i P * f* 6 N- n PORTLAND INQUIRER thought we were Old Salts, well our The subs passed away as silently yuchting and all that sort of thing talk would have given you the im­ as they appeared. Now we began Say, if I had a million I think 1 pression, but we were still green to wonder when we would see the would try some of that stuff my­ self. Well all that looks well tloes so how did we know that the sea “ Rock.” w’ould get rougher as we moved On our ninth day out rumor had not mean that it is that way. Some By S/Sgt. ALBERT DUNN, farther out into it’s vastness. it that we would pass the Rock at of the fellows claim they saw u Somewhere in Italy. The ship on which we were sail­ 12 o’clock that night. We stayed up shark or two, but me, 1 did not see Portland members of the Delta ing was an old timer. It had been late that night, we had come this anything larger than a few schools Sigma Thetu Sorority have devised Some time ago in one of our made to haul troops in the last far so you know we didn’t care to of Porpoieses. They were having a a plan to help uny girl attending a issues we printed a story sent to days of War 1. After the Armistice miss the sight of Gibraltar. We fine time racing aheud of the ship. college who is in need of a loan. us by Corporal Alfred Dunn con­ was signed she had been pressed didn’t see it that night, no, all we Again everything looked as inno­ cerning his experiences just before into the West lmlies 8ervice; When saw was the same grey Atlantic cent as u child that had been in his ! As a civic enterprise, it is unusual leaving for overseas. He called that Germany had declared war on that hud been beating relentlessly mother’s cookie jar. It wuh like that for Portland, and as an incentive for continuing one’s studies, the story, “ Port of Embarkation.” Due France and England, she began to against the sides of our boat. The for two days more. plan would do credit to uny locali­ to delay in the mails and getting carry the precious food supplies same sea that had upset our stom­ We have passed----------------a »lay his writings pass the censors, we ^ a t French and English needed achs and spoiled our sleep. For two ago. At noon we would pass--------- ty. Just how the plun is to be put have not had another story from so badly. Well, as you know, France more days the rumor and the sea Here we lost about half of our into operation we arp not in posi­ Cpl. Dunn until this issue. Corporal capitulated in 11)40 so England had keep at us. The rumor became less convoy. They steamed into port tion to say. But the first step to­ Dunn is a Portlander, lived at 236 carry on alone. Then Russia was a rumor as the »lays passed. The while we picket! up two Airplune ward acquiring the necessary funds N. Page Street before going into chucked into this mess that was to sea became less a sea and more of carriers and moved on toward the is by wuy of a Holiduy Dunce to the service. We are proud to be the ¡nvolve all of us. The ex-luxury a boiling pot as it grew rougher most heavily fortified spot in the be given by the Deltus on Decem­ medium through which he is reach­ liner began to make the death rim. and rougher. Then almost as sud­ world at that time. Needness to say ber 4. This is the first project of ing the people who knew him b^re You know Murmansk and the long denly as it had begun, the ocean that it was also the most heavily its kind to 1 m ; attempted by the Del- Four o’clock that j tas, the success of which will de­ and to give a soldiers impression hot route to the Russian arctic- became calm off on the distant bombed spot. evening we were told once more pend largely on the support given of some phases of Army life. ports. She had given as good as she horizon we could see a dark haze. all of the emergency signals. At them by the public in general We hope later to have more of took She had two of the W olf pack Instinct more than anything else Again the opportunity presents his writings to present for our to her credit as well as four of the told us that this was land. We 4:30 w-e had a practice alert. Eve- readers’ benefit.— The Editor. rything rolled along smoothly until ; itself for the Negroes of this area Luftwaffe. On the other side of the knew at that moment that land and 7:30, then w-e got it, our first air ( to help some worthy student to ledger she had one collision with the Rock were not far away. The The band had finished playing a fellow steamer. So she was well sky began to get bluer and if pos­ raid prepare himself for a higher plane. “ There’s something about a soldier up on the heels of the big Rat Hit­ sible the sea rid itself of all her The opportunity first presented it­ When the gun on the fore deck that is fine, fine, fine.” Only to ler. She was well armed and her w-rinkles — a hush over the ship. went o ff I thought a bomb had hit self in the suggestion of 'The Cri­ break out with our favorite torch, speed was surpassed by that of our The boys lined the railing of the the ship. GIs were running every terion Scholarship. This plan is dif­ ‘Don’t