Battle near Malta
Heroes Remember
Battle near Malta
The epic of that battle was beyond, it's incredulous, it's
difficult to explain, though the warships were running out of
ammunition. I know our own vessel was at a point where one
more day and we would have had no armaments, no ammunition to
fire at anything. Also on the night of the 11th, of the 13th,
I can remember leaving the bridge of the Marksman to go down
to the signal office just one deck below - I can't remember
what floor, but anyhow - when I came to come back out of the
bridge just a few minutes afterwards I stepped out onto the
flag deck and was coming up extern, on the external gangway
and as I stepped out of that signal office door to my left I
looked up and there was a German torpedo bomber heading right for
the ship. It seemed so close and it was coming for the bridge
super structure. I remember looking at it and I remember
thinking to myself, well this is it. I could not see how that
plane could not have crashed right into the area where I was
standing and then I suddenly realized that the guns were not
firing. Normally if they were doing, diving like that at a ship
they would also be firing their armament.
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