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The GCA school has been moved from Ft. Dix, Air Base, to Columbia, S.C., and a new system has been instituted there.  As far as he knew we were the only team in the Pacific Area to have landed planes tactically. (Incidentally, we have been credited with landing about 44 planes and saving the lives of about 350 men.)  Guam is out for quite some time now - Cap't Jolley didn't feel it wise to send in a new crew and a new officer at the same time.  As we had guessed, the injury to Lt. Spence had cancelled plans for rotating us.  Bob Milne, one of the men we left at Honolulu, is expected out here soon.

We had a bright moon; this will be an annoying week...Probably an air raid every night...Two bottles of beer made me sleepy so I hit the sack early.

About 1 a.m. the rise and fall of the air-raid siren woke me.  We headed for the wonderful air-raid shelter the Japs had unwittingly left us, a concrete pillbox near where we had placed the antenna for VHF set #4.  Over a nearby receiver we could hear Agate vectoring the Black Widows.  Flash red, control yellow was announced and the big ack-ack opened up almost immediately.  Light flickering fingers of flame punctuated the night sky.  Instead of going into the shelter, we stood outside watching the probing fingers of several searchlights and cheered as the guns around the island sent up a terrific barrage.  I didn't see it but some