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arrived from Guam. One of them told us that GCA on Iwo, that's us - was well known throughout the Pacific. The link trainer boys are up here to indoctrinate the pilots in GCA procedure. About 600 fighter pilots will get to fly GCA in Iwo within the next several months.

  I have been eating only two meals a day recently. The thought of sweating out a chow line in the afternoon sun is usually too much to take. Hence about nineo'clock in the [[strikethrough]]afternoon[[/strikethrough]] evening I usually get hungry and raid the foodstuffs I received from the States.  Chocolate snaps and tuna fish washed down with a coke is one of the bizarre combinations I've conceived.

16 July 1945

  One of the most difficult jobs in radio is trying to fix a complicated mechanism such a modulator unit when there are several things wrong with it. The modulator unit is not an intricate circuit but it's complexity is occassioned by the many relays which it contains.  I've worked on the damn thing for almost a week and, although it would be easier and perhaps more practical to turn the entire modulator unit in for a new one, I was determined to fix it if it took all year. Tonight I stripped it down completely, replaceda defective transformer, substituted two new tubes, changed