| January 1 |
Arrived last night in San Diego Bay |
| January 2 |
Tied up in San Diego Bay |
| January 27 |
Left San Diego for Frisco this morning |
| January 28 |
Arrived Treasure Isle this evening |
| February 1 |
Left for home of seven days leave |
| February 2 |
Arrived home this morning |
| February 5 |
Tom Cooper and I went hunting out at
Lancaster |
| February 6 |
Rolled Tom Cooper's car over on the way
home from Lancaster |
| February 7 |
Tom Cooper and I went down to [indecipherable] |
| February 8 |
Left home to go back to ship |
| February 9 |
Arrived back at Treasure Isle |
| February 14 |
Left the states for Pearl Harbor at 1600 |
| February 15 |
Really rough today |
| February 19 |
Hell of a way to spend birthday at sea |
| February 20 |
Arrived Pearl Harbor |
| February 21 |
Left for Ellice Islands with troop transport |
| February 24 |
Had first GQ - friendly ship |
| February 25 |
Crossed equator at 2124 o'clock |
| February 26 |
Initiated for crossing equator |
| February 27 |
Crossed International Date Line - lost
this day |
| February 28 |
Arrived Funafuti Island at 1400 |
| March 2 |
Underway this morning for Guadalcanal |
| March 5 |
Arrived Guadalcanal today.Went to Tulai |
| March 6 |
Stayed in Tulai - Had an air raid alert,
no planes |
| March 7 |
Back in Guadalcanal - Left for Espiritu
Santo convoying two merchant |
| March 12 |
Arrived in Espiritu Santo today |
| March 13 |
Went over on the beach for recreation
- fist time on land in a month |
| March 14 |
Went to C/C school at Coconut College |
| March 17 |
Went aboard the Dixie DD Tender for attack
teacher |
| March 18 |
Left Espiritu Santo for Guadalcanal |
| March 20 |
Arrived in Guadalcanal. |
| March 21 |
Saw 5 Jap transports being attacked.
Screened transport unloading supplies |
| March 22 |
Screened the Crescent City |
| March 23 |
Screen Crescent City - escorted her to
Tolugi Harbor. Went aboard and saw John E. Rasor [a
friend of the author on the Crescent City] |
| March 24 |
Underway for Noumea escorting Crescent
City |
| March 26 |
Sort of rough today |
| March 27 |
Arrived Noumea 0730 |
| March 29 |
Went of recreation party, played baseball,
had some beer |
| March 30 |
Went of recreation again |
| March 31 |
Went on liberty in town - bought some
souvenirs |
| April 2 |
Watch army and marines load APA transports |
| April 3 |
Left of Guadalcanal convoying 6 attack
transports |
| April 5 |
Arrived Guadalcanal |
| April 6 |
Screened APA George Clymers |
| April 7 |
Left for Espiritu Santo |
| April 9 |
Arrived Espiritu Santo |
| April 10 |
Left for Guadalcanal |
| April 12 |
Arrived Guadalcanal - Left For Espiritu
Santo |
| April 13 |
Dropped depth charges - nothing came
of it |
| April 15 |
Arrived Espiritu Santo |
| April 16 |
Went out for AA practice |
| April 17 |
Called to help find sub that didn't make
Cantuct |
| April 18 |
Got underway for Guadalcanal |
| April 20 |
Arrived Guadalcanal |
| April 21 |
Left Guadalcanal - escorting two small
aircraft carriers |
| April 23 |
Passes within 17 miles of Jap held territory |
| April 25 |
Arrived in Maneso Isle in Admiralties |
| April 28 |
Underway with carrier for Marshals |
| April 29 |
Saw Fleet 7 Battlewagons |
| May 2 |
Found out Fleet bombarded Truck |
| May 3 |
Arrived in Marshals Mayuro Atoll |
| May 4 |
Left for Guadalcanal |
| May 5 |
Called back to escort ammunition ships
back to Marshals |
| May 6 |
Picked up ammunition ship |
| May 7 |
Arrived Mayuro Atoll with ammo ship |
| May 8 |
Went on beach - just laid around. Left
for Guadalcanal |
| May 11 |
Arrived in Peyia Bay, Flordia Island.
