Detroit evening times., 1943-09-16
8 Dead Men FoII u pon
Him in Battle with
jap 6uDer-BottIeShip
Continued From Tuesdays
Detroit Times

ON the afternoon Of Nov IL last the heavy cruiser San
" Francisco ranged silent unsatsfed revenge
through the savo Island
Nine brilliant engagements failed to blot out the bloody
picture Of Pearl Harbor from the memories Of the Frscos
fighting
Her destny-and that Of Marine Cpl Walter Rsmsy-was
yet fulfilled
That moment is to day-Frday, the 18th
At13O p m of the 18th General Alarm sounds through
out the San enemy planes coming off the star
board quarter -
Tall tough 90 year old Ramsy them sweep in fan
wise-31 twinengned Mubshi torpedo bombers-low
Island and 80 feet off the water They head
groups for each ship the small United States task force
Ramsy behind his pom pom the starboard side of the
masthead the Frisco navigation bridge feels only cold
rage while the guns going-when m firing I'm cussng
and when I'm cussing, / m the beam -
The attack furious that the eghtinch guns
ships open up pontbank the ahead of the skim
ming planes, to send spouts 200 feet in the air
Before they can stop the planes fly straight the
solid wall of water and all hell least five of
them downed that way occasion the water
spout"
The attack only 10 minutes but bomber flies
back savo and only American ship reports casualty
That is the cruiser San Francisco =,
The last Jap plane heads for her suicide dive All the
guns are on plane into flames
keeps coming Ramsy lifts his foot the trigger and
the pour through the JAP but nothing stop him
The bomber crashes the aerpart the ship explosion
Of high gas that kills several and burns many
Gazing at the floating wreckage Of japanese power
and the empty sky Of the gunner members remarks
10 Ramsy, i wonder what Tpjos going say about this
The answer Is coming
A. 80 p Of the day word spreads that a large
number Of japanese warshps heading for Guadacana
Like hungry gray wolves the Frisco and her sisters speed
forward TO give baenot realizing and caring about the
tremendous size of the Jap force that will oppose them
Al as a. m. the Frisco Maru-that playful term of
aiiecuonate approbrum ndulged in only by her
stu searching with the smak United States task force for
the enemy
Stealing through the night waters off Savo
Island, the backnes suddenly knitted through by search
light Il comes from Jap cruiser 4 900 yards away
Illuminating like daylight the leading United States destroyer
At his battle station Ramsys blood ice Because
We pompom gunnerS fire night without orders for fear
o. Illuminating ship
He sits in rigid agony the Americans commence fr
ing and the Japs cut loose and all hell breaks
For five minutes the night ripped into ribbons Of red
and yellow flame and shaken with thunderous until
one Of the Jap cruisers expode NTH reverberaton
mendous that both Jap and American suddenly and
neXphcaDly cease firing 20 watch ne holocaust Two
posonS follow each greater than the lastbcyond
prehenson Of human ears
II Is then that Rear ADMIR- DaneJ Calaqhan takes the
cruiser San Francisco full aheed between W. rows Of Japanese
warhps-the most daring and gnflcent naval Of
this war-psrbaps Of any dav.
Blazing guns trained now TO stsrboard 10 port the