Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1942 — Page 6

ER CIRCLED HIDING U-BOAT

a | Around They Flew as Men Died in Flaming Oil Below; i Down Went the Depth Bomb Straight To lts Mark.

This is the third ‘of a series of articles from the first war correspondent fly in actual combat with United States army bombers seeking out the rman submarine wolfpack in the Caribbean.

By NAT A. BARROWS Copyright, 1942, by| The Indianapolis ‘Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

ORANJESTAD, Aruba, N. W. I., March 5.—Behind us, as we skimmed over the Caribbean with our bomb bay door

DEFENSE LINE CRACK IN BURMA

Decisive Battle for Rangoon District Appears to Be Under Way.

MANDALAY, March 5 (Us; P.)— Japanese forces, cracking an outer portion of the British line, surged west of the Sittang river today and the decisive battle for the Rangoon neck of Burma was under way.

Front line reports indicated that|'

the Japanese had occupied the town of Waw, less than 70 miles northeast of Rangoon, and that the main bodies of troops were swinging to a frontal clash.

and the Rangoon-to-Mandalay railroad portion of the Burma road supply route to China. northeast of the railroad junction, Pegu, which is 48 miles north of Rangoon.

to be aimed at the Bay of Bengal, approximately 150 miles to the west,

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ried half way across the 15-mile| {strip between the lower Sittang

The town of Waw is some 15 miles

The Japanese spearhead appeared |

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open and our bombardier ready for action, a volcano was

erupting.

Already, hardly=20 minutes after the German U-boat’s torpedo found its target, the big seagoing oil tanker was settling. Her precious cargo of oil—miillions of gallons— - now fed a roaring furnace. A tristing cloud of black smoke poured into the trade wind and tongues of flames darted

eam in the murk as if|” ' mocking our desperate attempt to discover the U-boat that lurked somewhere under

us.. 3 Men who had died in boiling oil were on that doomed tanker. And men who had seen a flaming ocean creep toward them were in and under the blazing path draining away from the ship. Ahead of us, less - than a mile away, two life boats lifted and fell in . the swell. Ope was half-full of water — unoccupied. The other was bottom up. A broken oar and a| Nat Bhrrows blue seaman’s cpat floated idly nearby. Stretched flat in the glass nose of the big army bombing plane, I saw all as in a nightmare. A burning’ | er at sea is not a pleasant

Seeking Target

“Dirty, filthy so-and-sos,” muttered the machine - gunner beside me, Staff Ser Randolph Crist . of Rustburg, Va. On his platform above us in the glass nose, bombardier Staff Sergt. Abner G. Musser, of Lancaster City, Pa., hunched 4 his bombsight,

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his eyes roving the ocean for a target. And then we saw the third boat. There were men in it, men who pulled awkwardly at the four oars. We were pdver them in a few seconds, flying low and to one side. One man, crumpled in the how, waved feebly. Another doffed his

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Somewhere Close By

Around and around we flew, seeking out the German undersea raider. Lieut, James Giannatti of Uniontown, Pa., the pilot, and Lieut. Robert B. Marland of Danielson, Conn, the co-pilot, knew that the sub had to be somewhere close by. In the elapsed time since we had left our share of the convoy, some 30 miles away, and followed back on a track of smoke, the sub had had an opportunity to get only four or five miles at most. Her best strategy would have been to follow up the tarpedo, cross under the

tionless at 200 or 300 feet, delicately holding her balance, or to ease her way toward shallower water for a resting spot on the bottom.

See Possible Enemy

Hence Lieut. Giannatti conned his bomber over the area opposite the side from which the torpedo struck, while Lieut. T. R. Ford, commandirig officer of the Aruban detachmenf, of the U. 8S. army air corps, took up the hunt on the other side.

Once Lieut. Harry M. C. Lowery of Cumberland, Md., Lieut. Giannatti’s navigator, glimpsed a spot that seemed to be the target. Down went the depth bomb straight to its mark. There was a splash and a wisp of smoke as the pomb exploded under water, with a boil of water. If the sub was within a couple of hundred feet of the center of that bomk explosion, the Germans have one [J-boat less in their wolf-

the Gulf of Venezuela. Still Afloat

That night in another bomber, I flew over the same area, convoying a fleet of tankers and freighters. Now, sunk almost to her scuppers, the doomed tanker still blazed fierce-

‘ly. As I watched, a fearful explosion

sent flaming oil hundreds of feet in all directions. It was like all the Fourth of July rockets in the world bursting gt once. Yet the tanker still remained afloat and strangely enough her Norwegian flag still fluttered astern. The next morning when I came; out in a pre-dawn patrol’ toward Noordpunt, Curacao, she had gone. ou | Only a greasy film of oil marked her grave. The Norwegian tanker that | Rongsgaad was lost forever to the sight of nan.

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storekeepers and classified laborers are to he held soon by the U, 8. civil service commission here. The storekeepers will fill vacancies in various federal establishments in Indiana at a salary of $1260 to $1800 a year. Either experience or certain types of education will qualify applicants between 18 and 53. Applications must be on file before March 23.

The classified laborers will receive a salary of $1080 to $1200 a year for filling positions at Ft. Harrison and other establishments in this locality. Applicants must be between 18 and 53 and must file before Wednesday. Six months experience or completion of four grades of schooling are required. DEMOLAY CLUB TO MEET Past presidents of the DeMolay Mothers’ club will be honored with a pitch-in-supper at 12:30 p. m. tomorrow on the club’s ninth anniversary.. The celebration will be

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