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21 July 1945
That irrepressible Detroit chatter box has designs for another trip - this time to Manila.
A directive has come out making it mandatory for every pilot to get at least one hour of runs and one hour of observation time for GCA. With 600 pilots on this island, day and night fighters, we will be working our sorely pressed rears off. The set will be run almost 15 hours a day and make about 60 runs a day. In addition, five of our men were relieved of GCA duties until the mess hall is finished. Dombey, a controller from the new team, cracked mentally. His confidence is shot and the psychollogist suggest he be relieved from GCA. Ross Thomas cut his hand open open on a beer bottle and Alan Soskin took off for Manila via Guam. All in all the next few days will be interesting and busy. I wish Cap't Jolley wouldcome up here.
28 July 1945
I have skipped seven days since my last entry and for a good reason. Recently I have found myself a slave to this story. Instead of writing things down and doing it at my own bidding I have found that I, the master, have become the slave, and by the same token, the story has become the master. Thus I felt obligated to write something every day whether there was anything to