The latter came as a result of one our boats taking in a load of Hormel canned chicken.  Some of it got spilled out during the unloading and enough cans

The Jap aim was poor and apparently their launching device was very crude, perhaps the whole device was crude.  Anyhow the damned things would go up in the air leaving

Our boat crews (26 of them) during all this time were giving a grand account of themselves and while we lost a few boats we didn’t lose any men.  They

I spend the third night in Jack’s boat because I had to send mine back to the ship for repairs and couldn’t find it when it returned because of the

The mortar fire we could see landing on the beach was really much more personal because we could see what it was doing to the poor devils there.  The casualties

As I told you before I think one of my most vivid memories of this whole business will be the awful fatigue.  I was so tired I ached all over

By late morning there were enough places on the beach to land boats.  Bates and I got back in ours and proceeded to do the routine job of beach salvage

Finally daybreak came and after eating a breakfast of canned rations (none of us had much of an appetite) we went back to blue beach to do salvage work  and

By the time the last boat was off the beach and was straightened away for home it was beginning to get dark and then came the very unwelcome word that

There was enough room however and our boat coxswains used perfect judgement in picking their landing spots.  Out poured the troops and the boats began backing off the beach.  Jack