Nice weather. Plenty of signal work. Iowa, New Jersey, Biloxi, Mobile and Santa Fe joined us today. Two planes crashed lost all hands.
Open in the diary →Cloudy all day. Refueled from the Iowa. Very dull.
Open in the diary →Arrived Ulithi at 0645. Fueled from Iowa.
Open in the diary →Cloudy. Rough weather. Fueled from Iowa (B61). Camberra was torpedoed last night. Now under tow. We have been under attack all night. Us, the Potter and Cabot going over to escort Camberra. Cabots planes shot down 20 planes.
Open in the diary →Nice weather. Our task group joined us today. Plenty of signal work
Open in the diary →Nice weather. Arrived in Port at 0700. Refueled and took on ammo. Left port at 1630 in route to Manas in the Admiralies. Us and the Tingey are escorting the Iowa. This sure isn’t a very good Christmas. Received word mom is seriously sick. I pray to god she is okay.
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