Sea is smooth as glass. Received word today that president Roosevelt died. This was really a blow to all of us. Today the Japs started using a robot bomb which seems to be plenty powerful. Four of our destroyers were hit today. Three were hit by suiciders. The forth by a robot bomb. The one hit by the robot split in two and sunk.
Open in the diary →The names around the story
People & ships
Family at home, shipmates, commanders, and 82 vessels, named as Elmer named them. Open any name to see every diary passage in which it appears. Where the Navy’s muster rolls identify a shipmate, a note says so.