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the top of a ridge, the next day the SeeBees had [[?]] cut across the road and scooped a ten or fifteen foot break in the road. Everyone knew about it it seems but Spence. That night he drove confidentall across the top of the ridge on the road and dropped off into the cut, falling about twenty feet with the jeep. Lately roads never seem to be in the same place from one day to the next.

The fighters returned to the central airstrip, Walnut Field, after a small fighter strike at Japan... The fighters put on an airshow for a visiting general, Giles I believe, who visited the island to see how things are going here. He also passed out a few medals.

12 June 1945

I had the set all fired up a ready to go at three am in preparation for a few practice runs with Blue Patrol of the night fighters. However, the night was so clear that, had they chosen to, they could have landed by the light of the stars alone. It has been this way for almost a week - the nights I mean. They are so beautiful that to attempt to do them full justice by words alone would be of the sheerest impertinence. Like last night. The air was so clear and the stars so numerous it was almost painful to the eyes to look up. The soft cool breeze from the ocean was the caress of a loving

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[[?]] used to indicate an unreadable x'd out strike-over.