From Jack Halling

Written from the USS Norman Scott,

Sept. 2, 1945

We are still in the outer bay of Tokyo Bay, patrolling. We’ve met four Jap fishing boats (two at night). Yesterday, one of our pilots went down and we went out to try to find him.

It was storming and was foggy and we never found him. It’s a shame to lose men after the war is over.

… You asked me if there was anything I needed when you send your box and package. Well, the thing I need most of all, I think, is combs. It seems like they are almost impossible to get, for some reason or another.

(Jack Halling died in Idaho 1991).