April 29, 1945 - The Culebra Isle has two monkeys and they and our monkey really had a time. We are missing a D-Day in Borneo by having to come for repairs and I think we are going to get to got to Austrailia instead. We are now in group 23 under LST 1018 and are doing our watch every 3^rd day. We saw another movie tonight.

February 23, 1945 - Lost small monkey over side.

February 9, 1945 - Evening - Saw helicopters, it came out over the water pretty close to us. Got another monkey aboard.

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 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.

January 21, 1945 - Some of the boys traded the natives out of a small monkey.