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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
June 26, 1948
America Only
Grace After
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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
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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
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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
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on Monday night from 9:30 to
9:45. Gilchrist will be the com
munity represented at this
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Kiwanians in cnarge of the
Gilchrist campaign are Don
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On Tuesday there will be a
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June bond sales. Buyers who
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the community of their choice
are urged to buy these bonds
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TAC6MA. June 28 (,) The
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destroying the cultural posses
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"The galled Jade winces."
IN the Mediterranean, enemy
attacking Fortresses dropping
fragmentation bombs intended
to explode among the dense for
mations of our bombers hoping
not only to damage but to force
them to BREAK FORMATION,
thus leaving holes in their dead
ly field of fire through which
enemy fighters can zoom to at
tack us.
This tactic has been men
tioned before. So far. we outsid
ers have been given no trust
worthy report as to its effec
tiveness. 'T'HERE has been much com
ment of late about the LULL
in the fighting.
Slowly a new conclusion takes
shape in our minds.
THERE IS NO LULL!
The BATTLE OF GERMANY
is on. Also the battle of Italy. It
is BATTLE IN, THE AIR.
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