Twenty years old today. Wish I had Dorothy here to celebrate with. Seems a long time since I was home. Sure would like to see the folks and sis.
Open in the diary →Hot weather! Letter from sis. Sure wish we were at sea.
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.