. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . AN EXPLOSION WAS AVERTED BY THEIR QUICKNESS. 406. B SAMUEL TRIPLETT, Seaman, U. S. S. Marlilehead. Born in Cherokee County, Kansas, December 18,1869. IEFORE the American troops could be landed at Guan-tanamo Bay a problem presented itself to thenavy the solution of which demanded tests of recklesscourage and hero
. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . AN EXPLOSION WAS AVERTED BY THEIR QUICKNESS. 406. B SAMUEL TRIPLETT, Seaman, U. S. S. Marlilehead. Born in Cherokee County, Kansas, December 18,1869. IEFORE the American troops could be landed at Guan-tanamo Bay a problem presented itself to thenavy the solution of which demanded tests of recklesscourage and heroic intrepidity. The entrance to thebay was guarded by mines, and these had to be de-stroyed before the transports could attempt to enterand approach the shore. These mines were formidableaffairs, French made and so constructed as to explodeforty-five kilograms of guncotton at a time from a mereforty-pound blow. In other words, a ship striking themwith the force equal to that blow would cause an ex-plosion sufficient to destroy the vessel and send mostof its human cargo into eternity. To clear the harbor of these dangerous obstructionswas the problem. It was accomplished by the menfrom the cruiser Marblehead on July 26 and 27, 1898, One of them was SeamanSamuel Triplett, who gives an interesting description of the manner in wh
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