Getting camouflage job for ship. |
| May 16 |
Went over on Flordia Island. Visited
native village - very hard to trade with |
| May 17 |
Complete camouflage job. Left with 3
other DE hunting subs by Bougainville |
| May 19 |
Sank first sub today. 5 runs with hedgehogs.
Bernhart made contact - confirmed as definite sunk |
| May 20 |
Intelligence reports 3 more subs in blockade
of Bougainville |
| May 22 |
At 5:30 AM picked up surfaced sub on
radar - hit him with hedgehogs - cannot confirm sunk
yet |
| May 23 |
6:00 AM picked up surfaced sub (other
DE did). Other DE made 9 runs - never hit once. England
made 3 and sank it. |
| May 24 |
Picked up surfaced sub at 1:30 AM Sank
him in two runs |
| May 26 |
Came alongside carriers & DD to pass
information about subs on way to Admiralties |
| May 27 |
Got 5th sub last night. Picked up on
surface by radar at 11:15 Sunk by 11:45 with hedgehog
pattern |
| May 28 |
Got hedge hogs from Spangler DE in the
Admiralties - left to marshals with 3 other DE. |
| May 29 |
Met aircraft carrier with DD Also hunt
for subs about 200 miles south of Truck |
| May 30 |
Met 2 other DE who had been chasing sub
for 30 hours. England sank sub in 15 minutes after contact |
| June 1 |
Got a report on 3 Jap DD. Went with DD
and carrier looking for them |
| June 4 |
Jap DDs reported to be cruisers instead |
| June 5 |
Had GQ last night - 3 Jap plans about
10 miles away |
| June 6 |
On patrol with carrier and 4 DD and 4
DE |
| June 13 |
Pulled into Treasury Island |
| June 14 |
Left Treasury Island for Purvis Bay |
| June 15 |
Arrived Purvis Bay - 5 days availability |
| June 16 |
Tied along USS Dixie DD tender |
| June 18 |
Went into dry dock |
| June 20 |
Left dry dock - tied alongside Dixie |
| June 29 |
Left for Treasury Islands |
| June 30 |
Arrived Treasury Islands |
| July 1 |
Left Treasury islands for Emiaru |
| July 2 |
On patrol around Jap held New Hanouver
Island 3 miles off shore |
| July 4 |
Arrived Emiaru Island |
| July 5 |
Laying in Hamburg Bay in case Japs try
and evacuate New Hanover |
| July 30 |
Left Emiaru for Mauro to get fueland
supplies |
| July 31 |
Arrived Mauro - ran aground after entering
harbor - 5 hours to get pulled off |
| August 6 |
Left for New Guinea for repairs proceeding
about 8 knots |
| August 8 |
Arrived New Guinea in Milue Bay South
Eastern End |
| September 24 |
Left for Sydney at 1200 from Treasury
Island |
| September 25 |
Rolling like hell - rough weather Coral
Sea |
| September 29 |
Arrived in Sydney Harbor 0700 Liberty
1300 |
| October 10 |
Left Sydney at 1200 for Treasury Island |
| October 15 |
Arrived in Treasury Island this morning.
Left for Hollandia New Guinea |
| October 18 |
Arrived in Hollandia this morning in
company with DE633 Foresan |
| October 19 |
Tied alongside Dobbin DD tender to straighten
shaft |
| October 26 |
Left Hollandia for Leyte Island with
two transports and Foresan |
| October 29 |
Arrived in Leyte Philippines |
| October 31 |
Trade sheets and services for knife and
guys money |
| November 1 |
Left for Hollendia with evacuation transport |
| November 4 |
Arrived in Hollandia |
| November 7 |
Left for Leyte with army tankers making
six knots |
| November 18 |
Arrived in San Pedro Bay, Leyte Island,
Philippines - Japs strafed air strip |
| November 19 |
3 Jap planes made suicide dives on merchant
ships 2500 yards on out beam 1 hit, 2 misses |
