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...Long before dawn of D Day the first wave of Marines was in its boats, the second wave was climbing down the nets in half-moonlight. At 5 a.m. the sky lit up like the crack of doom: battleship guns were pounding Betio. Soon light and heavy cruisers joined the concert of inferno. Ashore, flames spurted hundreds of feet high. Surely, the Marines thought, mortal men could not stand such pounding...
...modern England as "a professional soldier with a laugh like a horse with whooping-cough" dismounted from his horse after Waterloo after 18 hours in the saddle, was nearly killed when the horse kicked, and was cheered by his wounded men as he passed them in the ghostly moonlight. Later, at his headquarters, whenever the door opened he looked up quickly, thinking it might be one of his missing officers. After Waterloo he said, "The hand of God has been over me this day," and went...
While the Jap was looking the other way, an amphibious U.S. force steamed by moonlight around Jap-held Kolombangara, landed at dawn on Vella Lavella's south eastern shore. Captured were some 350 surprised Nips, an unheard-of number of prisoners in the South Pacific. Other Japs fled into the jungle...
Dealing with the rivalry between the godly Baptists, the paganlike Pilgrims, Run Little Chillun climaxes Act I with orgiastic Pilgrim rites by moonlight, Act II with a pandemonious Baptist revival meeting. At both gatherings everybody sings like mad, but the voodoo-haunted Pilgrims' chorus is no match for the well-harmonized hysterics of the yea-sayers...
...seems that several of New England's frustrated civilians did not enjoy seeing Navy men walk hand in hand with their wives and/or girl friends--or perhaps reposing in the moonlight, as relaxation after studying...