Block night lecture scheme introduced
Ian Heath
Diary pages from this date
Cold, overcast, NE wind. Cleared up & sun came out forenoon.
Water on.
Cleaned bricks, woodchopping.
“Normandie” being converted to A/C carrier & will then serve in Pacific. ((There had been plans to convert the liner Normandie to an aircraft carrier but they were dropped. In 1942 the ship had caught fire and capsized. It was never restored to operation, and was scrapped soon after WW2. Source: Wikipedia))
Played crib with Mrs Brown aft. ((MW Brown?))
Lorry arrived 7.15pm with canteen gear.
US 9th & 1st Army connect in France & make advances around Linnich, Julich & Duren. Leyte news as usual, nothing but defeats, setbacks & sinkings, sez them! Planes around again pm. Reconnaissance no doubt. Tokyo & Yokohama bombed 3rd Dec.
Handed in rubber shoes for exchange.
J. Channing (Police) arrested, but afterwards released, for alleged selling of rice outside barbed wire.