The 594th EB & SRTall Tales | USAT SEAWITCH | Milne Bay | B Company | The 287th Signal Company, 2nd E.S.B. MILNE BAYB Company: Chapter TwoLt. Nagy told me to get a detail to go down to the boats and pick up two cases of the officer? ration. The men went down to the boat and found it empty. They reported to me and I took them to Lt. Nagy to check the boat number. He too went down with the detail to find the boat empty. A whole boat load of officers ration gone... Lt. Nagy was beside himself. At the evening formation he mentioned that the men, "Swooped down like vultures?", and with that proceeded to check every boat in the company, as well as every tent. Weeks later I put a notice on the bulletin board that I was tired of the food and that I would like a change. The next day, two cases of boned rabbit was at the mess hall door. Lt. Nagy asked me where it came from and I replied with the fact that I didn't know, and that I had just put a notice on the bulletin board. Lt. Nagy, if you?e reading this you should have checked the wing tanks... That is all... The next tale goes back to 1945 near Manila. Tech 4th. Grade, Bob Lewis, Co. C, was happy after receiving news that an Atomic Bomb had been dropped on Japan. He and his friend, seaman Art Hughes decided to consume large amounts of Medical - 180 proof - alcohol. They mixed it in coke syrup and water and eventually paraded up and down the street shouting "Mabuhay!" (the word for victory in Tagalog) and firing a 38-special. This caused the observant Filipinos to disappear. Art wanted to "Shoot the windows out!", but good sense or fear of MPs stopped them from doing so.
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