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tored over the island at 2000 feet and the crew bailed out. Kingbird One Seven was the last plane left in the air and the crew of that plane was bailed out. We continued to watch the course of the last plane as it flew on the automatic pilot. It started out to sea, turned around (something had gone awry with the auto pilot) made a figure eight over the island and then went down. So far as we could later ascertain everyone in the two planes landed safely including the member of the crew who had to jump with an open parachute.
May 15 This morning we were hit by a hurricane and thought for a while that our tent would blow away. It didn't but many other tents on the island did. Our latrine didn't fare so well- it just took right off in the wind. We also lost two of our antennas which were knocked down in the hurrivane. The Japanese city of Nagoya was the object of that big raid yesterday and we learned today that it was practically burned out in a fire raid.
May 16 This evening Agate Base informed us that a small force of 29's was due back from a strike about five a.m. and then another 500 - or - more plane raid due in about 7 a.m.. The weather was going to be bad...Two hours later it really socked in..Low cloud over island... Visibility was less than fifty feet, ceiling zero... Pretty bad...What a morning it is going to be...Everytime we work under weather conditions such as this we stand a poor chance of living throughit.