Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 28, 1945, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. Juns 28. 1945 Mitscher Flagship Is Made Inferno By Attack Of Two Japanese Suicide Bombers By Jamsi A. MacLean United Press Correspondent Seattle. June 28 (U.R) Two Japanese suicide planes on the morning ol may. u annosi con verted the U.S.S. Bunker Hill Into a flaming tomb off Okinawa for Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitcher, whose flagship she was. But the hard-hitting and hard-to-klll commander of task force 68 escaped without a scratch or blister. He escaped, and the Bunker Hill survived, but many members of Mitcher's staff and hundreds of the big ship's crew did not. After a six-hour ordeal of blasting bombs, exploding am munition, and blazing gasoline, the carrier counted 65t casual ties, including 373 killed, 19 missing, and 264 wounded. Bat thanks to her crew's hero ism and to a daring maneuver under enemy noses, the 27,500 ton Bunker Hill lived to join the Franklin, her Essex class sister, and the mighty Saratoga in the proud company of U. S. carriers which refused to sink. ' Planes Crash Decks Because she will fight again, the Bunker Hill's story may now be told. "Out of nowhere," as the survivors told it, came two suicide planes which crashed with their SOO-pound bombs in to the carrier's decks. Lives were snuffed out in a space of seconds a few feet from where the doughty, weather beaten, 58-year-old admiral was standing. According to Commodore Ar leigh A. ("31 Knots") Burke, his chief of staff, three officers and II men of Mitcher's staff were killed and 20 were wounded or overcome by smoke. Every man on the port side of the flag bridge outside the flag plot" where Mitcher stood was killed. But he survived to trans fer his flag to another craft and carry on. Thus far in this war, Mitcher has been bombed off two flag ships. The name of the other one may not be revealed. Being Repaired The Bunker Hill, her decks and island and gun galleries a shambles, K being repaired at the Puget Sound navy yard, Bremerton, Wash., where the Saratoga recently was made whole again. The Saratoga suffered greatly when seven enemy planes scored hits on her off Iwo Jima. But only the Franklin, under repair at the Brooklyn (N. Y.) navy yard, has taken more punish ment than the Bunker Hill and survived. Few U. S. naval craft of any kind have as fine a war record as the Bunker Hill. Since her arrival in the Pacific In the fall of 1943, she has sunk 162,000 tons of enemy shipping and shot down 475 Japanese planes. In addition she has probably sunk 253,975 tons of enemy vessels and damaged 454,075 tons. In 88 consecutive days and nights with task force 58 before she was hit, her planes had struck; at Iwo Jima, the inland sea, Kyushu, and Okinawa. From March 14 to the day her career was interrupted, the Bun ker Hill shot down 169 Japanese planes. In just two big days off Oki nawa her fighters downed 67 enemy aircraft, and in the same area her anti-aircraft guns blast ed 14 Japanese planes out of the y' Hell of Fire But In a space of 30 seconds on the morning of May 11, two Japanese suicide planes got through, catching 34 of the Bun ker Hill's craft ready to take off, and transformed the mighty ship into a hell of fire and explosions which riddled her decks and bulkheads and blasted her sides. Of the carrier's planes only 10 that were in the air survived. Seventy were reduced to molten puddles. Li the six hours that followed the two suicide hits, Mitcher and his surviving staff members were removed by breeches buoy to the destroyer English while the Bunker Hill's still-living offi cers and men braved death to fight fires, Jettison ammunition and gasoline, and rescue the wounded and trapped. So many erstwhile ordinary human beings were transformed into heroes that the ship's skip per, Capt. George A. Seitz of Coronado, Calif., has recom mended 280 of his crew for awards, including three navy crosses. Brave Men Die "There were so many acts of outstanding heroism," he said, "that it would be impossible to praise any one over another. And of the men who died at their posts to keep the boilers going and the pressure in the fire mains, he added: "They died as only brave men ca:i." Helping the Bunker Hill In her need were the cruiser Wilkes Barre and the destroyers Eng lish, Stembel, and Charles S. Sperry. The Wilkes Barre push ed her bow against the carrier's starboard quarter and kept her hoses aboard. So great a volume of water was pumped into the stricken craft that she began to list and seUle. The tons of water pour ing upon the seas of flaming gas oline and oil were forcing fire fighters back against the bulk head. Before leaving the ship, Mitch er tersely inquired about the or ganization of fire control. His only comment on what had hap pened to his flagship was, "It's too bad." That night the destroyer Eng lish, in honor of its distinguished guest, showed .motion pictures. They depicted the burning of the U.S.S. Franklin. GRID GREAT DIES Mlddlesboro, Ky June 28 (U.R) James B. "Red" Roberts, one of the gridiron greats of Centre college's famous praying colonels, died at Middlesboro hospital from burns received early today when fire broke out in his suite at the Cumberland hotel. HOW 00 T(Srv YOU LIKE Lj SkjS your TJm-J SANDWICHES? El '? (i I I LIKE 'EM to bring cut the best in every calad o 7 C3DBaB.- mellowtjcHii wood J'y sparkling clear ff J delightfully aromatic f jvfi I uniform In strength A'"jr"" 1 JfST) SUPPLY OF CMS Washington, June 28 (U.R) It will be at least three years before many millions of Ameri cans will be able to buy new cars, Col. J. Monroe Johnson, director of the office of defense transportation, said today. Johnson made the assertion in appealing to passenger car own ers to conserve their cars. Johnson said the 240,000 cars to be built this year will replace less than one per cent of the nations autos. WANNA BUY BUOY? San Francisco, June 28 (U.R) Wanna buy a buoy? The V. S. Maritime commission announced today that 17,000 new and used steel buoys of 175 and 300-gal-lon capacity recently declared surplus by the navy are for sale at $17 and $26, respectively. Un Mull Tribune Want Ad.. Spain Hits Back At French After Attack By Mob Paris, June 28 (U.R) A French foreign office source said todav that Spain has cancelled all imports, exports and transit licenses affecting trance in re nrtcnl for a French mob attack on Spaniards at Chambery 10 days ago. . . Spain also notified France that tha tirnfl wan "innnnnrtune" to attempt to open commercial ne gotiations, thJ informant saia. 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