The weeks of passage to Saipan were uneventful. During the days Raymond, Bradley, and Louie sat on deck making recon reels, which were large, empty bean cans around which they wrapped several hundred feet of line, every ten feet marked with a knot. “Enough practice already,” Bradley said one day. “Time for the game to start.”
Dog Day was set for June 15, 1944, and the frogmen began their reconnaissance operation the day before along the beaches at Charan Kanoa. Kauffman divided UDT Five into several divisions and made Bradley the leader of one of them. Raymond and Louie were in Bradley’s division but they were on separate two-man teams. Their division was assigned the underwater reef off the beach called Green Two, which curved out to Afentna Point. Raymond and his teammate were given the
