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Within three hours after the shock of invading against negligible opposition, a famed Marine regiment walked across Yontan airfield, one of the biggest in Okinawa Gunto, less than 400 miles from Kyushu. Casualties (from halfhearted snipers): very light. Planes could make emergency landings on the airfield now. A few hours of Seabee sweating would make it an excellent take-off point for medium bombers to fly to China, to Japan, to Formosa-all approximately 400 miles distant-and to knock out whatever chance the Japs might have left of shipping anything from the south or southwest to the homeland...
...call him by his first name," to students who wanted to celebrate his goth birthday: "On the eighth of March, 1862 . . . the sloop Cumberland was sunk by the Merrimac, off Newport News. The vessel went down with her flag flying-and when a little later my regiment arrived . . . I saw the flag still flying above the waters. . . . It was a lifelong text for a young man. Fight to the end and go down with your flag at the peak...
...colonel now feels fine, commands his regiment, enjoys a normal sex life. (He is sterile; Dr. Frumkin will not try to connect the delicate sperm-carrying tubules...
Exactly how many Zombies were already in action was not yet known. But it was known that some were attached to the Algonquin Regiment. And when the Regiment was given the job of taking the German village of Veen, the Zombies got their chance. They had to advance over flat farmland, then subdue the German defenders house by house, barn by barn, pigsty by pigsty. It took three days, and one reporter called the battle "a double-header dose of hell." Even after the village was taken, it had to be combed for mines, for it was nastily booby-trapped...
...stalemate was broken The 4th got into gear with the 3rd and 5th. The drive for the north shore was speeded from a slow crawl to a slow march. On the 19th day of the battle for Iwo, a 28-man patrol from Company A of the 21st Regiment (part of Major General Graves B. Erskine's 3rd Division) broke through to the northeast coast and slid down the cliffs to the beach. To General Schmidt, they sent back a canteen of sea water, marked "for approval-not for consumption." To the aid stations they carried back their wounded...