February 28, 1945 - Evening - Got underway for Biak. I heard today that one of those large peaks that you can see on Halamahera is an active volcano. There are around 20,000 Japs on Halamahera.

Sept 18, 1944 -

• 0515 Morning- General quarters.
• 0900-Arrived Morotai. We have complete control of the part of the island where we are. We could see planes about a couple of miles off bombing. One fell about 500 yards from us. That was the closest we came to any resistance at all. Morotai is only about 12 miles from Halmahera. You can see Halmahera real good from Morotai. Americans dropped about 210 tons of bombs on Halmahera today.
• 1100- Beached and started unloading supplies. There was a few anti aircraft and demolition bombs going off about all day.
• 630pm. Retracted from beach. Started back for Halmahera with an LCI in tow. Morotai had 2 light air attacks right after we left.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Morotai

Sept 17, 1944 - Evening- Sighted Halamahera. Due to beach at Morotai in the morning.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Morotai

Sept 13, 1944 - Started early morning for Hollandia to meet other parts of task force. Arrived off Hollandia in early afternoon. Went on to another place off New Guinea and met some more task force. We are going to Morotai near Halmahera in the Moluccas group. We are going to land the third day (18th). D-Day is 7 o’clock local time Sept 15. They are going to hit Palau at the same time.