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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1943)
PAGE' TWO ' HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON June 26, 1948 America Only Grace After (Continued From Page One) . be right In there. Except there was a llttlo matter when I an nounced that drinks were on the house. Then you heard and aw considerable French. The place was full of forces of all nations. The bar waa high and a half circle. Sort of a stage looking down on the customers. "Great Lite" "An engineer who had come down with us from England to Africa was telling me what a great life the sailors led. Wish ed he had it that soft. I saw him a few weeks later. He told me he had changed his mind While unloading ships one day he was watching a convoy pull' lug into port. Suddenly a tre mendous blue flame appeared where once had been a ship, . Three men were saved. Either a mine or .torpedo. These mines are terrific things. I ve seen torpedoes and lots of bombs hit on ships, but they never kick up the way a mine does. "I was standing watch one morning on the bridge as we were leaving port. One of the escort was about two miles away, right on our port beam. All was tranquil and smiles when, wham! The water rose as one great mass about six stories high, completely losing the escort vessel. ' The length and breadth of this mass -of water was what surprised me. The ship had hit the mine on her starboard quarter. We thought certainly she had been blown to pieces. But she came about, burning badly, and made for shore. Got her fires under control, only to blow up 20 minutes later. Got most of the crew off before it happened. Convoy to Russia "When we went to Russia the fighting was so heavy and for so many days we had become quite hardened to the tremend ous racket that goes with this sort of thing.. Had hundreds of depth charges going all the time. When you consider that hundreds of guns , were being fired and bombs were exploding all around you, you can under stand why it was not easy to hear the bombs when they came down. "There is too much to tell. I've been so many places I could write pages. I will say that I've seen enough war to last you and me and everybody our life time. It is the rottenest business I could ever imagine. In fact we never imagined it was or could be as rotten .as what we saw. First Attack "We said as much after our first attack on the way to Russia in the Arctic Forty-four torpedo planes, first attack, at tacked us with 88 torpedoes Just before the dive bombers came on us. All the time these aircraft attacks were going on, scores of subs were after us, some breaking through the de stroyer screen and coming up In the convoy. This explains why the destroyers continue night and day to weave in and out of the columns, dropping hundreds of depth charges. Mines were constantly laid by the Germans whose planes had us sighted 10 or 12 days from Russia. They had excellent team work between their subs and recon planes. Three or four of their recon planes would Loir Day ROY ROGERS ki "Sons of Pioneers" and "Arabian Nights" OiliJllliL'iilsD TOMORROW! Another ftlAVT ooul 2nd Big Star HItl Riotous Comedy IATURI II Jtomoin m Place, Says Convoy Duty circle us all day long, (some days would have IS to 18 hours of light,) just out of range of the outside destroyer screen's guns. "As you all know, torpedo planes attack about bridge-high. If I were to go into the air corps, I would quietly but firm ly refuse a torpedo plane. It's the worst assignment I've seen. We got 24 of them on this first attack. And they got some of us. Torpedo Planes "I remember one coming at us off our starboard bow. His cockpit was on fire, his en gines were burning. But the plane was gliding right at us. The pilot must have still been alive, or fallen' over his con trols, for the plane lurched sud denly away from us very close to the water and headed for a cruiser on our beam. Missed the cruiser and landed on the deck of a cargo ship. The plane still had its torpedoes. In about three minutes there was exact ly nothing except a tremendous wide column of smoke rolling up through the low gray clouds. The next ship in line came along and passed. Not a scrap of wreckage showed itself on the sea. That ship had the same type of cargo we were carrying. Among other items, 3000 tons of TNT. We lost all, appetite for food. Some were almost actively ill. "A few minutes later a tor pedo plane came too close to a ship when he dropped his tor pedoes at her. He was not able to bank away fast enough. Nor did he reckon with the type of cargo the ship was carrying. High test gasoline. A great mass of yellow flame, almost no smoke, you could see balls of red in that mess. And then no ship. You can't be brave when you see this stuff. No man can honestly say he isn't frightened clean out of his boots. My legs shook. Convoy in Port "The first attack was so tough that it left us seasoned men. That sounds little far-fetched. I know, but we1 had many at tacks after that and were able to keep fine control of ourselves and our fire, Jerry kept after us while we were in port. Hitler sent a mes sage to the world that another Anglo-American convoy had been wiped out. And he ex plained how.1 ' He was at the Russian front when he sent this via radio. He called it the "Bat- I tie f the-.Attantic." ; We had. him on our ships' radio. The amusing thing about the broad cast was that all the while, his bombers were overhead, trying to finish us off. The allies used this convoy for propaganda purposes to advertise what we were doing oh the lease-lend to Russia. Sise Told 'Two months later they an- fnr a - rm " i &:iri nounred our size. The British said that we had 79 warships. half were out of sight waiting for the German fleet to attack us, we had a carrier with part of our convoy and 40 merchant men. About 12 MM ships were lost. "About 10 days after we were in port, Anthony Eden got on the air and announced to the world that the largest consign ment of ammunition ever ship ped anywhere (this was before the African Invasion) had arriv ed in Russia. Jerry came over that night to confirm! "Well, enough of war talk. Most of all I've missed the old friends. e "Got a letter of commenda tion and recommend for Bos'n 2nd. Easy glory these days. Nuts, give me peace. Here's away Harry." (Ed. Note: Harry Grace en listed in the service after sev eral years residence here as a member of the sales staff of Weyerhaeuser Timber company.) EDITORIALS ON NEWS (Continued From Page One) Mediterranean hits Sicily and Sardinia. Violent opposition by enemy interceptors and Intense anti-aircraft fire are encount ered. A' LONDON military observer (whose name is withheld) says the "neutralizing of the Ruhr" is nearing completion. The normal industrial haze over the valley (smoke from the fac tory chimneys), he adds, is THINNING OUT and in some places has actually disappeared, j in me inree ana a nan monms since this massive bombing ex periment began, he says, 30.000 tons of bombs have been drop ped on the Ruhr. We've lost more than 500 bombers and some 3000 of their crewmen have been killed or captured. OUR army headquarters in Eu- i ujtc icpuiu uiat ill uicu last two operations over Ger many our (American) heavy bombers have destroyed nearly 100 enemy fighters while losing 37 of their own planes. An American air force com mentator adds that while the I primary task of daylight heavy bombers is to slow down enemy armament production "ATTRI TION against enemy fighter de fenses is an important secondary consideration and is MOUNT ING STEADILY. . In other words, we're forcing the German fighters to come up and are SHOOTING THEM DOWN. That's the way air su premacy is achieved. OEBBELS squawks loudly to day about "allied terror planes destroying in an hour cul tural possessions which the cen turies have built." He gave no thought to that when Germany's Luftwaffe was IT'S THE TOPS! for MUSICTHRILLSCOMEDY HEAR ROY SIN6: ton.Kttpt.mr.'M 0 sKlOIMURTltSSI citiicn - The last of the radio broad casts sponsored by the Kiwanis club will be heard over KFJI on Monday night from 9:30 to 9:45. Gilchrist will be the com munity represented at this time. Kiwanians in cnarge of the Gilchrist campaign are Don Drury, Vance Vaupol and Mac Epley. On Tuesday there will be a short broadcast which will wind up the programs devoted to the June bond sales. Buyers who have pledged to buy bonds for the community of their choice are urged to buy these bonds at the banks before 3 p. m. on Wednesday, the last of the month. 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