April 17, 1945 - Retracted from beach. Noon - Departed from Sansapor for D-4 invasion of Mindanao in the Philippines Islands.

April 16, 1945 - Beached at Sansapor to pick up colored Engineer troops and equipment. Boy this place sure is deserted since we were here last. On the island, where all the planes used to be, there are none at all now. They used to be planes flying around every time you looked up and now you hardly ever see any. On shore there is also a big decrease of men and equipment.

April 10, 1945 - Arrived at Sansapor New Guinea.

February 21, 1945 - Night - At Biak - We are still underway circling island to come in from the South. Can see New Guinea in the distance. Biak looks about like islands off of Sansapor. 2245 - Got change of orders, heading for Sansapor.

December 30 - Left Sansapor at 1600 with 70 ship convoy. We are in task unit 78.5.5.

December 21, 1944 - Arrived at Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea. Evening - beached, taking on LVT’s (alligators) and infantry troops of the First Division 164^th Infantry 6^th Army. We also got a load of mortar shells and high octane gasoline. The surf here on the beach is really rough. I went in swimming and it threw me around like I was nothing.

December 17, 1944 - Departed Hollandia for Sansapor.

October 11, 1944 - Left Sansapor Dutch New Guinea for Hollandia Dutch New Guinea.

October 3, 1944 - Still at Sansapor - saw lightening crash in water by the landing strip. Took my first swim in saltwater. Had air raid but never saw any enemy planes.

October 2, 1944 - 0330 An enemy plane flew over our convoy but was gone before we got a chance to fire at it. Morning. Arrived at Sansapor New Guinea. There is a lot of planes here. The most we have seen since we have been in the Pacific. They have an airstrip on an island just across from us. This was the most advanced base we had before we took Morotai and Palau. We are going to be here some time.