July 20, 1945

20 _____ We still at anchor in anchorage. Hospital ship USS Relife is about 500 yards from us. starboard had recreation. 140 days out of states_________
Relife = USS Relief (photo). The Relief was an older ship, commissioned in 1920. She was a complete floating field hospital, but Japanese air raids became so hot in 1945, that she ran constant missions, carrying wounded from Okinawa back to Saipan and Guam. In July, she came to the Phillippines to serve as Fleet Base Hospital until the end of the war.