Still sailing South – still in Japanese waters headed for Australia – should make it in about a week or ten days, they say. I

Sunday! Father Shanhan is holding mass in the main saloon – that’s also the operating room. They have a table set up there. It’s right

Boy, it’s hot! Lt. Byers (he’s from the New Mexico Anti-Aircraft outfit) just came in, also Doc Angell and Lt. Heuget of the 20th Group.

My leg is really “going to town.” So is Passanante’s. So between the two of us, we are getting some attention. He is really in

We are slowing down. The boys say we are waiting for a Dutch boat with a pilot, to take us into a port in the

We’re still tied to the dock. Mr Williams, the Red Cross man, says he’s trying to get a call through to Darwin in Australia, to

Still in Macassar. Wish we’d get going.

Thought we would go today, but no soap. Byers can speak Dutch and he’s really giving the Dutch a good time and he’s King now.

Shoved off at last. A Dutch cruiser takes us through the mine fields. The boys say it’s pretty around here. I hold my mirror up

Hager was in today. He’s shot through the hip and thigh; also Hylton and Hinson. It is a League of Nations on this boat. Hagen

Boy, it’s hot, and no water – not even for a sponge bath – and I’m beginning to smell like Hell and the cast is

Left Darwin and going to try for another port in Australia. Not too much enthusiasm on boat now, although we’re doing the best we can

Whistle blowing like Hell and alarm bells ringing. Someone just threw two life preservers at me, saying the ship is on fire – we’re about

Terrible weather! Lying naked except for cast. There are twenty-eight boards on each of the three walls of the cabin. I haven’t counted the nails

We are crossing the Northern tip of Australia. They say the water is a little rough. Most of the Filipinos that are nurses, etc. are

They tell me that we’re stopping at Thursday Island to pick up a couple of pilots to take us through the Great Barrier Reef. Our

Tried to eat, but heaved it all up , so it’s back to the beef broth – chocolate diet. Pass’ has a lot of guts.

Townsville is a small town, they say, and hard to dock in, but we have to get supplies and clean linen. Lt. Colonel Maitland, whom

Taking on supplies and medicine, also clean linen. We can get a sponge bath now, and good, fresh water which will keep. Hope the food

Getting cooler now, thank Heaven! Food still terrible to me, although there’s lots of the others eating it. This kid Stevens, our orderly, would eat

The sea is a little rough today. Most of the Filipinos are in their bunks. I thought they were better sailors than that. The trip

Arrived at Brisbane, Queensland, and we got some ice cream and milk. I drank two imperial pints. I don’t think anything ever tasted as good.