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were nearly half a hundred sunken ships sitting on the shallow with their superstructures silhouetted above water paying mute tribute effective savagery of the American Air Force counterattack in the cpfe- year. A i Thetroops were forced to view their new home from 5 miles Qui in the ntil traHSP0I'TCfTi011 ashore was ready to receive them. Completing 24 on board the l'98 , by debarkation time September 14th, the casuals become adjusted to the somewhat tedious conditions of seagoing life departed apparently satisfied with their cruisem. While the troops were traversing the 5-mile run to the beach via the boats the long arm of fate struck. During a heavy downpour a bolt fof lightning skewered a loaded 98 LCVP and struck down two Dutchess Boatmen, H. S. Karas and N. A. Amon, both Slc13, sparinrg the other 2 Sailors and 30 soldiers in the boat. Karas died soon after and Amon died ashore the next evening in an Army Hospital. These men were buried with military honors in the Armed Forces Memorial Cemetery No. 2 CNorth of Manilal along- side the men who had fallen in the fighting while doing their bit. The tragedy of the fate that brought these men through Okinawa and the many months of traversing submarine-infested waters and then took them in the hour of victory, was apparent to all hands. T Life went on as usual. The Dutchessmen found liberty in the war wrecked, blasted, bustling city of Manila la fascinating experience. They braved the dirt, dust, and disease in climbing through the rubble of the buildings to dis- cover a full sized family eking out existence under a couple of pieces of tin. Everywhere there were marks of the fighting, and everywhere were evidences of the military unnecessary but deliberate demolition and burning of buildings by the Iaps. On all side the Americans were besiegedwith pitiful stories of lap cruelties. And on all sides the extravagant American insisted on paying black rnarket prices and cheerfully bedamned the liberated natives for taking his money. The buildings of the University of the Philippines were but battle-marked, flame-seared, gutted shells. On the campus a burned American tank stood Where it had been hit with its gun barrel pointed mutely at the sky. This hulk, in which American blood had been shed, might well have been labeled The Price of Freedom and left for successive generations of students to con- template. , The occupdtion of Iapan was progressing slowly, there was yet only a handful of Americans on the Iapanese home islands. Despite the usual desires see the States as soon as possible, practically everybody aboard WGS to learn that the Lady would not continue her sometimes -monotonous Ll of the Pacific but would have a . .hand in the occul9Cf'f10P of the rneland. The storerooms were jammed to the overhead with food. possible supplies were taken aboard, the ship was fueled, and the 9 men he Second Demobilization Increment C6 reservists who had become eligible Separation plus three regular Navy CPOs entitled to re-enlistment leavel D . ut ashore The Dutchess was ready for the occupation. W . 4 'lb-Guerilla. 6 in vAppend1x 4. Q S., Swlc, 947 074 04, SV6, USNR, Chicago, Ill. A i,,y Slc 921 15.15 SV6 USNR Philadelphia, Pa. X gf. l35l y A
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