"The best I can remember, All of a sudden I heard the roar of an engine.

We looked up and all we could see was puffs of smoke coming out of the wings, and you could see where something was definitely hitting the ship. All of sudden, Tanner slumped over into this stainless steel pot and he had been

almost ripped in two.

 

Garlen Eslick sea 2/c

 

The officer of the deck ran up and yelled

"man all battle stations, on the double, this is the real thing"

 

I jumped and made a run for my battle station which was below the fourteen inch guns. About four or five decks down.

 

 

 

 

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