Sun. Oct. 29, 1944
Kay:
I slept in my sack last night for the first time since Oct. 17th.
“Sack” was slang for bunk. If the crew wasn’t sleeping in their bunk, they would be sleeping at their guns.
Rained most of the night
Air attack at daybreak – repulsed by Air Combat Patrol.
The fuselage of a Jap plane with the pilot sitting in the green-house, afloat about 200 yards to our port bow. The pilot refused to be taken aboard our destroyer. The destroyer opened fire on the plane with 20 m.m. and the plane caught fire. Flames at least 30 yards high and throwing a fury of black smoke up in the air about 100 yards.
A downed Japanese bomber.
Hurrah! Ammunition lighter along side. First four divisions load ammunition. After about an hour and a half the lighter shoved off’. How much ammunition did we get? .
Ammunition Lighters were specialized cargo ships that carried and transferred ammunition.
