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[StartQuote] I spent only two or three nights on the base at Dreger. We slept in tents with dirt floors. The first night there the air raid sirens sounded. We sure were not going into a black hole in the ground for shelter not knowing what else might be in there. We felt safer in the tents. The aircraft were usually going after a nearby air strip. Few aircraft were involved. I do not remember maintaining blackout at night. We had nighttime movies. Whenever the sirens sounded, all lights went out and the movie stopped. Later on the boat we tied-up at a shelter built on piers over the water. Most of us slept in the shelter. I do not remember the heat being too uncomfortable. It would have been worse a short distance inland where the base force bunked. At Hollandia and Wadke I believe that we maintained a blackout at night. We had only tenders there. At Mios Woendi I was on the base for about two months awaiting transportation back to the states. Mios Woendi is a small roughly triangle shaped island of less than one mile on each side. There was no jungle after our base and other facilities were built. We may have maintained blackout at night in the early days there. The surrounding water helped maintain a fairly comfortable temperature. It was more comfortable than the days of the summer heatwaves at home in the nineteen thirties, It would be interesting to hear from some of the crew on the tenders. Sleeping below deck the heat was probably uncomfortable at all of the South Pacific stations and the Philippines. [EndQuote]
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