Nice weather. Fueled from the Franklin (R19) Hancock had sub contact. Result was negative.
Open in the diary →Nice weather. New Jersey, Hunt Hancock and Hickox left for Pearl Harbor today. Sure will be glad when we get fresh food aboard. Received mail from home.
Open in the diary →Nice and hot. Fueled from carrier Hancock R19. Plane crashed on deck of Independence. Troops landed on Leyte this morning.
Open in the diary →Had more trouble than we expected. At 0100 we were attacked by suicide dive bombers. Our ship shot one plane down. The other ships shot down eight. The carriers Intrepid was by hit by three suiciders. The carriers Hancock and Cabot had close calls. Other task group was hit also.
Open in the diary →Nice weather. Left Lithi 6:30 a.m. Our group consists of the cruisers Miami - Vincennes - Destroyers - Hancock - Hunt - Hickox - Sullivans.
Open in the diary →Nice weather. Our task group joined us today. Plenty of signal work
Open in the diary →Ships in near the beach. Were under attack all last night. The Kidd was hit by a suicide. The Essex here in our group was hit by a suicide. Also the carrier Hancock was hit. The New Jersey rammed the Franks. We are heading for 12 mile picket now.
Open in the diary →Rearmed and reprovisioned today. New heading for Okinawa to patrol. Had radar picket with Potter - Hunt - Hancock.
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