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of I Delisle - Mr. Delisle: They found out four years ago it was ankylosing spondylitis, which was worse. But I also had applied for flight training, and I was approved for it. But when my orders came through to report to Squntum Naval Air Station, I was in the hospital on Treasure Island, so they had sent the orders back. So that was the end of the flight training. We left Mare Island in October and we went to Pearl Harbor to join the Pacific Fleet, on the Oakland. From there we sorteed to the Gilbert Islands as an initial bombardment of Tarawa in the Gilberts, and at the same time we were attacking islands in the Marshalls. After we got through through, after landing successfully, we went back to Pearl Harbor.
Mr. Nichols: How long did you spend out there in the Gilberts?
Mr. Delisle: About two or three months. While we were there, one of the ships with us, the USS Independence, was torpedoed by a torpedo that missed us by approximately 200 feet. It his the USS Independence and it crippled it, because it hit the after engine room.
Mr. Nichols: How long were you off of Tarawa bombarding the island?
Mr. Delisle: We used to strike the island one day and go back again the next day. In the meantime the airplanes were bombarding it, too. When the initial invasion started, we stood off to protect them because they were sending planes from Majuro to attack the fleet and the landing craft.
Mr. Nichols: When did the initial invasion take place, do you recall?
Mr. Delisle: The exact date, no. I think it was in December of ‘43.
Mr. Nichols: And the whole landing operation lasted about three days?
Mr. Delisle: Oh, it lasted a little longer than that. It lasted at least a week.
Mr. Nichols: But most of the fatalities came during the first
Mr. Delisle: The first three or five days.
Mr. Nichols: Then you headed back to Pearl?
Mr. Delisle: We went back to Pearl and that was the last time we saw Pearl Harbor or any land for six months.
Mr. Nichols: Did you get a little R&R when you went back to Pearl? Did you get off the ship?
Mr. Delisle: No, they sent me to a school for the Pacific Fleet. I was in Honolulu at an advanced training course to become an instructor, a little deeper than I used to be. After that we Ddisle - .1 went out with the fleet, Task Force 38. We crisscrossed and struck just about every island in the Pacific. So I was in every combat after Guadalcanal, all the way in to Japan.
Mr. Nichols: You were at Guadalcanal also?
Mr. Delisle: No, that one I missed. The Gilberts were the first, Tarawa was my first one. Then we island hopped to New Guinea, to Truk, Palalu, Eniwetok, we hit just about all of them. In fact, we did hit every one of them. We were going to invade Truk, the Japanese so- called “Pearl Harbor,” but we sank the ships in the harbor so we didn’t have to go in. Then after that, we got involved with Saipan, Tinian, Guam, and Chichijima, and Iwo Jima, and like I said, we hit every island in the Pacific.
Mr. Nichols: When you were at Chi Chi Jima was the San Jacinto there with you when George Bush. Is this when he got shot down?
Mr. Delisle: George Bush was off of, around Truk. I remember the radio communication between submarines and the planes that were keeping an observation for Bush. We knew just when the rescue was accomplished.
Mr. Nichols: But you weren’t directly involved in this rescue, defending him from Japanese forces.
Mr. Delisle: No, we weren’t. Sub crews had that under control.
Mr. Nichols: Were you attacked by any other torpedo planes other than the one that missed you and hit one of your sister ships?
Mr. Delisle: Oh, yes. We were attacked when the New Lexington came out, in one of the attacks on the Marshall Islands. they used us as a decoy to protect the rest of the task group. We were supposed to stand by the New Lexington at night, it was under a night attack. A plane came in a dropped a torpedo, and it missed us and it hit the New Lexington. They sent the New Lexington back to Pearl Harbor, and we stayed out there. Kwajalein, Majuro, Eniwetok, every one of the islands.
Mr. Nichols: So the Oakland pretty well got around then. It never received any damage of any big consequence?
Mr. Delisle: Not of any big consequence. We had shrapnel damage.
Mr. Nichols: Ever struck by a kamikaze, or attacked by a kamikaze?
