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Attack-—and Vengeance! The Story of Torpedo 8 By IRA WOLFERT.

Lt. Larsen's detail takes ncio torpedo bombers from Norfolk, Va., to Honolulu. Torpedo Squad- ron 8's fighters head straight in- to death tunnel 160 miles east of Midway Island to shatter at- tempt to take island, only one

plane surviving. Given command of squadron, Larsen takes sur- vivors and replacements to Guadalcanal, where they deal death systematically over Jap- infested islands.

CHAPTER 9.

At Takataka Bay, Squadron 8's flyers found a sloppy, hasty clear- ing and nobody waving at them, so they went down and worked it over, doing it in style and at their leisure, plowing it up and blowing it up and digging holes for it to fall down into.

Then they started heading back for the carrier. There was. sud- denly. a whole blurt of blubbery Jap voices in their ears, and one

high-pitched, squealing scream of a

pilot hit and falling and sounding his pain into his radio and an American voice saying. "There’s a

blue-plate special coming up on

your port quarter; get it!” and an American voiice replying with nerv- ous elation. "Raaawther!”

Torpedo 8 kept their eyes peeled for the Japs who seemed at that time to be all around them. But they couldn't see any and saw only people along the shoreline—a white shoreline jumbled up with jungle. The people were wraving at them in the way that people wave at his- tory going by, as if it. were a cir- cus parade. There were a few whites, missionaries and those strange, generally surly and neurotic people known as South Sea traders, but most were black and had red frizzled hair and gleaming bone needles stuck through their noses.

Then Guadalcanal came into view. It was smoking. The marines and the Navy down there sure looked as if they were cooking with gas. Long lines of landing boats were threading across the water to Tulagi on the north ar.d Guadalcanal on the south. They looked from the air like ants marching. They had the same purposeful, ceaseless re- lentlessness. At the time, as Tor- pedo 8 found out later, under the smoke over Tulagi a Jap was mak- ing a bid to kill with his native weapon—jujitsu. It was to be the first and last time, as far as any intelligence officer on Guadalcanal could dhcover, that the Japs were to try their much-vaunted much- dreaded jujitsu in hand-to-hand combat with our men on Guadal- canal. This Jap—a burly one. the picture shows—picked out a marine stripling, an 18-year-old boy with the skinny bones and pale face of a city boy. He got the boy down and got the boy rolling, but the boy made the Jap roll with him. They rolled together down a 2.3-foot in- cline.

Pic ks Out Two Schooners. The nthe ooy stood up. He was

barehanded. He had lost ail weap-

— ^. ...\ A torpedo plane carries the most devastating weapon the war has yet devised against the

ship—the torpedo. The photo shows an enemy torpedo hitting the destroyer U. S. S. O'Brien, with ; the carrier Wasp burning in the left background from three torpedo hits.

—Official United States Navy Photo. ons except his nerve. But he stood

! up an dthe Jap couldn't and

| never could get up at all after that. The photograph showed his head

| trampled unbelievably flat, so flat It is impossible to believe a human head ever could get that way.

But at that time Torpedo 8 knew nothing of these terrible despera- tions and bustled briskly through the smoke and did a careful hunt from Taivo Point to Mairu Sound. They saw two anchored schooners, in good trim but with no signs of life on them. That meant Japs to Torpedo 8 by this time, Japs hiding, so they hit both schooners, and one was seen to be sinking by the

t time they pulled out of there. When they got back to the carrier

they found the ship bubbling over with mixed emotions. Pug Souther- land of Scouting 5 had been shot down. Scouting 5 had gone in on

Jap bombers. Zeroes had gone in on them. Titere was a hot, crowded, brawl and Pug had got hit in it and had gone down in the middle of It.

[ There was emotion over that. Pug Itad been a good friend to all of Torpedo 8 'Incidentally, Pug at the time they were mourning him, was making his way back, wounded, to Tulagi. confident that we would have a good hold on that place by the time he got there and, as so many millions have found out about Americans, his confidence was jus- tified.

