Entered Okinawa at 1430. Plenty of action on beach. We were under attack all last night. The complete harbor was completely covered by a smoke screen. The destroyers Twiggs and Dailey were hit today. Also a hospital ship was suicided.
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.
Opening the index…