February 2, 1945 - 0400 - Special sea detail - We are underway with 9 LST’s, 2 DD’s, 1Pc, and about 4 transports for Subic Bay. The water is really smooth along here. We arrive in the morning D Plus 4. Our monkey committed Hari Kiri over the side.

January 13, 1945 - We are in a convoy with 30 LST’s, some LSM’s, LCI’s, with sub chasers and PC’s for escort.

June 28, 1944 - In Pacific. Sea seems full of porpoises. It seems like about a million are swimming about the ship. They must like the ship because they all seem to converge around it. They have to up out of the water every once in a while to get air through a hole on the top of their head. This time we are going oit with just three ships and one Watertender. Coming across the Caribbean we had 10 LST’s and 5 P.C.’s. We also had a blimp part of the way across.