Mr. Delisle: We were attacked by them, but we were never hit. Incidentally, my brother was on a ship which was identical to mine, and there were only three of them afloat at that time. We used to have three units in the task force, we’d strike one island and one of the other Dc1i1c - units would strike another island, and the third unit would strike still another one. For about six months we used to listen to Tokyo Rose on the ship’s P.A. system. She couldn’t understand how we could attack one island and the next morning attack another one maybe four hundred miles away, she couldn’t understand how we got there that fast. Because each one of these units was made up of identical ships, they had the same silhouettes.
Mr. Nichols: And the Japanese patrol planes never figured it out.
Mr. Delisle: They never knew which one it was. There was the Oakland, the San Diego, and the San Juan. They were a special kind of ships. They had a very distinctive 3 unit silhouette. Sometimes it looked like you were going frontwards if you were actually in reverse.
Mr. Nichols: And they camouflaged them that way too.
Mr. Delisle: Yes. And six months later, I can remember the day that Tokyo Rose got on the radio, and she said “Oh, you Americans. Now we know how you attacked these islands so fast.” The secret was out.
Mr. Nichols: What kind of armament did you have on your cruiser, besides guns. Did you have.
Mr. Delisle: There were 12 five-inch 38s, there were approximately io 40 mm., and a whole battery of 20 mm. guns, and also torpedoes. We had a torpedo rack.
Mr. Nichols: You didn’t have any eight-inch, was it the heavy cruisers that had the eight-inch?
Mr. Delisle: Yes, the light cruisers, and the heavies.
Mr. Nichols: Were you five-inchers in open vaults, or were they in turrets?
Mr. Delisle: All in turrets. Three forward, three aft.
Mr. Nichols: And these were dual mounts, or were they.
Mr. Delisle: Yes, twin mounts.
Mr. Nichols: How did they get the ammunition up from the hold of the ship?
Mr. Delisle: From the magazine they had a hoist that went from the magazine, which was on the bottom plates of the ship, up to the upper handling room which was just below the mount. From there they put it into another hoist that brought it right into the mount. As they were doing that, they used to set the fuses on the projectiles.
Mr. Nichols: And these were complete shells, you didn’t have to put in a projectile and powder. . DdisLc - 6 Mr. Delisle: Two pack. There was a charge shell and the projectile.
Mr. Nichols: And these were all loaded by hand.
Mr. Delisle: All loaded by hand.
Mr. Nichols: But they were directed by remote? Did you have radar directors?
Mr. Delisle: Oh yes. Mag 58s. We also on one occasion used a local manual training and pointing, because we had lost our control from the director.
Mr. Nichols: Were you in charge of a gun crew?
Mr. Delisle: I was in charge of number two mount, five-inch mount. The magazines and all.
Mr. Nichols: Did you have twin 40 mm.s or were they quad mounts.
Mr. Delisle: We had single mounts, single 205.
Mr. Nichols: And 40S, what about the 40s?
Mr. Delisle: The 40s, they were quad mounts as well as twin mounts. We used to get all our ammunition, food, and water, from tankers at sea.
Mr. Nichols: How often did they resupply you?
Mr. Delisle: Whenever we needed it, actually. Sometimes every two weeks, sometimes every four weeks or three weeks. One time we had gone without seeing land or without getting off the ship for six months.
Mr. Nichols: Could you refuel on the fly, so 1o speak?
Mr. Delisle: Yes, always. Sometimes we’d refuel from a tanker, sometimes we’d refuel from the other cruiser, and sometimes from an aircraft carrier.
Mr. Nichols: Didn’t Chester Nimitz kind of develop this refuel on the fly?
Mr. Delisle: I don’t know if he was directly responsible for it, but I know it was done all during the war. In fact, at one time we had hit one of the worst typhoons that they had ever hit in the Pacific, and we were trying to refuel just before we got hit by that typhoon. We tried to ballast the ships by having full tanks, but it got so bad that some of the destroyers couldn’t load up with oil, and during that typhoon, to my recollection it lasted five days.
