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shimmering heat waves rise from the runway and we seek shelter from it in the dark. cool recesses of the trailer. At four-thirty this afternoon we started practicing with a couple of PBJ's and after making two approaches turned it iver to the other crew. Jerome arranged to go to Ie Shima via TAG (Transport Air Group, a sort of Marine ATC)…

This evening I saw a very fine movie, "The Corn Is Green" and loaded onto an AACS jeep going back to the area after the show was over...The regulation s and "chicken" is beginning to appear on the island. [[strikethrough]] 1 [[/strikethrough]] 1 uniforms, no mixed stuff, dogtags and everything else... Let them bust me.

13 June 1945
Last night the mosquitoes were out en masse. Seems like I'll have to rig up my mosquito net. However, since I've been using it for a pillow I'll have to dig up something else to take it's place...s. Some packages came in today in the mail but nothing for me... Dick Jurgens and his orchestra due here to play at 2130 hours this Sunday at the Skunk Hollow Theater over at the 386th Air Service Group.. It's too bad there isn't a beach on the island. These warm days are a great invitation to go swimming. And while we are on the subject, the deepest part of the ocean in the entire world