1/6/1945 salt tablets and weight gain
1/14/1945 Diving off ship's fo'c's'tle, Christmas menu, and sister Mary Agnes wins the baby derby?
1/21/1945 The CHROMATE (6 pages), news coverage
2/4/1945 More CHROMATE CHRONICLE (4 pages), catch a parrot fish
2/6/1945 Gustatory delights, prickly heat rash
2/22/1945 Cribbage and valentines
2/24/1945 Underway - COOL BREEZES! Switch of head gear.
3/5/1945 Baker birthday, strike in Detroit, Pacific spectacles.
3/9/1945 How to sleep on deck, Chico, cigars
3/12/1945 Picnic for 70 - PHOTOS
3/19/1945 Garbage duty, in detail, and fueling on the fly
3/25/1945 Irregular mail, getting stores "catch as catch can"
4/16/1945 Thinking of skiing, Thanks for the pea coat, propaganda
4/19/1945 Letter fragment about overnight air raids
4/30/1945 Rumors, hard work, seven weeks asea
5/20/1945 Mass on the flying bridge, meeting an old shipmate
5/22/1945 Answers and questions, good conduct by Carl
6/5/1945 wood whittling, paycheck and crafts
6/14/1945 Flag day, goods and craftwork
6/30/1945 Bud Bangstrom's combat experiences, fueling at sea
7/2/1945 Phanon's death, errant sea bags, unspeakable things (illegible, unfortunately!)
7/3/1945 Carl and coffee cake, Paula's graduation, novel by Lin Yutang, the sonar crew PHOTO
7/9/1945 The watch, the noises, the rising at all hours...
7/11/1945 Mail comments, rust comments and nostalgia for Gravel Lake
7/17/1945 "Rest" in port. A year on the Pacific
8/15/1945 Feast of the Assumption. V-J Day!
8/26/1945 Typhoon Territory. packages and gifts
9/8/1945 Dull days. Losing personnel
9/12/1945 "Sidelights burning bright." Marie marries someone else...
9/19/1945 Snug moor. Stripping ships.
9/21/1945 Trip from here to there (train to Tokyo)
9/30/1945 Bumboats, bull sessions and movies on the foc's'tle
10/5/1945 - 10/19/1945 In port, new pup, a date
10/28/1945 Harbor bound, struck by demobilization, another date (WITH PHOTOS?)
11/22/1945 Turkey Day - HOMECOMING - tie up at Astoria, Oregon
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