NEW! 1/4/1944 Sunbathing and new ID bracelet

NEW! 1/9/1944 Fannie May candy

NEW! 2/9/1944 Bachelor Officers’ Quarters overlooking Biscayne Bay

NEW! 3/24/1944 "Man proposes. - Washington disposes."

5/5/1944 shin splints and preparing to board ship (from Norfolk, VA)

5/11/1944 Quick letter home from Virginia Beach

6/7/1944 Need shoes and cap!

6/20/1944 Watches and readjustment of sleeping pattern

7/13/1944 days of preparation

7/31/1944 Ice box cookies arrive

8/6/1944 home-on-the-sea and stationery purchase

8/13/1944 Underway

8/21/1944 Long cruise, soft breezes, the division commodore

8/27/1944 Landfall and sea thoughts

8/29/1944 The "gam"

9/2/1944 The Pacific

9/2/1944 Letters as diary, officer's club, jeep escapade, watch cover design

9/6/1944 Dunk in the Pacific

REVISED! 9/9/1944 - 9/18/1944 Ship to shore transport, ship handling oops, and Ancient Order of the Deep initiation

9/22/1944 Back in shorts, the war ballot, hemming

10/5/1944 Autumn, division forming up

10/14/1944 promotion to Lieutenant Senior Grade, my first firearm

10/30/1944 Irregular mail and blue-and-green waters

11/7/1944 Search for survivors

11/13/1944 Swapping case of coca-cola for rubber life rafts, near accident on deck

11/16/1944 Target shooting

11/20/1944 Sub sighted, tears and shearings

11/25/1944 Altercation with a big fish

12/6/1944 Along the dock for repairs, photo of Officers, V-Mail

12/16/1944 Huge batches of mail

12/24/1944 Christmas Eve at sea