The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-11
MRS. {. MOORE
HERE TO VISIT
WITH PARENTS

| Mrs. Carter Moore, attractive
young daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Homer Garvin arrived in Juneau
this week to stay with her parents
for the duration while her hus-
band is on active foreign duty in
the U. S. Navy as aviation machin-
lists mate.
While she was in Seattle, Mrs
Moore was active in promoting a
club room for wives of enlisted
men in the Army, Navy, Coast
Guard, Marine Corps or Coast and
Geodetic Survey The proposal was
approved by the Navy Wives Club
and the Navy Mothers Club and
at the time she left Seattle the
Civilian War Commission was ex-
pected to take the club under its
wing. The proposal, together with
attractive photographs of Mrs.
Moore, was written up extensively
in both the Seattle Times and Sc
attic Post Intelligencer.
Mrs. Moore was married on last
April II in Seattle, shortly after
Mr.. Moore returned to the United
States from duty in the South Pa
cific. He left two weeks later but
they were reunited in Oakland,
California where he was stationed
at the Alameda Naval Air Base
After a brief two months ashore he
was again ordered to foreign duty.
"Patwing 10"
Stationed in the Philippines at
the time. of Pearl Harbor, Mr.
Moore was a crew member of Pat
wing TO- a famous force of 40 old
planes that day after day, from
December until early in March,
when Patwing 10. as it had been
continued in peacetime, ceased to
exist, ran handicap race with
extinction, using their old patrol
planes to fight off Overwhelming
swarrns of Zeros.
The saga Of 'Patwing TO- as con-
tanned in brief Navy report, is
one of the most thrilling tales of
heroism on the part of the uncon-
querable youngsters who manned
the old Phys, that has come out
of the Pacific. They fought to the
last man, fought of Japs while
others we're evacuated from Bataan
and Corregidor. IN planes patched
until there was nothing left to
patch Mr.. Moore was in several
planes that were shot down and
on one occasion spent seven days
adrift in a rubber boat with others
of the planes crew, when their
ply was forced to land after both
engines we're shot out.
While the men we're swimming
helplessly in the water, the Japs
strafed them continuously for thirty
minutes. In the log kept by Lieut..
j. L. Grayson. pilot of the plane,
he states The Japs strafed us con-
tinuously for thirty minutes. Their
aim was very poor None of us
was hit. Finally they run out of
ammunition and went away
On this occasion they landed,
finally, on the island of Mongoli,
of the Soela Island group. weak
from lack of food and water, sun
burned, but happy. They had to
cross the island to reach natives
who were to take them to a near
by inhabited island and, having the
choice of walking around the beach
or across the island, chose the lat
ter route only to discover they had
to climb a 5000 foot mountain.
With no shoes, feet out and bruised,
the men tried to make boots by cut
ting life jackets and wrapping
them around their feet After reach
ing the other island they sent mes
sages and were picked up by an
other ply.
According to the Navy report of
'Patwing TO- three months after
Pearl Harbor, two bullet-riddled
planes, patched and patched until
they could be patched no more,
YEARLY Numbered down to lame
duck landings on the broad waters
of Darwin Harbor, Australia. The
men who had manned them, young
uncomfortable, defiant youngsters
who daily parleyed with death in
their indomitable battle against
hopeless enemy odds were dead, or
scattered"
Mrs. Moore is justly proud of her
husband and his contribution to
the war against the Japs