FOUR 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.
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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.
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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.
A number of Spanish diplo
mats and laborers were killed or
injured at Chambery by a
French mob who attacked their
train in the belief they were
members of the infamous Span
ish Blue Legion which fought
beside the Germans against Rus-
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sla. The Spaniards were being
repatriated from Germany.
SEA BONUS CUT
Washington, June 28 (U.R)
The Maritime War Emergency
board has ordered a 33 V4 per
cent reduction in bonuses paid
seamen in the Atlantic service
effective July 15, the National
Maritime union (CIO) disclosed
today.
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1 cup sieved cottage
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