May 16-19, 1944 - Messed around at New Orleans and two or three miles up and down the river from New Orleans and Algiers getting the ship fit for sea. Put up mast and so forth. Rene got sick and had to be transferred.

May 15, 1944 - Arrived in Algiers just across the river from New Orleans. It is a nice looking place even if we are tied up next to the Navy barracks.