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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<i to the monotony ships on the convoy had change«!,
convoys of this war. The water was of ship travel. To most of the boys but it did not take long to get
calm but the food was lousy. The on board the trip was uneventful. back into position. The fog bouys
At ARBITMAN’8
chow line was worse and if pos- We knew we were to land in North were pulled in and everything went
sible the mess hall could have spot- Africa, but we didn’t know- wnere along as scheduled.
ted both of them cards and spade, We read all of the little books on
NOW SHOWING A
I had always heard of Mussoli
and still been the hottest and dir the country people and their ci£-
ni’s private lake being referred to
FULL LINE OF LADIES’ AND GENTS’ APPAREL
tiest place I have ever been in up toms. It looks as though we were
as blue, but I had thought it was
CREDIT TO ALL
until then. Sea sickness was just going to find the Arabs and North
just a figure of speech. It is blue
a w-ord we had heard some one African French a tough bunch of
1007-1011 S. W. WASHINGTON ST.
an«l no mistake. So blue in fact that
say until we came out of the mess people. We were to find out later
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not so <leep. Smooth as glass. Why,
the first time. Then the w-ord and that those books didn’t mean ail
looking at it made you think of
the Sea it was named after it hit they had to say. If we had lived
you like a bolt of lightning. Most them to the letter we would have
«
I
of the boys gave up but it was my been bigger suckers than we were.
misfortune to be one of those who
To get back to the crossing I’ll
didn’t. As a result I was miserable say, we, those who saw- the incident
for two days. It didn’t take us long had a little scare. One morning
to get our sea legs after that. In about 10 o’clock we heard a few
a couple of days you would have guns going off very rapidly. At
first it didn’t make an impression
on us because this was the usual
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time for target practice, but this
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ed
its head and dipped into the sea
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for
the last time.
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We heard from one of the gun
a*
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, crew- that four of the big undersea
taking dictation. Must have had; babies had been following us for a
experience in office routine, day or two. It was not until the
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were
worried for a while but
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ry. Small home, no children, no
we
soon
let
all
of
that
sort
of
thing
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