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KENNETH DRAKE TELLS WAR TIME EXPERIENCES AT ROTARY MEETINGSees Service in Mediterraneanand Pacific Areas While inU. S, NavyAt Tuesday’s luncheon meeting of the Rotary club in Odd Follows hail, Kenneth Drake recently discharged from the U. S. Navy, gave a very interesting talk upon some of his experiences in the war both in the Mediterranean and Far East. Few Bath ho vs have seen more action in the same space of time.He was introduced by former President Charlie Small who entertained him when a young boy with three others at his camp on the New Meadows. All of the boys are now in the service and have made fine records.Kenneth, a former Times newsboy, graduated from Morse High and entered the Navy in 42. His first taste of naval life was at Newport where on account of passing good tests he was sent to Wentworth Institute ' in Boston for special training for several months.\ Tnis was one of the high spots in his life^ for he lived in the • swank Shriierset hotel in Back ; Bay which had been taken over by the Navy. His first assignment at sea was on the destroyer Nicholson which was engaged m convoy work across the Allan* jtic. It was m the Winter and German submarines and airplanes were making this life very (disagreeable. Their first stop was at Halifax where more ships joined them. Finally most of them reached Scotland. The Nicholson was in the midst of the African and Mediterranean convoy work for several months and had many narrow escapes. In one mixup a shell hit him and two of his shipmates and he was ai the hospital for many weekswith a bad leg infection. He joined his shin just as it was ordered to the Pacific and got some more hard fighting at Buna, New I Guinea, Admiralty Islands and I Australia.From there the doctors ordered him back to this country and he landed in San Francisco. From there he was sent to a hospital .n Oakland, thence to Boston and home for a rest. Kenneth is avery modest speaker but brought the hardships of the war to thosePresident Royal Johnson presided at the luncheon. Guests were Deputy Sheriff Loring Small and Emery Freeman.Two new members were admitted to the club. Doctors Stephenson and Wade 'who weretold of ethics and principles of Rotary by George B. Wolsten-holme in a very impressive talk.
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Bath Independent
Bath, Maine, US
Thu, Jan 11, 1945
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