Carl Lenz
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Richard; Received your reply this pm, thank you. I emailed George Bastien,
his e-mail adress is in the
Evans
page, He appears to be quite happy that
someone answered his request. He and I were aboard the Evans at the same
time, I'm sure we had visual contact with each other and I'm sure I would
recognize him if I saw him again.
I purchased a scanner (HP ScanJet 5p) I've sent pictures to four
different people, over the internet via e-mail, and they said they were
great. These pictures had a bmp not gif or jpg, maybe you can explain the
difference and how you go about changing from bmp to gif or jpg. Any help
along these lines would be very helpful. I've had about 3 months experience
with computers and about 3 weeks with scanners. So I need all the help I
can get. I will wait for your answer before I try to send you any more
pictures, just to make sure I get it right.
Would you enter my e-mail adress in the "crews" 1950-1953 I'm looking
for anyone aboard during that time. Any notation might say that I thought
our overseas home port was Wonsan Harbor, because we spent so much time
there. At one time we fired a five inch shell every 12 to 15 min, at a
railroad jct, day and night. Did you ever try to sleep, under a five inch
mount, when it went off that often? Believe it or not you can. No wonder
the Koreans opened up on us every now and then.
I'll wait for you reply, Thank you.
Carl Lenz
Onawa, Iowa
Carl,
Thanks and since these pages are only three months old, I am quite
pleased (and still in awe of this new technology) that people are
actually starting to contact one another through them. I have yet
to find any of my old shipmates but it is only a matter of time.
A 5p is really a good scanner so I am not surprised that you are
having good luck with it. A bmp file is perfectly fine as I have
software that can convert. The Internet can only utilize gif and
jpg which is why we have to end up there. Also there are some
shareware packages on the Internet that you can get. One is from
PSP and I will be purchasing there full package pretty soon. Another
is PhotoImpact by Ulead. The reason for the different formats is the
old story of everyone going their own way due to lack of standards
with bmp standing for bit map which is used by Microsoft Word I believe
and gif standing for graphics Interchange file or something. The
important part is that you can easily convert them using application
packages.
I entered your name in the Evans crews pages but I misplaced your
rank or rate so let me know and I'll put that in too.
I was in after the korean and before the Vietnam wars (yep they were
wars) so it is really interesting to hear what things were like during
those times and compare them to the "peaceful but cold" early sixties.
Don't hesitate to write down anything else that you want about those times.
Thanks again,
Rich
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Rich; Havn't heard if you received the 4 or 5 photos I sent. Also noted in
one of your messages that you were interested about war time Navy vs peace
time Navy. Let's see if I know the difference, if there is a difference.
Speaking from the war time point of view--the word I'm looking for is
purpose (I think) You have a purpose in war time, and that is to survive.
GQ drills, that aren't drills, well there is nothing like it, you run like
you have never run before, you open and close hatches like you have never
done before. And you don't know if the shell bursts are the enemy's or your
own five inchers going off. There seems to be a lot of soot like debris
hitting you and you can set an Olympic record getting where it is you are
supposed to be. I usually was in my compartment, in the fantail, as far
back as you can get and still be counted as ship's co.,and my GQ station was
the forward engine room, so I had a good distance to cover and some exposer
time, getting where I was to be. I saw men freeze in hatch's on ladders or
just freeze where they were standing, but not for long, My hat goes off to
the men who manned the 40's and the 20's, they were exposed during the whole
battle. Anytime we were in the war zone, most of us slept in our dungarees,
when you took a shower, you took your clothes with you. You might not hear
anything until the GQ bell sounded, then all hell broke loose. To this day
when I hear that GQ bell (usually in movies) it sends a message. After a
battle, there seemed to be no barriers, between men, even some of the
officers seemed approachable. You spoke to men that you didn't before and
they spoke to you. There was a sort of closeness, I think it was the fact
you all shared in a confrontation and survived it. It's like after a bad
storm and you find yourself visiting with people you normally don't visit
with.
The decipline was laxed in the war zone. We had the reservist to thank
for that, I think. We all lived in almost constant fear of mines. The look
outs could spot them in the day time but at night we were almost at the
mercy of the mines. Two destroyers hit mines, that I know of, one lost
it's bow, just ahead of the mess hall entrance, and the other ship took it
in the fantail, in the aft sleeping compartment, while making a 90 degree turn.
This might give you an idea what it was like, but you still have to go
through it to know what it is like. There is excitement, fear, danger, and
something to tell your kids or friends after it's over. Two things I hate,
artillery, mines. And another thing I found out, I'm no hero.
Anything more you would like to know along these lines, let me know.
We all have different views of what it was like, these were mine.
Carl Lenz
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Richard:
The event of the two attachments are as follows; We were cruising
off the North Korean coast, when two floating mines were spotted. We sank
them with small arms fire. Up the coast we spotted two small boats, with
three men in each boat. We opened fire, with mount 51 or 52, never found
out why 2 rounds exploded just after they left the barrels. I and a
shipmate were standing on the main deck, up forward, when this happened, we
got the heck out of there PDQ. The men in the boats started waving cloth
items back and forth, (surrender?). We lowered the whale boat, whith
several armed men, and went out and retrieved the boats and the men. I
believe 2 of them sustained wounds, from schrapnel, one of them almost met
his waterloo when he bent over to pick up a fish and show it to our guys,
one of our guys opened up with a thompson machine gun, he didn't hit the
guy, but he sure snapped to after that. We brought the men aboard (North
Koreans) and we got a good look at our enemy. Then we loaded their boats on
our fantail. A day or two later we transfered them to a tanker. It was
determined these 2 small craft were responsible for towing these mines out
into the current. You can see the Korean coast line in the background.
This ends this chapter of the Evans doing it's part. More later.
Carl
Richard: The attached photo is what was left of a "junk" after the Evans
depth charged it. Set the depth charge at the lowest setting, I think ten
ft. That boat was full of "Dummies" but can't seem to find any of them now.
The Evans experimented with 5" 40mm 20mm. The whole idea behind this was to
ascertain the best way of desposing of these landing craft, along with the
occupants. Planes fired rockets at them etc. But the real clincher was the
depth charge. This type landing craft was to be used by one country to
invade another. Mainly Red China invading Formosa. More later.
Carl
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