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Clear night tonight. We might have an air raid.

11 June 1945

Nope, no air raid last night. We were on the alert before noon should any of the PBJ ships want to work us but nothing turned up... I slept a few hours this afternoon and awakened before supper. We had some unidentified steak for the mal but it was pretty good nonetheless.

This evening we visited Spence at the 41st Field Hospital. He had a rump - to - neck cast on and was bent over backwards. He was fairly cheerful in spite of his broken back andinsisted that the team autograph his cast... He read aloud a letter from Cap't Jolley who wrote that one GCA unit is on Ie Shima (where Ernie Pyle was killed) and another unit on the island of Okinawa. One unit had been damaged while being unloaded and the other had picked up quite a bit of shrapnel. On one of these units, I forget now which one it was, the chief radar technician is being returned to the rear area because of war nerves. That explains why Johnny Jerome received orders to proceed to Oki. He mentioned nothing about our team going to Guam so I guess that lets that out...

The SeeBees continue to change the face of the island. Matter of fact that's the way Spence got hurt. Where one day there was a road running across