January 28, 1945 - Anchored off San Jose’Mindoro in the Philippines. There is an airfield in front of us and B-24’s are landing and taking off there . The land along the waters edge is flat but there are some big mountains further back. There is a tanker, or what used to be a tanker off of our port bow. It has burned completely up down to the water line. A Jap plane hit it and it exploded some high octane gasoline and then the fuel oil caught on fire and it is still burning. It isn’t anything but a mass of molten steel now. We are to lay over here 4 days and go in D-Plus 5 on the lower part of Luzon.