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Account of the USS Canopus written by Capt. E. L. Sackett

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  • Our ship was gone, and our "Dunkird was over but no -welcoming home- lard was waiting to solac® cur battered Teorriora, nor could any but the most incurable opt' -poets for the futur©, The channel through Corregis1 , sate must pass to meet . rescu© submarines, could ho longer be used because of Jap gun battori®© now linei g tad never been a channel through the scui era mine1 s it look as if we were ... y our own-dead ly obstruct; There were m: vy ships hu. South Harbor, sweep wire that .could be ahead of a ship, and if it were towed astern in the usual ma. ner, the sweeping vessel would inevitably b© blown up by . « There was only. «n© ; p©. If small boats, starting close sweep o narrow channel -without chancing on mines n ..•©•, the big sweepers could follow beh nd and widen the breaeh—provided they were lucky enough to stray a few feet off the straight and narrow path. All work would have to be dene at night, making accurate naviga ion almost impossible* Ho matter how dangerous the job, ther© were walwas enthuasti© Savy men to undertake it. The"versatiel motor launches of the Canopus w turned over to experience lin© Fore© sailors, and becom© minature sweepers, fiov- igotional lights wer® rigged on shore, hooded to ©arson their purpose from watchful Japanese eyes, light after night, for two weeks, the aring crews crowned their any mines had exploded near the venturesome boats, but never quite close enough to destroy them. Again a path to the sea was open, making it possible for submarines to com® in and rescue a few chosen passengers. In the meantin®, the defenses of Corregidor and nearby fortified islands were gradually beinb blasted to bits, Ther® were now act nr-arly s© many objectives to distribute the ensaay&S bombing raids, which mad© destruction that much more concentrated on the ones still unconauered. The shores of Batoan were within easy artillery range, and batteries lining the be pounded day and ni?ht against every exposed position on the islands. Observation balloons were even sent up in Batoan t© make it easier for art!Ilex shells to be spotted into every nook and ©ranay* Hugh two hundred and forty milliment©r shells soon began to search out the deeply buried ponder magazines under Corrsgidor's mortar battc causing terrific explosions which wiped out several of the guns and their unfortunate crews* All of the Canopus crew and officers who were fit for such arduous duty had been sent into beach defenses with the IJariri©s immediately on arrival at Corregidor, This duty involved a precarious existence in fox holes and caves witch they dug for themselves in the cliffs. They slept*
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