Louisville (CA 28) - Naval Cruise Book

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160 A Kamikaze coming ing he's hit hut doesn't stop. Coming straight through that withering barrage. Ploughing into Turret 2, and erupting into flame.

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Upper: With their clothes taken away to be burned, ,lap prisoners of war await new garments in slate of abjection. Lower: Prisoners are led below blindfolded. valuable bits of information were later corroborated by CincPac. We returned to Leyte with our POW's, traveling the same path We were to use a few days later when we limped back from the painful Lingayen Gulf ordeal. Lingayen Gulf Finally, on January 2, near midnight, the Louisville got underway for Luzon. We were part of the fire support group commanded by Vice Admiral Oldendorf, consisting of six battleships, nine cruisers and thirty destroyers. This force was to prepare the beaches of Lingayen Gulf for invasion by our troops. Starting several days before DM Day, We were to neu- tralize and destroy enemy shore installa- tions such as pillboxes, stores, coast artil- lery and personnel concentrations. This 159

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A holocaust billows forth, and hell reigns throughout. Flames and smoke mush- room toward the sky. And disappear leaving death and destruction. 161