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of the TNT. The Jap hit a boom
on the ARD & crashed just over it.
If it hadn't been for the boom
he would have demolished the ARD.
As it was one man on the ARD was
injured, but no one else was hurt unless
they developed heart trouble.

Well, you would think that after
this was over they would let us in but
no, they kept us cruising back and
forth in open waters all night.
Finally they told us to anchor 1000
yards from a beach where the
f by some strange coincidence the
front lines happened to be. All
night long I sat in the comm
with a machine gun in my
lap & men armed to the teeth on
my ship looking for Jap swimmers,
Jap craft, Jap mines etc.

The shells from our battleships
"sure made a pretty sight" as they
whistled over our heads into the beach