Tuesday, January 18, 1944
"We are very definitely in the tropics or semi-tropics. Many of the passengers are busily acquiring a sun tan, the upper deck being the favorite place for its acquisition. Some of us saw our first flying-fish. They are small, and in the sun appear to be silver. They suddenly appear, darting out of the water, and fly a foot or two above the waves for perhaps fifty feet or more. There seem to be about forty or fifty in a school.
"A plane flew over during the morning, Hawaii-bound. Sister [Mary] Raymond [Peplinski] identified it as a bomber. We were not in a position to see, but the Maryknoll Sisters told us there was great activity on the bridge at its approach. At lunch the minister's wife told us that the San Francisco-bound Clipper had also flown over. We heard today that we may arrive Thursday noon. By then we will have acquired so many kinks from sitting in odd positions we won't be able to use the chairs at St. Theresa's."
Memories of Sister Mary Aloysia Dugger (Sister Virginia) of the St. Louis Province of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet who was one of the four Sisters missioned to Hawaii during the war in 1944.
"We are very definitely in the tropics or semi-tropics. Many of the passengers are busily acquiring a sun tan, the upper deck being the favorite place for its acquisition. Some of us saw our first flying-fish. They are small, and in the sun appear to be silver. They suddenly appear, darting out of the water, and fly a foot or two above the waves for perhaps fifty feet or more. There seem to be about forty or fifty in a school.
"A plane flew over during the morning, Hawaii-bound. Sister [Mary] Raymond [Peplinski] identified it as a bomber. We were not in a position to see, but the Maryknoll Sisters told us there was great activity on the bridge at its approach. At lunch the minister's wife told us that the San Francisco-bound Clipper had also flown over. We heard today that we may arrive Thursday noon. By then we will have acquired so many kinks from sitting in odd positions we won't be able to use the chairs at St. Theresa's."
Memories of Sister Mary Aloysia Dugger (Sister Virginia) of the St. Louis Province of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet who was one of the four Sisters missioned to Hawaii during the war in 1944.
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