net Just a hot plate, which was all we had on the MTB's), and even a mess boy who could bake pie. It was big-ship life, and Bulkeley and I used to find some excuse to go every night and eat his •dessert and drink coffee. DeLonig liked It so much he later decided to stay on~ Bataan rather than leave with the rest of us. "Our plan for unking a sun for China when our gas was almost gone still stood, and Bulkeley had\ got hold of some landing-<force gear which we knew might be useful on the Chinese coast if we missed connections with our Chungking friends and had to fight our way through the Japs. So we began drilling our men in landing-force procedure. "This got them very curious. They knew our gas was running out, and we had almost no more torpedoes except the ones which were in the boats. So we told them we were thinking of going south to join the Moros ii Bataan fell, and it satisfied them for a while. We let only two other persons in on the secret-- Clark Lee and Nat Floyd, newspaper correspondents who had been authorized by the Admiral to make the trip with us. "The food situation was getting tough. Our breakfast was always hot cakes made without eggs-just flour, water, and baking powder-- and the syrup was sugar and water. We hadn't seen butter since the war started. Then for dinner, it was always canned salmon and rice, and you don't know tired you can get of canned salmon until you eat it regularly for a few moiiths. We welcomed any change." "The one high spot in our diet was the Canopus," sai Kelly. "She was an old sub tender, so slow she'd been abandoned, but she had a fine machine shop. She was tied up at the dock and already had been hit twice by bombs, so they worked her at night and abandoned her by day. But among her stores were barrels and barrels of ice-cream mix and a freezer. And her skipper would let anyone in the navy who came aboard eat all the ice cream he wanted as long as those barrels lasted-- they held out until the week we left. "But what we wanted most of all was fresh meat and vegetables, and along about the second week in February the first blockade-runner arrived . We piloted her in at nightrendezvous twenty-five miles out-- and as daylight came, our mouths watered as we saw her cargo, strings of bananas piled high on her decks, and below, fresh meat and fruit for Corregidor. That afternoon I went over to see Peggy, and they were all busy slicing steaks and candling eggs. By yelling, screaming, and haggling, I got enough fresh meat to serve our crews two meals that week. She was a welcome little ship, that blockade-runner--made two more trips before the Japs sank her. "But because of Peggy, my diet was a little better than the others. Since she was oh Corregidor, she was entitled, under their rationing system, to buy one item per day from the canteen--a package of gum, a candy bar maybe, from the little supply they had left. "But Peggy pretended she never cared for them, and every time I; came to see her, she'd slip me a pocketful. She bought and saved them every day--just something to nibble while I was out on patrol, she explained. "I began to feel funny about that break-through to China we were planning. Of course the Admiral had ordered it, and of course it was the way we could be most useful. But here were all these brave people on Bataan and the Rock, Peggy among them, realizing more clearly every day that they would never get out. Doomed, but bracing themselves to look fate in the face as it drew nearer, knowing that they were expendable like ammunition, and that it was part of the war plan that they should sell themselves as dearly as possible before they were killed or captured by the Japs. But a handful of us secretly knew that we, and only we among these many brave thousands, would see home again, and soon. "And the more I liked Peggy--she was a swell |ud--the guiltier I felt. Furthermore, I knew if we ever left, it would have to be soon. Gas was •getting dangerously low -- barely enet)fh to make the run for China. " so was our torpedo fuppiy. We d have tolnwi wp* eyery tube " yt were tP throw effective Esh. On Sunday evening they visited Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Grain and soil at their home near McHenry. Mrs.; Ed Karls and sister-in-law called on Mrs. George Sanders Saturday evening. Mike Wagner of Chicago spent Sunday and Monday with his children in the home" Of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wagner. