50s Frogs Magazine Vol 12
Page 9

heard a word. (Some old Frogs are of the opinion-they joined the bad guys )…. And it could be true.
  As an off-shoot of this operation, a small group of Koreans wanted to pose as fisherman and needed a boat. Our APD eased in off a fishing village at night and sent a LCPR in about two hundred yards out then launched swimmers. They confiscated a boat, towed it out to the LCPR who in turn towed it to the ship, The ship, towing the boat at slow speed was out of sight by daylight. The excitement on the operation happened on the way back after dropping the fishing sloop off.
  It was night and we were all asleep when the ship ran into a mine field. The Captain, thinking launching depth charges with short fuses would eliminate his problem---did so. The resulting explosions damn near sank our ship and scared all those sleeping

frogs half to death. What made matters worse, this panicked crewman came racing through our compartment shouting: “abandon ship---- “abandon ship!!!”
At daylight, after being convinced that we were not sinking- we mounted a machine gun on the fantail and began sinking the mines but that was little solace for our souls.
P.S. The team made several sorties of the sort described above. Also, several times we were called upon to extract groups who had been compromised and had come under fire--the extractions slmost slways at night and, most of the time, performed under fire. Most  the extrac -tions included wounded and dead-making the op even more  hazardous.

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 A love for tradition has  never weakened, indeed it has strengthened nations in their  hour of peril!

Sir Winston Churchill