May 15, 1942 (Friday)

Pearl Harbor

Finished Daphne Du Maurier’s “Frenchman’s Creek” – very good, but without the depth or sensitivity of “Rebecca.”

The mosquitoes are quite bad out here – I wonder whether they were always this bad or whether December 7th had something to do with it. There’s a ghastly rumor floating about to the effect that many of them are breeding in the hulls of some of these battered battleships lying about – breeding with the help of rotting human flesh. I hesitate to believe this though – it is TOO revolting a thought.

Made an appointment with the dentist to have two wisdom teeth removed in a week or so – ohh boy, here comes fun!