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Whoever held 300-ft. Sugar Loaf controlled the western approach to Shuri castle, as well as the eastern flank of Naha, Okinawa's capital city. Leathernecks of Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd's 6th Marine Division assaulted Sugar Loaf nine times, and were four times blown off the crest before they could move down the far side. Hundreds of Japs piling out of caves and tombs were slaughtered by the 6th's tanks...
...Tydings, A.E.F., got down to stronger words: "Think of the men standing on the battlefronts in the dark, learning that back home the great Congress of the U.S. has said that the people at home are doing a good enough job, nobody is to be bothered, a man can loaf if he wants to and there will be no penalty. . . . I think we are cowardly in this Congress, when we read that up to this time 1,000,000 men have been killed, wounded, or are missing, and permit unlawful strikes to take place...
...story of this flattop begins with green young men, many of them unbelievably boyish, endlessly rehearsing their deck and air routines, or loafing in the sunlight as their floating town lounges through the improbable colors of the Gulf Stream and edges her way through the Panama Canal. While they loaf, they wonder. Their destination is still as dead a blank to them as their experience of combat. Then, well out in the Pacific, in some rough, wonderful shots, they meet a tanker and refuel, and know at least that their job is to be long and businesslike...
Waxey admitted that he did loaf around the Worldwide offices. He did put in telephone calls for both companies, "five, six, ten or 15 a day," but said he had worked only for Consolidated. When some caller asked him about surplus property he told them whatever he could...
...like something G.I. Joe had dreamed of but never expected to realize. One veteran of Italian foxholes complained that he could not sleep-the Miami Beach beds were too soft. There were badminton, tennis, golf, shuffleboard, but most soldiers preferred to loaf in the sun. Wives could be brought along for a mere...