Dripping salt water, their hair matted with oil,
crew members report in on a sister ship.
Rescue in the Pacific
Pictures of the USS Helena CL-50 crew after they were rescued
Used with permission of the Saturday Evening Post c 1944 BLF&MS, Inc. Indianapolis.
Dripping salt water, their hair matted with oil,
crew members report in on a sister ship.
 A cigarette, hot coffee, dry clothes--those were the luxuries called for as soon as the survivors got aboard the rescue ships. |  Treatment for eyes temporarily blinded by oil which the Helena shed like blood when torpedoes broke her in two. |
A group of survivors debarking from the warship that rescued them.
In all, about 1000 of the Helena's officers and men were saved from death by drowning or Japs.