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...480th met the Germans most often at "Coffin Corner," 700 miles off the coast of Spain, where the U-boats surfaced to charge their batteries. The A.A.F. and their comrades of the R.A.F. Coastal Command believed in hitting the sea wolves before they ganged up in packs. At Coffin Corner the 480th fought Germans under the sea and on the surface, also had to fight them in the air. For Junkers 88s and Focke-Wulf 200s patrolled the hunting grounds, first in pairs, finally in formations of eight...
...Death at Coffin Corner. Happiest hunting was in July, when the Germans struggled to halt the flow of reinforcements for the invasion of Sicily. In nine days at Coffin Corner, twelve attacks on submarines were made, three in a single day. Eight U-boats were sunk or damaged...
When they buried Uncle Kim the coffin was covered with a flag. "I had been to one or two funerals before, but I had never seen one like this funeral. . . . The grass felt soft and warm to my bare feet and the little puddles of sand were hot enough to burn my toes. . . . 'Trouble, trouble, trouble,' Grandpa whispered. . . . 'Man born of woman is full of trouble.'. . . The wind lifted Grandpa's white corn-silk beard up and down.... He was bent like an old tree weighted down with branches. . . . Uncle Mott's face...
...Uncle Kim's first cousins lifted the big black coffin to their shoulders. "My kinfolks . . . walked in the procession behind with their arms around their girls' backs. ... It was the greatest bit of excitement that I had ever seen, just to walk in the great procession and hear the people laugh and talk. . . . Before we had gone far up on the mountain, Brother Baggs . . . said: 'Brothers and sisters, let us sing Beulah Land!' If you don't think it's hard to climb a mountain and sing, you try it one of these days...
...They lifted the coffin over the grave hole while Grandpa pulled the flag from over the coffin. They lowered Uncle Kim down into the mountain earth to the bottom of his shallow grave. . . . Now the great procession of people moved down the mountain faster than they had climbed...