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Mrs. Roslyn Weathers of Bay St. Louis dropped off a very interesting article about her late husband and family, which appeared in the New Orleans Times Picayune?s Nov. 22, 1942 edition.
A photo accompanied the article of Mrs. Weathers, her Navy husband, and their 14-month-old son at their New Orleans residence.
Mr. Weathers, who had been wounded in a naval engagement in the Pacific, disclaimed the role of ?hero.?
A Navy veteran since 1934, Weathers was on the USS George F. Elliott in early August, 1945, part of a task force landing Marines, Army forces and supplies on Guadalcanal Island, which according to his word was the last thing in the world the Japs wanted.
The landings had almost been completed when 40
Jap torpedo bombers appeared on the horizon.
The article reports Weathers as saying, one of the bombers dove, apparently to let go of a torpedo aimed at his ship. But nobody ever saw the torpedo. Instead the plane itself crashed into the ship.
Weathers was blown 30-feet from his post and did not realize that he had been burned and hit by shrapnel.
Shipmates took Weathers into the sick bay. The ship finally went down, and he and the rest of the crew were picked up by a United States destroyer.
Mrs. Weathers reports that her husband was wounded on Aug. 8, 1942, and after his recovery he was assigned to a Navy Mine Sweeper. He was released from active duty on June 14, 1944. He died on Oct. 21, 1994 in the New Orleans Veterans Hospital.