November 18, 1944 - Uneventful. Cruising along with 35 LST’s, 1 LCI, 1 DD, 1 DE, 2 Frigates, and 7 Liberties.

Sept 25, 1944 - Left Aitape for Morotai. Passing New Guinea all morning. Evening. Passed Hollandia. Picked up two more LSTs making eight LSTs, three destroyers and a DE in our convoy. Will probably pick up more ships at Maffin Bay. Two ships cut through our convoy and we liked to have had a collision. We also liked to have run into one of the LSTs in our convoy.

August 8, 1944 - There is a lot of ships in the harbor. Mostly transports and cargo with a few destroyers and DE’s.