While Archie parked their car, Elsye and the children stumbled upon a strange-looking object in the forest. Archie Mitchell, and a group of Sunday school children as they set out for nearby Gearhart Mountain in southern Oregon.
On that morning she decided she felt decent enough to join her husband, Rev.
The 26-year-old was pregnant with her first child.
Instantly killed on May 5, 1945, were Elsye Mitchell, a pregnant mother, and five teenaged childrenĮlsye almost didn't want to go on the picnic that day, but she had baked a chocolate cake in anticipation of their outing. The war in Asia was far away when a family in Bly, Oregon, triggered a 15-kg anti-personnel bomb. This decisive action that took over seven hours ended in what amounted to a midnight fog. Furthermore, the territory being defended was a Dutch colony, which, since the Dutch mainland was under Nazi occupation, was effectively serving as their homeland, and thus meant much more to the Dutch than the Anglos, who found the campaign small in comparison to their overall war effort in the Pacific.īut a major reason why it has not gotten much examination is simply because of a lack of information, which is exemplified no better than in the ending of the Battle of the Java Sea. Unless the defeat can be used to bash the United States like Vietnam is, defeats tend to get less play in the media. This relative silence is understandable for several reasons. Houston, the Australian cruiser Perth and the British cruiser Exeter, particularly in their futile efforts to escape the Java Sea, James Hornfischer’s excellent book The Java Sea campaign has gotten little in the way of analysis in the English-speaking press, and what coverage it has gotten has largely focused on the role of the crews of individual ships such as the US cruiser Role of the Forward Observer and ArtilleryĪ Turn Too Far: Reconstructing the End of the Battle of the Java Sea SAARF – Special Allied Airborne Recon Force The Loss of Argonaut, Amberjack, Grampus, and Tritonįrench vs.
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