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...kamikazes roaring out of the blue like the thunderbolts that Zeus hurled at bad actors in the days of old." And to take Iwo Jima as a perch for fighters escorting B-29 attacks on Honshu, the Navy's land-fighting arm fought what General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith called "the most savage and the most costly battle in the history of the Marine Corps...
Well, he left him standin' there howlin...
...corps invariably refer to him as a "real, old-fashioned Virginia gentleman." The phrase is trite but true-it is easy to visualize him in the grey of the Confederacy. With his quiet, tidewater accent, he has little of the flamboyancy of such barnacled Marines as Holland ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, Lewis B. ("Chesty") Puller, and Graves ("The Big E") Erskine...
...others are there, too--Albert the Alligator, Porky, who "don't like anybody 'cept one crittur whom I dislikes less than most," Churchy la Femme, Howlin' Owl, Deacon Mushrat, the Rackety Coon Chile, and the rest of the too-human animals that people the South's fairest swamplands...
...betrayals, An Army in Exile. U.S. big brass, hounded by publishers and eager ghostwriters, combed memories, diaries and official records to get their stories on the record. Hard-boiled Major General Claire Chennault had a field day with U.S. blundering in China in Way of a Fighter, and General "Howlin' Mad" Smith lashed out at high-level boners in his story of what happened to his marines in the Pacific. General "Hap" Arnold's yarn-spinning Global Mission was twice too long but important for any student of the war in the air. Blunt, down-to-earth...