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...protection, the Navy gave her the best it had-an escort of destroyers. The old "covered wagon," waddling under her sawed-off flying deck like a washwoman under a bundle, set off on the highest adventure of her career...
Again a destroyer picked up what was left of the two crews. It took them to Australia. There, at Darwin, the Jap had sunk the destroyer Peary. Her crew had fought her to the last, while the water rose around them, never left her until her deck was awash...
...bright moonlight their boat slipped through the minefields, past the Cavite shoreline, where Jap artillery blazed intermittently at Forts Drum and Hughes. Beyond the bay they laid a tricky course to freedom. "A tight feeling in our stomachs," they sat on deck with legs and arms crossed as well as fingers. When a member of the crew wrung a chicken's neck, "the agonized squawk made us jump, our stomachs rejoining us some time after...
During these frantic maneuvers, the engineer came on deck smiling, because he was damn proud of his boys-the Filipinos in the engine room were sticking without a murmur, not even asking questions. Pokerfaced deckhands buckled on automatics and bolo knives. An hour later, saved by darkness, the deckhands "were strumming a guitar and ukulele, singing their version of American jazz tunes, vintage...
...friendly port at last, the engineer came on deck, smiling again. And well he might...