Mr. Nichols: And this was the typhoon where three or four destroyers were sunk, and.
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Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Nichols:
Delisle:
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history. Yes.
While
at
used
awhile,
them,
repairs
came
Yes.
But fleet
the After
assigned
through
an sending
Yes.
supplies.
strike New
awful We
couldn’t to
It’s from
goodness No,
water You
swimmers.
was
through
that
be
advanced
ordnance
you
went
We
about
we
Ironically,
to
pretty
and
After
didn’t
Hebrides,
back
I
land,
the
and
you
strange
on
was
got
time?
different
and
They do
didn’t.
were
all
out
the
get
to
all
we
But
deepest
the
into
you
we
were
seven
that
that,
out
back
deep
stop
got decent,
because
a
rest
We
these
Panama
supplies
went
any
were
gunner’s
West
new
still
department
were
the
at were
Kwajalein
themselves.
Some
when
with
to
together,
on
we
just
into
in to
and
units,
the
miles
supplies
part
reason
on
into
Espiritu
destroyer,
Japanese
picking
pick
the Coast,
able
that and
going
went
when
my
height
recreation. Eniwetok went
of
the
Canal
I to
of
mate
action
got
deep.
and
destroyer
the he
to
area. them
the
brother,
and
the
and
Oakland
for
into
to
that
their
and
we
passed
send Santo.
men
right
So
transferred
we
destroyers
I’d
of
fleet,
swimming
hit
and
ocean.
the
that,
we
it
off
it’s
up.
were
Eniwetok.
we
they
the
had
later
out
be
either.
was
from light
one
Then
USS
too, couldn’t through
the
electric
off
We pretty
were
and
the
from
war
able
during
been
to
sailing
refused
on,
of
the
Japan,
coast
because
signals
Benner,
went
all
word
Pearl
when
picked
from
We
off
that them.
traveling
in
say
what
I
close
largest
to
We
the
hydraulic
get
got
them.
Okinawa
the
the
of through
had
in
hello
school.
to
people
that
Harbor
were that
I
to
tried
ships
any
Japan.
They
transferred.
a
I
his
there,
to
went
load
water.
ship
a
was to
few
each
congregation
DD
no
more
the
day
to
ship
they
supplies
sail
to
came
to were
After
and...
school. the
they
some
up,
back
one
told,
and
him
807.
and
other,
Marianas
fuel
We
on
accompany
used
something
training
or
supply
not
was
went went
so
I
that’s
down
that
I
they
After
out had
of
less
I
and
was
there.
graduated
Because
went
some
too
powerful
to
those
to
into
of
way.
a
together. back back
had
load
criss
ships.
Trench,
against
right
where
our
for
many.
do
captain
naval
to
We
of
like
the
the
islands,
anything
a
the
shakedown
up
Washington,
to
and
cross
the
I
in
longshoreman’s
went
they
I
from
we
was
Marines
They
1200
San
Pacific
ships
thought
unions.
with
invasion
the
which
I’d
friends
qualified
on
loaded
ours
could
the
into
Francisco
you’d
that
run ocean,
the
weren’t
miles
ammunition. to
ever
again,
is
once
only
in
harm
and
it
Majuro,
I
across
ship
I
of
stop
supposed
up
D.C.,
had.
swear
was
in
was
for
the
to
and
Japan
going
that
one
in
on
DeisLe
they
who
the
these
for
the
I
to
the
our
to
we
in far -
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Nichols:
Delisle:
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Yes.
could
That
the
try
if To
committing raped
Japanese—it
Saipan
No,
Were
Yes.
fleet,
and
The
was.
circled American
being
them, They
topside with
Honshu,
radar
had
When
Oh,
You
have That
invasion.
they
get
to
island?
Well,
we
we
Bone yes.
There
was
the
For
the
didn’t
see
we
you
circled
and
atomic
to
capture
picket
followed.
the
back
we
surrendered
especially,
out,
werent
picked
and
went
up carriers
invade.
main
some and
them
there
involved
returned
In
planes,
tortured.
USS
were
was
suicide
and
to
participate
at
I
was
ship.
