Saturday

Spent all day working on turret. Boresighting, oiling guns, cleaning ship and loading ship with ammunition. A hard day. Replacing turret dome was rough as it was warped all to hell. Fussed plenty until I remember fussing to Bonnie one night about the Army. Then I chuckled and quit fussing.

Wrote letters to mom, dad, and Bonnie. Listened to radio as I wrote Bonnie. Heard “I Love You”¹ and “Far Away and Long Ago”², two of her favorites. Heard a program entitled G. I. Journal³ with Jack Carson and part of the Zero Hour⁴, Tokyo Rose. She wasn’t doing any bragging today. Possibly because Chinese troops are within an ace of opening the Burma Road.

Read my Bible tonight before going to bed.

Notes & Commentary

¹ “I Love You”, by Cole Porter, was published in 1944: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXIXknT-iQ8.

² “Long Ago and Far Away” was featured in the movie Cover Girl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35VqIqdy5C4.

³ G. I. Journal was a radio variety show broadcast over the Armed Forces Radio Service. To hear examples of G. I. Journal shows, go to http://www.otrcat.com/gi-journal-p-1314.html.

⁴ Zero Hour was a Japanese broadcast to the troops in the South Pacific. Iva Toguri D’Aquino, better known as “Tokyo Rose”, was one of the broadcasters. To hear a sample broadcast of the Zero Hour go to https://archive.org/details/ZeroHour08141944.