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Freund and children spent Sunday evening with his mother, Mrs. M. J. Freund, in McHenry. The Community Club held its regular meeting in St. Peter's Parish hall Monday night. Meeting was called to •«i"der and after business matters were settled, a social evening at oards was enjoyed. Refreshments were served. Aanaal School Play The pupi|s of St. Peter's school will present their annual schol play, in which all grades participate, on Sunday evening. May 2 at 8 o'clock, in the Parish hall. Following is the program they have worked hard to prepare for your entertainment. Program "Uncle Sam's Drummers"--'Boys Primary Grades. "Working for Uncle Sam"--Intermediate Grades. "Her Blessed Boy"--Comedy in three acts--Grammar Grades. - ; v, • "I'm a Man"--Primary Grades. > "Belling the Cat"--Playlet,. Military Dance--Patricia and l*Wrence Fleming. Midget Show--Intermediate Grades. Patriotic Tableau--Chorus. Solo--Paul May. . . . "Her Blessed Bey'" », • Characters Mrs. Tingle, mother--Luelka Hanferd. Aunt Virginia, always shocked at modern manners--Georgia May. Aunt Faith, spy at sixty-nine--Mary Ann Brell. Helen • Tingle, fond of dress--Hilary Alderman. Edith Tingle, with very delicate appetite-- Elaine Smith. Betty Radway, neighbor girl, always borrowing--Mary Ann Klaus. Eileen Malone, Irish maid, superstitious-- Patricia Fleming. Mrs. Malone, mother of Eileen and Dennis--Patricia Grischeau. Tom Tingle, oldest boy--Bryant Seymour. Charles Tingle, aged 10, always fighting-- Theodore Busch. Howard Tingle, aged 11 -- Stephen Stanfel. Dennis Malone, "borrowed" toother of Eileen--Jimmy Lennon. Ted Worthington, "The Blessed Boy" --James May. Order your Rubber Stamps at The Plaindealer. m VOLO am (By Mrs. Lloyd Fisher) Mr. and Mrs. Frank St. George spent Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Valenta in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Grabbe of Ivanhoe called atf the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Wirtz Tuesday. Mrs. Walter Vasey and family were Elgin callers Thursday. Clifford Peterson spent Easter Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Peterson in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Hanke of Evanston were Monday visiters at tjie home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank St George. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wiser received Easter greetings on Easter Monday from their daughter, Lt. Carmel Wiser, Maynard, A. N. C., and their son, Pfc. Edward Wiser. They stated in their letter that they were visiting each other that day, Sunday, April 18. And they are only fifteen miles from each other and are both fine and are located in the south Pacific area. Mrs. Frank King spent Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Earl Hironimus in Wauconda. Mr. and Mrs- Walter Vasey and family were Woodstock callers Friday. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Ollendorf and family were Wednesday evening visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher. Mr. and Mrs. James Valenta of Chicago spent Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank St. George. Tlie Friendly Neighbors society of the Volo Community Bible church will meet at the home of Mrs. Frank King Wednesday, May 5. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Parson, Jr., and son, Donald, Mrs. Harry Parson, Sr., and daughter of Chicago spent Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Bacon. Mr. Parson, Sr., returned to his home with them after spending several days wih his daughter, Mrs. Glenn Bacon. Harry Case, Richard Allen, Buddy Thennes, Warren Pankonin, Robert Allen and Richard Fisher accompanied James Davis to Urbana Thursday, where they attended the fifteenth annual convention of the Illinois Association of Future Farmers of America. Warren Pankonin and Richard Fisher received their "State Farmers" degree at this convention. Richard Fisher was elected vice-president of section three. Section three comprises twenty high schools. Robert Allen received the trophy in the 100- yard swimming contest. Richard Allen >4* rn: received the trophy in .the fifty-yard Swimming contest Congratulations, boys. Need Rubber Stamps! Order at Hie Plilndealer. Although the University of £••» fornia has turned out several tenais stars, incliidinf Helen wills Moodtf and Helen Jacobs, it his only tennis courts. Harvard has 100. pmpi • ~ - < f V* -1' ^Starting lby 