Word: jaskilka
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...ward room, over & over again, they kept playing a recording: They'd Better Have Seven League Boots and Invisible Gabardines When They're Foolin' With the Marines . . . Wiry Captain Sam Jaskilka, 30, from Ansonia, Conn., a onetime University of Connecticut basketball star, a Marine veteran who fought through World War II's Pacific campaign, laughed nervously at the song. "I hope the enemy believes that," he said as he sipped a cup of coffee...
Down in the troop compartment housing Sam Jaskilka's Easy Company, the gunnery sergeant, big, bearded Bob Barnett, 29, was sounding off with final instructions: "You people are the leading company for the main assault of this operation...
Loading Time. No one ate very much lunch (a cold salad of macaroni and ham). At 2:45 p.m. the boat teams prepared to go over the side. I joined Captain Jaskilka's people. We stood there waiting for our wave to load into the landing craft. Ours was the third. The first wave was to hit the 9½ ft. sea wall at Inchon at 5:30 p.m. The second wave would be three minutes later. The third wave was to land at 5:40. These first three waves on Red Beach, a tiny plot of ground...
...Heads Down!" "Get 'em ready, gunner," said Captain Jaskilka to Gunnery Sergeant Barnett. His voice was very quiet and calm. Ahead we could see the first and second waves dashing for that forbidding sea wall...