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OUR PURPOSE WAS TO PROTECT THESE PRECIOUS CARRIERS WHOSE EFFORTS WERE SAVING OUR COUNTRY FROM DEFEAT IN THE PACIFIC ployed searchlights with no better results. At 1911 the task group formed a scouting line in an attempt to locate our planes and also the planes belonging to the other cruisers. Our hearts were heavy as we searched for our shipmates that night. Late the next day they were still missing so we gave up the search to return to guarding the carriers. Some weeks later, in Mare Island, we were surprised to see our pilots come aboard ship. Their story was incredible at the time, but soon became common in that area. Unable to locate us at night- fall, they landed at sea to save gas. The next morning they took off, searching again for sight of their ships. When their gas supply began to run out, they headed for the nearest land on their emergency tanks. This was the southern tip of Rossel Island, appropriately entitled Cape Deliv- erance. Setting themselves up in a de- serted native village, they lived like kings on fresh chicken and the fruits of the land. Persistent efforts to establish radio contact with patrol planes in the end were finally successful. Identification was a bit more difficult until one of the officers discovered a personal friend in the unit contacted, and was able to supply information of his family as a Hpasswordf' Gasoline was dropped to the stranded fliers, and arrange- ments made for them to rendezvous with cruisers still in the area, a hundred miles to the eastward. Our pilots were flown back to the U. S. via Australia and Pearl Harbor. Meanwhile, after returning to patrol duty, with the temporary loss of our planes, our task force received orders to return to Pearl Harbor. We looked forward to this opportunity to once again stretch our legs on friendly soil and have a bit of relaxa- tion before we set out again for future attacks on the enemy .... f.5'g A2f 'J' I A 4tmf?L5ff6Q1 j .' . .'.5r.I.
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