both of them went right down into the living compartments below and started large
fires below. About the same time that happened a plane dropped a 500 lb bomb up
forward on the starboard and it went right and a group of 20 mm and through the main
deck and blew up in the compartment below. Well the plotting room is right next to the
spot where it blew up. When it went off it knocked us all down in the plotting room
about that time I was really beginning to get scared. Then another two planes hit our
mast and breaking it off part way. Well that was the last of the attacks. It was all over
and we sure were glad of that because all the guns that we had left to fire was just one
5" mount. Well we started to clean up the ship. She was on fire and sinking too. The
fantail was all the way down in the water and still going down farther.