Pearl Harbor Didn’t even realize it was Sunday until almost noon. There was absolutely nothing to make it different from…
Pearl Harbor Had the day off. Spent part of it down at the pay office hey office trying to get…
Pearl Harbor First hop today. PBY-5A has not had its wheels installed yet though. Duration 12 hours. Searched southward for…
Pearl Harbor Got squared away. My first hop comes up tomorrow. Some of the pilots in the squadron have been…
Pearl Harbor Only 50 yards in front of out BOQ lies the flame-twisted hulk of the USS Arizona. Another 50…
Pearl Harbor Raised Oahu about 8 a.m. and were disembarked in Pearl Harbor about 1 p.m. Reported to my new…
USS Wharton, Pacific Ocean Finished a truly fine historical novel, “Final Hosting” by Patrick Welch. A story of Ireland, after…
Pacific Ocean Attended my first shipboard mass within memory this morning. Held outdoors on the after end of the promenade…
Pacific Ocean Miscellaneous — Finished J. Frank Dobie’s “Apache Gold and Yacqui Silver” — good collection of scuttlebutt from the…
Pacific Ocean Must be hitting the halfway mark today. Am mighty tired of traveling around on these damned transports. At…