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Effect of Ship's Daily Routine on Some Sailors

Besides the stress caused from being under enemy attacks, LCI 35 sailors had to contend with other situations that may have affected them even when the enemy wasn't around. Throughout the war, and especially in 1944, the daily routine of cleaning, maintenance, painting, deck duties and preparing for inspections started to take its toll on some of the sailors. Since LCIs offered little in the way of recreation or space to relax, the LCI 35 crew looked forward to time away from the ship when granted liberty.

Even Dad was affected by the daily ship routine, especially since he was responsible for cooking three meals a day for the officers and crew. In some of his letters he occasionally bemoaned the "boring routine" aboard the LCI 35 and the fact that he was "just a cook". It didn't matter or he really didn't realize that a cook was one of the ratings that Commander Lorenzo Sherwood Sabin, Jr. called absolutely essential for good morale on this type of ship. Dad probably wasn't aware that his shipmates considered him a good cook. In conversations with several of Dad's shipmates they really did think he was a good cook who made the most of what he had to work with. A couple of shipmates including John Finnerty and Wally Holman went so far as to say that "he was the only one that could make Spam taste like chicken or steak".

The information that follows continues Dad's story as told in his letters to his sister Mae. A detailed account of the LCI 35's entire chronology can be found here.
















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"...Mae...I can't get home and this ship and type of work is getting me all messed up. Oh, I have fun and can take it but it's the same old thing over and over."

- February 26, 1944
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