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Fourteen hours after the See Bees had landed they had built a road there. The Sea Bees had the necessary equipment and they know how to use it. The two marine cemetaries were running at full blast. The bodies were coming in too fast for the grave registration squads to keep up with. The Japs are using flame throwers for the first time since Bataan and I saw one Marine burned horribly. The enemy is using a large morter about six or eight inches in diameter and about five feet long.

We had an air raid alert the other night and we stood by our scopes hoping to see some action. The night fighters were steered by Agate Base, the main radar control station on the island. Out of the five enemy raiders, three were shot down. The next morning the P-51's went out to Chichi Jima, another Jap island some miles to the North, and got the other two. We were able to hear a play-by-play account of the air raid over our radio sets and landed the P-61's that night. We still had that damned mountain, Suribachi, about two miles from where the planes would touch down on the runway andit presented a psycholigical as well as a physical [[strikethrough]] problem [[/strikethrough]] ^[[hazard]] for the pilot. They's take what we started to call a "Suribachi"swing" to the left no matter what heading they were given to fly by the final controller.

We were told that a Jap raiding party had

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Not sure if "P-51" and/or "P-61": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_P-51_Mustang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_P-61_Black_Widow