Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1945 — Page 16

AGE 16

Between 2 Fires Plight of Local Man on U. S. S. Franklin Water Tender 2-¢ Herbert” Rob- ; : bins, Indianapolis sailor who survived the bombing of the U, S. S Franklin off the coast of Japan March 19, learned the meaning of .the term “between two fires” in the ship disaster, +E _ Robbins, the husband of Mrs, Frances Ellen Robbins, 1714 Milburn st. and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Robbins, 1721 Milburn st, was in a mess hall below deck when the lone Jap dive bomber dropped two bombs on the carrier's decks, setting off fires and explo-| sives which devastated the ship.i “The first bomb hit aft—that was| in back of us—and dropped straight! water Tender 2-c¢ Herbert Rob‘down into sick bay,” Robbins re-| pins , , . ome of the U.S. S. lated. Franklin survivors.

Trapped in Compartment | Bates, 2404 N. Alabama st. His sis= “The second bomb hit forward and ia. js employed at the ‘Indianapolis blocked both exits from the smoke-|woien co, where Robbins worked filled compartment, We were really | ove than five vears before enter-| “trapped!” | ing service three years ago. | Robbins and 150 other men| now home on. leave, Robbins plans] hugged the floor of the mess hall}. «loaf around" until he reports to! for three and a half Hours, penned, gacton, Mass. His long range plans in a‘room full of ammunition bY| revolve around firing boilers, his job the two raging fires. Finally they gat the water company and the one made their way through a venti-| he has been doing in the navy. lator to flight deck where Robbins| «The first thing I'm going to do and other uninjured men joined fire when I'm out and rested up is to fighting units. fire a boiler that'll hold still,” he de"The ventilator was the same One clared. used ' as an escape route by Lt.

Cmdr. James L. Fuelling, another | Indianapolis survivor of the tragedy, and the 300 men wham he

helped lead to safety.

| wey Met Fellow-Townsman ND SCHEDULE Later, . overcome by smoke, Rob-

bins was transferred to the rescue| ship Sante Fe and returned to Ha- |

waii. On one of. the ships to which $3,400,000 Short, . Accord-

he was subsequently transferred he met Machinist's Mate 2-c Harold | ing to Time Chart. Indiana. today was $3,500,000

Bates, whom he described as “the only Indianapolis man I've met who could talk about the same home- | behind schedule in the purchase of town spots with me. | series E bonds in the seventh war “We had fished in the same holes Joan drive. at Lake Schaffer, played bajl in the| According to a progress chart of same park, By the time we got t0| bond sales, based on the percentland we'd even got down to discuss-|age- of quota for each sales day, ing tree stumps we both remem-| Hoosier E bond purchases to date bered. : should be $40,800,000. So far, only Bates is the brother of Betty/ $37,400,000 worth of bonds have been am | SOI. | “Indiana has the highest quota! in E series bonds ever assigned us,” Eugene C. Pulliam, state chairman of the war finance committee, said. “We must show the nation that | we can meet and exceed this goal f just as we have done with every =| quota of the other six war loan | drives. > . “The fate of the men on the fight|g fronts, quicker ending of the | war and the return of our sons de- { pends now more than ever before {on the individual bond purchasing {of those at home.” Meanwhile, Harmony township in { New Harmony was the first to go, | over the top in the seventh war loan campaign. Its quota was; $75,000 and sales the first day} | totaled $121,148.25. The goal now 'is to double the quota.

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