225- The Boiling Sea

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You are somewhere in the Pacific, out of Leyte in the Philippines. charting a course of South by Southeast, when out of the deep of the sea, a new volcano was born, and your ship is caught in the middle of it, from which there is no escape.

Listen now, as escape brings you Vincent Macu's story, the boiling sea. It should have been an easy trip.

It was the spring of 45, The war was almost over and what few japs were left that far south didn't figure to give us any trouble. I was first made of the hope by victory, hauling cargo with the landings and the Philippines.

But this trip we detoured south to the Tylian Island of Karasuruti, and the Molochas to pick up a detachment of bridges, a demolition team, and bring them up to Samar. We cleared with another about 1830 hours and his darkness fell.

I went out on deck. There I found Lieutenant Drury, the Ranger CEO, and his top sergeant, watching Gamkamura the volcano over on the island. Hi, McCallum. Evening, mate. Quite a sight, isn't it? Sure it is, but it'll get better. We pass closer to it off to Nadi. In the dark you can see the lava spotting like Fourth of July.

We got a look at a small one back on Kazururi, inactive. It's a whole group of islands on On both sides of the straiters, volcanic, you tell me. Try them. You can have my share of them.