August
us
bomb
on
could
back
them.
fleet.
some
the
up
jumping.
crazy
Bone
in
were
another
three
When
he
only
their
their
in
but
that
they
about
They
in
north
by
hit
to
At out
to
probably
see
it,
On
of
they
some
reason
four
the
got
they
times,
the
jumping
way
us
area.
the
one
it
country
and
had
the
to
in
that
destroyer? used
quite
The
six
end
rescue
was
hit
all
dropped
Pacific
of
try
Bone,
at
the
back
spotted
time
islands
they’d
people
he
men.
Not
coming,
us
and
their by
gory
the
of to saved
clear,
to
a
invasion
swooped
and
off
out
few
the
they
of a
send
we
at pick
we
southern
they
and
kamikaze
details
daughters
send
the
any
the
that us,
that
there,
there
the
were
they
island?
of
they
joined
and
used
us
up
they gave
and
those
atomic
cliffs.
of
lives
we
time.
their
up
of
60,
whatever
were
dispatched
cruising
I
together.
the
we
natives,
to
end,
could
they
lost
the
Task
attacked,
our
over
All
plane.
70,
sorties,
The
of
and
come
will
Indianapolis
planes
bomb,
invaded
the
too.
Philippines,
about radar
four
used
So
us
Force
see
mothers
Marines
spare.
off
survivors
That
who
They
over
civilians
instead
miles
We
the
the
or
that
especially
to
that
the
to
a
36
58,
by
chance
didn’t
five
went
thing
attack
us.
give
escorted
Japanese
planes
men.
island,
pilot’s
away
saved
them—and
were
and
and
of
Crew?
Our
were
got
then. million
us
in
headed
coming
necessarily
Japan,
on
to at
everybody
from
‘back
knocked
hell.
coming
face,
close
planes a
and
the
up
that
find
lot
planes
Saipan
men,
to
we
the
In
Bone
to
that’s
for
of
enough
they into
especially
time
out
the
came
fact,
up
their
us
could
into main
us,
lost
and
rather
would
like
us,
if
were
north
back
from
to
how
our
and
they
in
over
that the
the
carriers
and
Tinian,
them
see force
the
ship
one
close
to
told
northern
than
be
that.
I
end
water,
were
us.
we
he
them
DcliIe
was
the
of
to
which
was
that
of he
-
a 10
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr. Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Nichols:
Nichols:
Delisle:
Nichols:
Delisle:
Nichols:
Nichols:
Delisle:
Nichols:
Delisle:
Nichols:
Delisle:
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To
Yes.
And
Did to
But
with
of
coffee,
the
Some
I
Oh
Ice
bring At
our
Japanese
Oh,
What
Yes,
was
Was
One
alongside
hated whatever
if
or Also
understood
vomit.
time.
the
we
least
no,
four
you
CL
cream
you
own
after
I
part
that
that
time
this
in
did,
them
could.
couldn’t
were
island
just
that.
no.
95,
ever
They
haven’t
days.
it
that
clothes,
of
awhile,
was
Spam.
the
was
we
to
especially
of
was
at
a we
back
your
our
That
go few
of us
attack.
line
that
only
every
rescued
boiled
the
Swarmed
went
there.
complain.
clean
Maug
to
job
in
eaten
And
bags
we
to
I’d
living
of
only
was
the
downed
Ulithi
the
meal?
us
too.
approximately
the
just
just
work,
it,
We
quarters.
it
a
sailors
left,
Maug?
a
it
water
and
one
they
pilot
conditions
wasn’t
with
carriers.
rotten
But
would
Atoll,
put
get
since.
They
and
pilot
we
that
we’d
fried
mainly
near
them who
got so
big
We
circled
we
were
bad.
to
duty.
spot
we
we
that
fold
We
plenty
green
was
the that
it,
had
had
in
three
like
rescued.
picked
we
better
you..
the
they
got
Those
them
a
harbor
the
in
no
chow
a
bag,
were
flies,
on
of
bodies,
it
weeks
laundry a
other
baked
island
ice
him
Corsair.
on
board
up
than
people
they’d
We
line
radar
bottle
there?
cream
occasion.
and
with
up.
food,
were go
it,
the
for
and
on
ship?
pick picket
had
put
up
He
they
flies,
running
retrieval
Marines
ship,
to
I’d and
on
alongside
got
them
been
eat.