And there was emotion over the whole operation, the smoke of it, the narrow escapes in it, the vic- tories in it. It was a day of great victory for everybody, even for the unskilled laborers of war who had done nothing more than put their backs into trundling a plane out to' the tee. The carrier that day had landed and put into the air'more

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planes than any ship In recorded history.

The sandwiches were still there and still, as Torpedo 8 recalls, bad. So they went to bed bubbling from them, too, from emotions and sand- wiches. and slept like separate logs.

Planes Used Sparingly. A torpedo plane carries the most

devastating weapon the war has yet devised against the ship—the tor-

pedo—and Is therefore the most valuable airplane of the sea. So It is expended carefully, even frugally,! when ships are not around, and so since the Japs did not at first set :

up any ships for us. Torpedo 8 frittered restively and powerfully along the edges of the Guadalcanal landing operations. They were like sharks, who, hungrily in an empty sea. prowl nibbling along the shores.

At 6:15 in the rainy morning of August 8, they took off with Dave Shumway's Bombing 3 with orders to excavate the Japs from a hill on

Tanambogu Island. Tanambogu was the toughest nut the marines found to crack during the Occupation. The tiny island was almost filled by a

single hill and the hill was almost filled with Japs holed up in im- penetrable coral caves.

The Japs in those caves taught the Western world something we had not known before—that the Jap. man by man. is the toughest, least domitable fighter in the world. He does not give up but fights until killed. When an explosion kills everybody around him and wounds and dazes him he fights wounded and dazed until killed. He does not let his dead discourage him. He makes a wall of them to protect him and he holds on to his -mind, \ whatever the shocks against it, and bends it relentlessly to the single purpose of fighting. Even when he cannot hold on to his mind any longer the nerves in it have been shot out from under it. even he does not surrender, he kills himself.

Learn Terrible Truth. Our men learned the terrible

truth bloodily in the caves in the hill on Tanambogu, They had to go into every cave separately and fight it out separately with each Jap and kill each Jap there sepa- rately. They threw dynamite in and, where the cave was too deep for the dynamite to reach all the wav through it, they ran into the smoke of the explosion with tommy guns and bayonets and finished up that way.

Swede and Dave Shumway flew their fellows low over Tanambogu. They saw fires bunvng and lots of landing boats, some of them WTecked. A Kawanishl 4-engined patrol bomber and Zeros lay heaped

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up among bomb craters and som-

berly smoking buildings. Marines were waving at them, these, of course, being marines who were not in a line of fire.

Then Group Comdr Thorne, whose office was a dive bomber perched high in the air between Guadal- canal and Tulagi, tol dthe pilots to wait a wdiile and. in the meantime, to do a submarine patrol. There w-ere too many marines embroiled on the hill and camped in cave mouths to make bombing of the hill any- thing but dangerous.

So. for 2 hours, while marines killed Japs and got killed and pulled themselves slowly away from the target area, Torpedo 8 said “Ho hum, what a life!” tone actually said it, the rest thought it» and went growling through rain squalls up and down the coast line, looking for enemy subs. The enemy subs were there, but they wouldn't come to the surface when airplanes,were around, and that was the general idea of the patrol, to keep the subs down and harmless.

At 9:30 Thome whistled the bov* back to work. On the first pass, Thorne said, "Bring ’em up a little. You’re falling short.” "Okay.” said Swede, "watch this one," and went tearing for a cave mouth. But Andy Divine was just ahead of Swede and. as Swede points out. de- spite the official record on the pro- ceedings, it was Andy's bomb that dorpped into that open month.

"That’s fine work, boys,” said Thorne, “you're really digging now "

In a few minutes the whole hill looked shaken up. as It a big steam shovel had picked it up and put it down. The hill was still there, but it didn't look natural anymore. It looked as if it had been put together loosely. However, bombs are not very good against a dug-in person- nel that doesn't mind the noise they make and the shaking-up they produce and the Marines still had plenty of work to do when Torpedo 8. out of bombs, headed back for the carrier.

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