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Kimball Wheet SpentOver 11 Hrs. in Water•. S, s. Duncan,tire^Soloja«ra“IS^''^in October, Kimball Wheet wa^ here for a orlef visit with Ills sla-'6 Iter. Mrs. Vera Turner, 601 West Sciota street.After being taton from the Pacific battle area to Philadelphia* he arrived in Indianapolis in time to spend Thanksgiving with his father, Mr. W. L. Wheet and other relatives. He came to visit Mrs« Turner November 30, returning te Indianapolis December 4 in order to participate in the Pearl Harbmr ceremonies. He will report back for duty December 20.When the U. S S. Duncan was ordered abandoned young Wheet, who is a seaman 1st class said a lieutenant commander on the destroyer had given his kapok life jacket to a wounded seaman and he in turn gave the lieutenant his jacket, leaving him with a rubber jacket which had sprung a leak.For over 11 hours he floated and swam, trying vainly to reachan island 5,000 yards away, everynow and then having to stop and blow air into the jacket.By the time he was picked nirwas severely sunburned. Before his experience On the Duncan Wheet had participated in tne rescue of some of the survivors of the airplane carrier, V^asp. He was a member of a fire-inch gun crew aboard the ship that helped rescue the men, ajuong them a friend of his.Kim made his home with Mrs.Turner, his sister, for two years,%attending Hines school, from wnich he graduated, later going to Decatur, III., graduating from the, Decatur Central High school. He
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Peoria Heights Herald
Peoria Heights, Illinois, US
Fri, Dec 11, 1942
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