6 Jul 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

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Heavy rain early morning.

The No. 43 very prominent in dreams last night.

Showery.

Brick-work & wood chopping.

News excellent. Japs getting hot in Bonin & Saipan Islands. Several hundreds of plane. Germans driven west of Podolsk & Minsk (4th) & Germans evacuated positions in Normandy. Everyone very optimistic now.

No rations or Canteen gear arrived.

Eggs Y2.65 3/1d each & bananas 65sen 10d each.

Yap raided 4th.

Wind to the E pm.

With Steve pm. He is much better today.

Foster very ill. Typhus?

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