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in the morning and going swimming in the afternoon. The only thing we did which might be called training was an eight mile hike which made me feel stiff and sore for a week afterwards. A few of the men from our little group were still at Fairfield awaiting a plane.I hoped that one of them would bring my musette bag but when they arrived a few days later that hope was dashed to the ground. Incidentally they told us they had come over on the large Navy flying boat the Mars.

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About Jan.15 we were transferred to Kipapa Air Base and attached to the 548th Nite Fighter Squadron , an outfir which was equipped with the new P-61 Black Widows. We were going in [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] ^[[on]] the invasion with them. Behind us, at Mokoleia, we left Fred Clarke, Joe Delendeck, Bob Milne and Nick Germoni who were to remain at Hickam Field to set up and demonstrate [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] ^[[a]] GCA set.

About that time we met Cap't. Jolley who was to go with us as overall 60 with Spence designated as technical advisor. Cap't Jolley had been with GCA since its inception nearly two years ago and [[strikethrough]]took [[/strikethrough]] ^[[had taken]] the experimental model over to England in late 1943

At Kipapa we were scattered out to different small barracks housing five men each. We learned we were to go with the squadron to, and yuh pays yuh money and takes yer cherce, China, Iwo Jima or Formosa. We were to help in crating the equipment, load it onto trucks and unload it at the piers. During our short stay at Kipapa, outside of