Ship running aground

Heroes Remember

Ship running aground

Transcript

Of course in Korea that was basically a, an American show, but they, boy they, they didn't mess around. I give them, Americans credit for that. When we ran aground, oh we didn't run aground, our, we had a stupid officer drive us right into a rock. That's what happened, it's, it's, and we took a chunk out of our bough. Oh, we, were just hanging there on the rock and not, not a mile from our where we were, they're gunning placements that had been shelling our area from over there and we're dead ducks sitting there. I, I was on watch (inaudible), one of them on watch there were two of us and we had to get a hold of the American base and tell them we're hung up here and we need some help. Do you know from the time we sent that message to the Yanks, it's only, there only about two hundred and thirty miles away. There were, there were two aircraft, American Air Force planes flying cover for us. Oh it's,.... oh give me a second. It's, it's just so much appreciation. They covered us. There was only one red aircraft showed up and it didn't come within a few miles, and they went after that. That was the end of that.

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Mr. Adderley talks about being saved by the Americans after there ship ran aground. He tells how the American planes came overhead and protected them from enemy planes.

Jack Adderley

Mr. Adderley was born on Nov. 24, 1924, He grew up in the north end of Hamilton. He was an only child and it was tough growing up for his father had trouble getting steady work as he suffered from lung damage suffered during the First World War. Mr. Adderley joined the reserves when he was too young to join the service and on his 19th birthday he joined the navy where he served in the Second World War and the Korean War. Mr. Adderley talks about what it was like to be in the navy and what it was like when they were ran ashore and the Americans gave them air support.

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