Hugh Pennington pretends to
reel in a shark! "No mission for today so I lay around all the morning
doing nothing! A plane came down from Morotai but didn't bring any mail as
they were enroute to Biak and Woende Lagoon. Captain Goldberg, Sergeant
Butler and myself went fishing. They were biting good and we caught 8 of
them - had them on a string trailing in the water behind the life raft and a
sand shark followed us in. Sergeant Butler went after a carbine while I
tantalized the shark with the fish - finally shot him and drug him in. He
weight about 100 pounds. Cut him up and had shark steak."
- exerpts from Hugh Pennington's diary -
Saturday, 16 December 1944
(Photo courtesy Javena Pennington) |