1st* Th* -mk: & vi ^ McHenry Barber Shops •>W*: will be cloeed every THURSDAY AFTERNOOV p r-l" f mEX DALE*, PETE OLSEN "" IRVEN SCHMITTV via - The Rolaine Grill At WONDER LAKE Opens for the Season' SATURDAY, MAY %«- > Thereafter open daily at 4 p. m., exoept Mondays ' • Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays ait 12 Upon STEAKS .. . CHICKENS . .. CHOP1 Setved for your convenienoK Come and see WALLY AND ftione--Wonder Lake 223 ml-- »i « « i soys: 0F T0»f «oo SQUADRON • "Te Hwe beyi ehewll; go undying gf of #vwfy mn^ wmsmI', ,' and diM wHhin Dm bwiidtrhi of HM United States of Am«riag If tWr daring Ipyohy to Mm mum, that wiH go dawn In khtwy M MM MM •vfatonding tpla «f W*rld W«r tl. "F*w of in can ritualize Mm HcwgMi character and cowraga iMadad and ^displarad FCY Mm mmnban of T»rp«do Squadron t In watt**** help d*f|r«ir a vidowt (y "Lot ovory Awericon--"; awn, woman and ckiMr aa Mm homo front try la kit IwmUo way to V^Vil InO 9^1 IIS 0VSC kapo to approximate Andso ST*1 weight sgafcst Jap .tfdMtog on the China coast, and in tftSifeifto what we would need for this,' we had only a few torpedoes left, enough for one good fight--and that was to come sooner than we knew." (TO BE CONTINUED) SPRING GROVE Georgia and Donna, and Mrs. Fred May spent Friday afternoon in Waukegan. Sunday visitors in the William Brits home were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Britz (By Mrs. iCh^rleg Freund) a„nIIdtl fitatImIWilijyr of RXWoVcIkV Island, Mr. ,a„nda M*- May of McHenry Mrs. Harry Britz and Norman Britz of were callers in' the Paul Weber home j Rockford, Mrs. Paul Lewis and son, Tuesday evening. -- ~ -- " Mrs. Walter Smith and son, Ronnie, of Johnsburg visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Freund Wednesday. Frank May, Jr., a student at the a- University of Illinois, enjoyed Easter A at his home here, jr- Yvonne Straub of Chicago spent • k * ' tiie pest week with her grandomther, Mrs. Bertha Esh. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Jung of Ring- « wood were visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Math Nimsgern on Wednreday. On Friday they were visited % Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nelson and isgant son of Chicago. Frank Sanders has returned having spent the past two weeks *c|k* pity. Mm. George May, daughters, 'vS' :W Tommy, of Fox Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Klein and daughters of Johnsburg and the Albert Britz family. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kattner and son, Billy, visited in the John Weber home in Fox Lake on Sunday. , Mrs. Henry Adams has been ill at her home for several weeks. On Sunday she entered St. Therese hospital in Waukegan fpr medical treatment. Miss Regina Kattner of Prophetstown spent the past week with her mother, Mrs. John lut£tner. Mr. and Mrs. Walter TBrown visited home folks in Iowa over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sanders, daughter, Hazel, and Mrs. George Sanders and children visited in Woodstock Saturday evening. Mrs. Roy Nelson and Mrs. Ed Karls of Chicago spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ober in Crystal Lake. Guests in the Albert Britz home on Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Straub and daughters and Paul Straub and son, Paul, Jr., of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Fout entertained out-of-town guests at their home on Sunday. Mrs. Paul Lewis and Miss Shirley Britz of Fox Lake called on Mrs. Charles Freund Saturday afternoon. The George A. May family were' Sunday visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Meyers. Mrs. George Sanders and children and Miss Hazel Sanders were visitors in the home of Mrs. Ina Gracey at Burtnap's Bridge on Sunday. Among those employed out-of-town who spent Easter Sunday with home folks were Misses Bernice Nimsgern, Lucille Freund of Chicago, Miss Lorraine May of Zion, Miss Lucille Hergott and Mrs. Jeanette Miller, Woodstock. > • Mr. and Mrs. Glendale Esh and family of Chicago spent Sunday and Monday with his mother, Mrs. Bertha JE very American knows the suicide saga of Torpedo Squadron 8. JHow't lost HI 15 planes and all butoneofits 30 men in a mission ';f|rhich helped produce our great victory at Midway. It was these jfoys who found the ^ap fleet. Who radioed its position. And Vithout th« necessary fighter and high altitude bomber support dove te the attack. 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