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Wednesday 28 April

118th Day, 247 Days to come

Big day today. 0600 - 1045 raid on Lolabinauri. Repeated this afternoon. My hind end is absolutely
numb. SBDs & TBFs bombed the hell out of everything; but I think we will have to attain final
objective by fighter sweep. The Japs certainly are good at camouflage. Air Raid warning this
evening - False.

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NOTE: Japanese engineers built the entire runway beneath palm tree tops which were suspended
from cables strung from the live palms lining the runway. Very effective until the cut tree tops
began to turn brown, though by then they were mostly finished.

They flew 2 missions in 1 day, that's why his ass is sore.

The next fields are Ballale, then Kara, then Kieta, then Bonis. All are FAR away though. 2 missions in one day... Hmmm.

Wonder if there were any that were barely started before being wrecked, and since they never got even to the point of being emergency strips, they are not mentioned.

tater