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I I 1 i Officers, who directed the course by ob- servation from their respective vantage positions. Heroism became commonplace. The entire foremast was engulfed in flames. The starboard side became the funeral pyre of many of those men who were sta- tioned in the area of the hit. Men hor- ribly burned stumbled to assist firefighters. Persistently, relentlessly, damage con- trol parties fought to save the ship, to beat back the inferno. In the after half of the. ship, men, choking and gasping for air as the thick smoke, stinking of burned flesh and paint, enveloped them, stood their ground feed- ing the anti-aircraft guns. They blazed away at two other suiciders closing on us, making a total of six Hred upon in a few minutes. Lingayen Gulf became a holocaust. The forward portion of the ship was a tragedy of twisted plates, twisted bodies, and twisted minds. High in the superstructure in the main battery fire control station, men wondered if they were trapped. On bended knees one of them prayed. On the open bridge, an officer who had miraculously escaped injury, screamed in crazed, instinctive re- flex, HWho9s fighting this ship! Fire those gunslw Out of the flames, broken, burned bodies pulled themselves over blackened fire hose, through stinging salt water, along the buckled decks to the arms of those who mercifully injected morphine, applied rudimentary first aid, lifted them into the wire-meshed battle stretchers and lowered them to safer areas. Gradually the fires were brought under control. The distasteful, ghastly business of cleaning up began. With the Admiral on his death-bed, the Captain painfully burned, with over 125 men swathed in bandages, and overflowing the sick bay into neighboring sleeping compartments and into officers' country, the ship for the first time in her history 169
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170 Balloons blink 6'Welcome Home Under the Golden Gate again. Home again, but not for long.
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