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 →Fueled from New Jersey. Enemy planes come out tonight but did not attack.
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 →Raining as usual. Fueled from Putuxexnt. New Jersey and her group joined today. Continuing raids on Phillipine Islands.
Open in the diary →Still patrolling off Phillipines. Fueled from the New Jersey B62. Rained most the day. So far this has been a very dull day.
Open in the diary →Nice weather. Our task group joined us today. Plenty of signal work
Open in the diary →Finally started to clear off. Refueled from the New Jersey (B62). Search planes are now searching storm area looking for survivors. We are also looking for survivors. We are also going back through storm area. Three destroyers and one DE missing.
Open in the diary →Nice weather. Refueled from the Wisconsin (B64). The Wisconsin is a nice looking ship but crew looks awful green. We are now in T.G. 30.1. Three of us destroyers escorting the New Jersey, with Halsey, back to Ulithi. Our ship got a big write up in a paper back up.
Open in the diary →Nice weather. Left Ulithi at 0730. We are heading for Formosa to cover landing on Luzon. We had engine trouble at 2020. About two hours delay. Our group consists of N. Jersey and other ships same as listed before.
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.
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