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everything from only six dead and no servicemen to "hundreds dead with 
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* cent of Anchorage leveled ; Seward in flames; Kodiak and Valdez 
-washed practically off the map." How they mispronounced Valdez, Janeau, 
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Whltehouse, Kenai etc. and how little they know of Alaska. All pwere and 
communication out save for some ham operators, temp down to 7 degrees F, 
gaping holes in downtown streets, houses tumbled into ice-choked 
turhagain, 1,000,000 gal. of jet fuel spilled on Int. Airport runway; 
railroad yards aflame, new cannery at Kodiak gone. 
At 0110 they let us go home after tidal waves only reached 6 to 
7 foot maximums even on north shores though seme of the recessions were 
spectacular. Telegraph no open. 
Sleep does not cam easy. I think of hundreds killed in area 
where I have hundreds of friends, 
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March 28— This morning we visit our ship (my first), meet naval 
Lt . Hawkins, talk, try to get into our storage area. 
later l : go to Red Cross in early afternoon, place telegram to go by 
ham from Seattle to Anchorage (ells) and tell the girl I’m Red Cross 
instructor who’d like to render aid. She ask s am I serous. I assure 
her I am and she takes me upstairs to introduce me to chief, who seems 
less impressed but takes ay name and says they’ 11 call me if they send 
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-Tell Rat when I get back, waking him to do. "Do you think iifa that 
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seyous"? he says. I tell him I think the lives of my friends are of 
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importance. He later agrees and would’ve let me go on my own. I’d thought 
of doing so, of course, but told muself that would be irresponsible. 
After all I’m unauthorized ana probably not needed. Civil defense and 
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