April 2, 1945

2nd _____ We passed t[h]rough a l______ & I thought the ship was going to turn over. She seems to be top heavy. We had sacks down all day. We reach Okinawa tomorrow.
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In the next entry, Joe used the word "little" to describe some sort of passage and this is probably the same. He means a "littoral", a coastal region, where the shelf beneath the ship was fairly shallow and the waves high, hence the instability of the ship.