Cry, Baby.” That is all we escorts ar.d a couple of the new ship and waited. Then as a picture direction under the moon, man oh! ferent in that many girls may bo could say to any of them. Don’t troop carriers in the convoy. Her being unveiled the haze lifted and man, if you think they were mov- helped and in the case of the cry, baby. For sure enough, Daddy captain was at one time an officer before us loomed the legendaiy ! ¡ng then you should have seen scholarship fund, only one could was off to the seven seas. Well, at in the Danish navy He was to take Rock. them w-hen all of the guns in the benefit. least an ocean and a prayer. command in the event that some­ convoy began to bark. I saw a guy To members of other Sororities It did not have the shape that As we marched up the gang thing was to happen to our escort try to crawl into a crack on deck, i and Fraternities who are new­ plank a hush seemed to settle over All in all she was not a bad ship. one sees in pictures, but we had Some guys who had not prayed comers in the community, wo sug­ learned long ago that the real the entire ship. It was as if the She had been to sea too long. since they were kids were doing u gest that you identify yourself to thing is never like the pictures or world had stopped breathing for My outfit was to sleep on the fine job of asking tne I»rd to for- members of the Deltas. This can just an instance. In that instant bottom neck of the ship. The only the tales told about it. We were give them. There was no need to done by phoning the offices of we began to realize a little of what time most of us saw our bunks was disappointed because w-e were not tell any one to put out lights or the Inquirer or by lett-r. We will it was all about. The ocean we were when we had time or a place to close enough to see Xhe big guns shield cigarettes. If ^-ou spoke too y)a(]iy forward your name to this about to cross had a temperature shave, wash up and those other mounted on her face or the landing loud somebody was ready to cut kroup of civic minded voung ladies. of tw-o hundred and forty degrees things that are to be done to stay strips from which the planes that your throat. Guns of every typeij________________ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ by any standard. Yes, the Nazi clean. All of us could not have been took part in the attack on North were barking like angry dogs at the ghost town of-,----------- , every- took off. Well, at least we SUBS were still on the loose. All able to sleep there at one time. So . Africa . , ,, , the heels of Hitler’s flying hoard, thing was like taking a stroll thru ^ of the big brave talk that some half of us spent twelve hours be­ had seen the Rock. Slowly the huge | j Even though we threw everything the Bark at home. We pulled into black hunk of stone disappeared, as of the boys had been doing was low deck while the other half stay­ but water at them we suffered a the harbor of what was left of it finished for this moment at least. ed above. At that, most of us sleep suddenly as it came in to view it little damage. I saw an axies tor­ the following evening just after Some one sighed and all of the hub on deck when it was possible. It vanished A fog fell over the con­ pedo take the bow o f an escort durk. So at last we were again on dub of embarcation fell upon us rained a couple of nights but it voy. We were passing from the At­ boat awa> in a flash of flame. good old terra firma. Boy, did it once more. After we had dropped didn’t last long so none of the boys lantic into the Blue Mediterranean Eleven Gobs lost their lives in that feel good! I almost kissed it from our packs on deck and struggled suffered from the wetting they Sea. . { riff. The Nazi boys lost two fight- sheer joy. I was to learn to dislike into our life belts one of the boys took. We were used to getting wet. The fog was real, it was one ers and a bomber that night. And ; this same ground a few nights la- brought out a pair of dice and we We had slept in the rain for a of those things cooked up by Chem- I was christened a soldier that ter, but that’s another tale. Tonight were once again a big bunch of month before we went to P. O. E. ical Warfare to fool the enemy. It night Now I shall have something I could sleep without the lapping GIs. The only thing that bothered us only lasted an hour, but in that to tell my kids before they march waves ,,f an«l the rumble of en­ We slipped out of the harbor so was the shots we had to take. I brief span of time we were as alone off to war. gines to break into my slumbers. fast that we almost missed the La­ took about four of the same type as a couple of people on an out of From then until we lan«le«l at North Africa had me for her own. dy with the torch in her hand. We because somebody forgot to keep the w-ay island in the Pacific. At didn’t know where we were going, the records straight. last we were back in the sun once but we did know that we were a After the first two days at sea more. The positions of some of the parti of one of the largest single we became use