Original sentence: Following his commissioning, Fiedler was assigned to Pearl Harbor as a translator of intercepted intelligence in 1943.He transferred to the flagship of the fleet sent to engage the Japanese at the Battle of Iwo Jima as an intelligence officer primarily responsible for POW interrogations in 1944
Edited sentence: Following his commissioning, Fiedler was assigned to Pearl Harbor as a translator of intercepted intelligence in 1943; listless from the banality of his assignment, he transferred to the flagship of the fleet sent to engage the Japanese at the Battle of Iwo Jima as an intelligence officer primarily responsible for POW interrogations in 1944