Saturday, November 20, 2010

November 21, 1945

21 _____ Weather wasn't to[o] bade today _ getting very windy heard were going to keep two guns manned during the trip. Movies this afternoon at 1300 & again at 1830 in Messing space. First div. was force to give up compartment for sick Bay because of wide spread of Disenterry about 50 cases.
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Joe may still have been leaving these blank for security reasons, but likely he just meant to fill the information in later and forgot. I suspect with the end of his service in sight, he wasn't as motivated to fill in details.

Photo is of the homebound pennant catching the breeze. Each end was attached to the bow and stern so that it flew out sideways from the ship.

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