January 27, 1945 - Passing Panay all day. Morning - got Bogie report, but 4 of our planes went up to intercept it and it never got over us. Noon - Got a report of another Bogie, but it never got to us either. Night - Passing Cuyo Island to port. We have 2 monkeys and about 4 big dogs on board this trip. The Army has a bigger monkey than we have and they also have the other dogs. We are due at Mindoro early tomorrow.

December 27, 1944 - Hit the beach and loaded up with 13 LVT’s, 4 General Sherman tanks, 2 catepillar tractors, 1 large craneon tank deck. Also, one side of the tank deck was loaded with all kinds of ammuntion and mortar shells. At the back we had about 50 drums of high octane gasoline and some other food supplies. On the top deck we had one Piper Cub dismantled in a truck. We also had about a dozen trucks and trailers - two of the trailers had quad mount 50 caliber machine guns on them. We also have a field 40mm and over 700 officers and infantry men.