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Fresh eggs for
breakfast. Something must really be going on. They must be
fattening us up for the kill, but we love it. Latest word is that the
158th
Inf. will make a beach landing on Noemfoor. We can't help but have nagging
fears about another dry run. There have been so many. It's like the boy
who kept crying wolf. Fresh pork, fresh potatoes, and cake with cranberry
sauce for lunch. We came back to reality at supper, bully beef patties.
The move back to Ebli Plantation has been postponed until tomorrow. |
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We were up at
0430. Chow at 0445. Policed area. A little later Ed and I were ordered to
report to Col. Britten. He chewed us out and told us to clean up the area
where the officers had been having their smokos. This burned us up. Not
only had we done the cooking, but now we had to clean the area up. We’d not
invite him to eat our cooking again and so on. We really felt like we'd
been treated unfairly, but you know what we did? We cleaned the area up and
forgot it.
About 0700 we moved
by ducks to the Army HQ. and then by LCT's across to Pie
beach. There were only enough trucks to carry Battalion Headquarters and
Headquarters Company, "D" Company, and part of "E" Company. We had two boiled
eggs for breakfast at 0445, so we were soon hungry, We searched in a nearby
Jap dump, but it had been well picked over, so we had little luck. The
trucks returned about 1500 hour. We were not a happy bunch. Then we made
the long, hot, dusty ride to Ebli Plantation. Rice and bully beef were
served for supper. Mail came in. At smoko tonight we pumped
Capt. John Richmond. He was Bn S-3 and had been off on leave, I think,
it was never clear. He did have some information. He told us our
battalion would go in D+3. The enemy strength at this place is
estimated at 2800 troops. Sixteen hundred of these are combat troops.
D-Day is Sunday. The 158th Infantry Regimental Combat Team will land D-Day. The 1st Battalion will jump D+1, 3rd Battalion D+2, and 2nd
Battalion D+3. This will be July 5 (D+3). So this looks like more than a
"supposedly mission." |