When
them
tried
get
the
or
ships.
we
so
damaged
whatever
a
floating
in
destroyer
had
we
out
up
and
of
everything
I
whiff
our
was
We
Marines
didn’t
and
once
of
to
the
lockers.
were
supplies.
eat
of
on
and
in
take
Army,
a
they
that, at
even
the
Spam
the
week
he
they
decoys
and
that
off
call
USS
water
landed
and
have
believe
We
the
and
for
soldiers,
could
time,
them.
Oakland,
for
I’d
dog
a
had
to
for
they’d
length
DdlisIc-
have
so
the
do
me.
wash
three
tags
no
I
that 11
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Nichols:
Delisle:
Nichols:
Nichols:
Delisle:
Delisle:
Delisle:
They
had
entered
find
ship.
big
other
headed
While
they
ship,
No,
Did
The
crawl
place
like
The
watch
Victory rising
and
world,
amazing. The
places Three
What
Hawaii
home.
down
That
We
our
Maug
sampan,
to
they
a
life
you
best
assigned had
seeing
an
R&R
They’d
water
had
and
side
for
knife was
along
I
be
kind beside
the
sun
point
Maug
where
toward and
the
was
hour
wasn’t
and
at
R&R
meet
were
way
anybody
I
a
a
We
on
of
supposed
sun
had
Sea,
there
was
brand
room
patrol
on
of
it
the
in
thrown
that’s
on
all
it
two
before
Kwajalein,
bodies
I
us
the
had
I
over.
on
R&R
all
the
the
any
go
we don’t
this
too
a
that
can
beautiful
sunsets—you
and
those
to
were
beer,
company
where
Kwajalein,
sunsets
from
boat.
down.
new
what to
boarded
to
mud.
ship.
blow
bad
lifelong
patrol
explain
did
them
destroyer
sunrise
every
and
to
remember.
go
watch
Pacific
a
a
Buddha
when
different
have
you
it
But
they
We
into.
up
we
They
few
And
baseball, so
out
overboard.
are
was.
boat,
one
of
the
the
all forth.
had
acquaintances
didn’t
that
like until
get
and
Japanese
been
had
there,
men,
you
can’t
we’d
islands
more
took
we
of
of
It
ship.
ship.
diesel
at
it
a
Not
I
because
parts
we
those
looked
their
this, an
contacted
come
One
said, few
was
and
find
a
Kwajalein?
watch
seven,
pretty
imagine
beautiful.
that’s
had
The
Navy
hour
So
that
Inspecting
was
engine
Marines
what
of
of
disguised
that’s
power planes.
a
major
they
right
the
some
decrepit.
gun
strangest
them
we
the
it
one.
good
eight
one
after. beautiful,
little
while
rest
a
come
how
we
threw
stood
it.
down
powering
country.
on
battles
patrol
plant.
That
thing
on
happened
who
care
of
went
R&R
of It
We
the
the
more
they
you
up.
Eniwetok.
them.
We
was
the
part
everything
general
to
sun
got
of
had
ship,
boat,
I
and I’ll
ship.
at
through,
island
were And
are.
it.
never
circled
fleet
us.
or
more
that
sea
of used
killed
never
We
nothing
It
the
to
I less
a
We
that I
once
I
was
took
quarters
led
serving?
I
Japanese
be
always
was
got
ship.
they
don’t
In
was or
to
colors
it
didn’t
by
overboard.
forget.
I
as
a
whole
a
fact
better
and
look
had in less
into
off.
so
friend
to
crew a bombs
involved
had.
