20 _____ Today was pertly nice day, the weather was really nice sun out most of the day._____ At 1400 this afternoon the ship was about 100 miles from the entrance to T_____ Bay, we pass between four islands called (_____ Shima). we are now traveling North east & this alto be the last bit of land we see for about ten days.
_____ At 1600 we sighted a ship & it pass in front of our bow just a few hundred yards.
_____ At 1700 time well be setting a head one hour which will still make _______ different then our west coast time.
_________
The letter T actually looks like an L or a C, but following the coordinates given the previous day, the islands mentioned are those strung out south of Tokyo, so likely the letter is an uncrossed T and Joe meant Tokyo Bay.
The islands were likely Oshima and Toshima (pictured), which are right outside Tokyo Bay. The other islands in the vicinty are Niijima and Shikine.
alto = ought to
Joe probably meant to go back and fill in how many hours each time the time changed, but he never did.
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