Wayne's Journal

Tuesday

A long day and lots of sack time. My nerves have relaxed a great deal. Food is good here. Our pilots flew to Guadalcanal and brought back eight bottles of beer for each man in the combat outfit. All men have been drinking it with hilarity. Poker games have been going for the past several days.

The allies in Europe have cut off Cherbourg Peninsula¹.

No more news as to our transfer to Stirling, the “H” planes and 100th Squadron.

Stayed in the sack wrote letters. June 20th, nothing of great import occurred. I am still awaiting a move or a rest leave.

We are progressing favorably at Saipan. In the next 30 days we’ll see a hell of a lot of fighting. See if I’m not correct in this assumption.

Notes & Commentary

¹ American infantry units reached the west coast of the Cotentin Peninsula on 18 June. The Germans, though, had thoroughly wrecked the Port of Cherbourg. Battle of Cherbourg. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cherbourg : accessed 18 June 2014).

The American forces found large caches of V-1 flying bombs within the Cotentin Peninsula as well as V-2 rocket launch facilities. Zaloga, Steven J. and Hugh Johnson. German V-Weapon Sites 1943-45. London: Osprey Publishing, 2008. pp. 21-24.