This is where you will find access to actual diaries and transcipts from the USS Gosselin. These documents will allow you to look into the day to day operations aboard an American warship in the South Pacific.

H. F. "Chief" Mills. S1c (SM). A diary kept from S1c Mills from early action in Okinawa to the inevitable surrender in Tokyo Bay. View diary here.

James D. Dixon. S1c. A TBS (Talk between ships) log from 24-25 May 1945 and a diary from S1c Dixon courtesy of Paul Dixon (son).

Walter Howley. Radioman 3c. Howley's recollections of Okinawa, and the surrender and occupation of Japan from a USN radioman's perspective.