The Commonwealth ships were on the west
coast of Korea and the United States 7th Fleet
were on the east coast, so we worked
with British cruisers, Australian destroyers,
our own destroyers, two frigates from the
Australian Navy and one Dutch ship,
and a couple of smaller frigates,
and I'm sure that, with the exception
of one, one of our ships getting hit,
there was excellent patrol.
Interviewer: You mentioned one of the
ships was hit. Can you tell me about that?
Well, they, I can't remember if it was
Haida or Huron, but they used to come,
ships used to come in,
into this bay everyday and bombard it.
Like, the tribal classes had eight four-inch guns,
so they could put a fair amount of lead ashore,
and they, they would come in, like as I said,
everyday and, and do bombardments and
then go through this bay and then come
back out, and they came in one day and
the Koreans had three, two or three tanks
dug in under the back side of this hill and
they came in there and started firing
their broad sides and they shot back.
They hit b-gun, there was, the gunnery
officer was killed. I'm not sure if there
was maybe three or four killed.
My friend was the captain of the gun.
He got a DSM for getting the gun crew
back up and they were all dazed and
he got them back up and got the gun
firing again, but it just hit the gun shield.