September 17, 1945

17 _____ We were somewhere off Okinawa this morning since the typhoon is still bade _ we might not go in untill this afternoon. At 1200 we got speed up & we headed for Okinawa. Reach Point Bowlow at 1800 & drope Anchor _ only a few other ships with us.
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The typhoon was called Makurazaki. On the 17th, the eye hit Hiroshima, Japan. Since much of Hiroshima had been destroyed by the first atomic bomb on August 6, there wasn't enough infrastructure left to protect the survivors. 3000 more people died from Makurazaki. Photo shows the typhoon's damage to a Japanese Army hospital.