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That day and all night B-29's went winging their way toward Japan. It was estimated that 1300 B-29's had gone out. It was the last strike of the war for them.

13 August 1945
After a sleepless night I changed my mind about delaying the tooth extraction. The other fellows went down to ICOM were cleared there, received a #3 priority from TAG and all of them took off for Saipan at noon. My priority was to remain at the TAG office until I am well enough to follow.

The doctor was called in on my case - my face was beginning to look like the baseball which has gone to the well too often.

13 August - 17 August 1945
These last few days have been spent at the infirmary where I have been on a sulfa diel plus about a dozen other drug on the last day, after the infection, the tooth was pulled.

18 August 1945
Everything happens to me. I have developed what is called a trismus - a partial paralysis of the facial muscles not unlike lockjaw not uncommon after a wisdom tooth is pulled. I can open my mouth only ah...this...much. It means staying here a few more days.

Team Seventeen got word late tonight they'd be leaving for Okinawa tomorrow. A plane was being sent