Searching For Survivors
Between 27 and 31 October, she helped search for survivors at the scene of the Battle off Samar, where a few American escort carriers and their screen had withstood the attack of a superior Japanese force. For the next month, she carried out local patrols and sweeps around Leyte, and made a convoy voyage to Manus and back.
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“Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Fathers house?”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 2:49.
Jesus to his parents when they found him in the temple.
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