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battleship saved her by destroying the
Jap battery.
That was just one incident. From
March 21 to April 10, while hunting
submarines in mine-infested waters, she
repeatedly drove off dive-bombers; res
cued 17 survivors of another ship,
fought a fire raging in one of our
LSTs and knocked down an enemy
plane seconds before it could dump a
bomb on her decks.
A t that time she was operating, just
218 miles east of the Jap-held China
coast.
Many of her crew members were
on duty 16 to 20 hours a day during
the crucial stretch, during which the
ship fired 12 5 rounds of- main battery
shells, 3,700 rounds through secondary
batteries and 72 anti-submarine projec
tiles.
Midshipman Donald E. Hughes,
USNR, is half way through Midship
man’s school at Columbia University.
He was on a destroyer in the South
Pacific for 14 months as soundman.
After getting into the V-12, he attend
ed Willamette University for eight
months and University of Washington
for eight months before going to Mid
shipman’s School in New York.
Donald worked as a rock checker
and later was assistant man on a survey
party.
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Lt. Col. G. C. Hester wrote to Mr.
S. H. Probert on May 9, 1945 from
somewhere on the Pacific. The Colonel
said the boat had a 4th dimension move
ment and he thought the Navy did it
on purpose, as after a few weeks of
those ups and downs the men were will
ing to fight the devil himself in order
to get their feet On solid ground again.
Capt. Malcolm G. Smith, United
States Air Force, recently reported on
conditions in the Philippines. A great
number of the buildings in Manila have
been destroyed and it will require sev
eral years to rebuild the city. Male said
the weather was hot and sticky but
after' a year and a half in Arizona he
can take it. The boys in the squadron
are all very anxious to finish the Japs
and come home but they know that it
will take several months to complete
the job.
Lt. Henry Jullum, USN, after three
years in the Hawaiian Islands is now
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