You
think
awhile
fishing
said
amazed
when
do
were
after
So
bought
find
an a
a
so
The
patrol
thing,
than
back swimming
know motor
at
we
of
hour
huge,
the
there
that
a
There
we
out
the
we
behind
water
mine
in.
vessel.
boarded
radio
having
aft,
in
Navy’s
a
we
boat,
darn
got
boat
before went
they’d
time,
It
of
copy
it
are
my
didn’t
from
and
wasn’t
was
was off
this
on
on
vacation.
that
A
and
well
and
life. many
in
to
a
of
so
the
Delik-
of
the
set
the
big,
just
sunset
we
good
back
for
we’d
we
a
it 12
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Nichols:
Nichols:
Nichols:
Delisle: Nichols:
Delisle:
Delisle:
Delisle:
Yes.
So
charge because
circled
that
a
word
came Because We
that yen
quarters, spotted
the worth
They
I was
communicating.
Oh, kept for
It could
it they little
Yes.
could compartment,
their Did
sailors fish
40
figured
was
may
this
any
were
lookout
to
you
his,
Because the
hook
1
I
got
ship. mm.
asking
over
still
to
over
ship,
hold,
have
got
could
anything
back
of
a
good
trying
was
not
it
bombs
I
the
crew
they
could
so
cent—ten to
given
it
five
after
could
on
use
not
mount,
three
us.
one
been
they
know
came
I
at
so
have
for
ships
and
“Who
relations.
visually
the
it.
gave
were
surrender
men.
to
It
the
to
the
and
I
of
spend
orders
the
that
see
a
feet
After took
swooped
but
all
hit hide.
any
war
attack
been
in
them
what
yen
that white
and
very
it
supposed
cents
belongs
I
way
We
his
were
the
they
so
high,
heard
to
toilet
more
see
it
ended it,
that
today,
to
So
if
the
worth
I
end
smoothly.
out
face,
had
him.
up
it.
Bone
probably
to
plane,
sure.
to
was
let
might
that
down
I in
I
so
war
In
we
topside
you?
than a
paper,
had
of
dug
ten
to
of
to
the
that
a
to
everything.
Everybody
noise,
and
I
talking
fact,
anything
It
the
my
went
the just
this?”
patrol
circle.
had
had
a
yen
send
on
had
have him
i 5 th,
14
was
patrol
Japanese
When the
everything
aft
war,
life
they
maybe?
and
us.
at
just
to
or
and
that’s
into
a
out
a
about.
all
Yokasuka,
set,
value
the compartment
AThile
and
They
crawl long-handled
15
We
was
peace
then. I
boat
later?
sent
about
thought
I
he
in
Tokyo
He
of
got
years bridge.
1
crawled
what
this
didn’t
ending.
yen,
found
Betty,
there,
came
is
So
didn’t
just in
I
word
continue in
party
was
pretty
was
ended.
was
to
a
old,
Bay.
amongst
it
it
a
I
swooped
even,
young
So
over
get
was.
devalued
Japanese
a
and
was
twin-engine
was in
then,
understand
inspecting
to
the
That’s
and
he
roll
broom,
he
Before
close
there
him.
That
Okinawa,
on
when
us,
none
crazy
came
all
But
ioth.
created
fellow
their
of
this
those
its
over
paper
I
to
when
I
was
money and
that
base. that,
and
was
I
went
of
way,
that
they
was over
While
what
could
sleeping
that
came
prisoners,
plane,
us
English,
us
quite
one
there
and
was
that
standing
money.
that
we
I
August
When
because
got
were
down
and
and
bigger
it
didn’t
compartment
we
have
of
they
over,
had
our
was
a
money
was
kamikaze
into
painted
made
the
went
quarters
bit
were
at
but
to
we
experience
got
hit
ioth, told the
keep
than
then.
on
general
one
I
it
of
closest amidships
inspect
got
don’t
out
after
had
a
there,
that
word
wouldn’t
damage a
sailors,
us
white.
of
sign
my
they
it.
director
It
on
were
plane
and
if
no
the
plane, looking
think
times
I
was
awhile
that
to hand
the
we
I
that
figured
sent
way
there.
had
and
just
to be on
be
ten
he
for
it
on
of
I a
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
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