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Up two nw tents. This may turn into the Iwo Jima Technical Training School for GCA.... B*29's out on another raid tonight. 
29 June 1945

B*23'S fire bombed several unpronounceable and unspellable Jap Cities, some targets visually others by radar. The 21st Bomber Command announced that one B-29 failed to return. He dived into the ocean off Iwo on his way up from the Mariannas. I don't know the reason.

The fighters were unable to take off today against Japan because of the bad weather either between here and the mainland or over the Japanese mainland itself.

I intend to talk myself into a ride on a B 17 one of these days and go to Japan to see what it looks like. If we are shot down I may end up returning to Iwo in an American Submarine. That should be interesting.

My cot finally gave up the ghost, ripped completely and spilled me out on the floor. I've slept on the floor before but not when I didn't have to so I helped myself to a new cot which was in a pile down near Purple Beach.

We made a couple of nightfighter runs and the trailer was jammed with new GCA fellows who are up here to pick up a few pointers before going out on their own. They hadn't been in a unit for the months and are