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Chocolate Drop, a 130-ft. reddish-brown mound, was another tough obstacle on the way to Shuri. For six days the 77th Infantry Division fought seesaw battles for the top, and finally won it. The Japs also counterattacked Conical Hill and clung to positions on the south slope, barring access to the west coast port of Yonabaru. On the east coast, Marine patrols found Naha a stinking, corpse-littered ruin...
...spearhead force sped down the slope to the bridge entry. There was a flurry of shooting. A German gun was knocked out, some German soldiers killed. Then, warily, some of the Yanks ran onto the bridge. There was an explosion. A guard had touched off one of the charges. But it did little damage. More Americans raced on, seized two Germans on the bridge. Then the Americans were across. A few Germans fled to a tunnel piercing a hill. A few surrendered...
...western, drier side of the island, and captured fields were swiftly repaired and improved for Allied use. One at Valencia, in the Ormoc corridor, was put to use the day after capture. Now it could be told that airfields built at Burauen and Dagami on the wet, eastern slope had been abandoned after a month of struggle against rain and mud. It was because of this setback that the Japs had enjoyed temporary superiority over Allied land-based air forces, and the U.S. Third Fleet had to be held off the islands to make up the deficit...
...second, seemingly without warning, we were on the top of the earth dyke looking straight down into the canal, while the boat crews were hurling their boats down the steep slope into the water. As they hit the water, the Scottish sergeant in charge yelled: "O.K., me lads-who is for th'other side-a bob a ride, a bob a ride." And then we were paddling frantically-except for the two who missed their footing and were being dragged out of the icy water. The disgusted sergeant cursed them heartily, but everyone on the boat laughed-a little...
Here, even more than in the town, there was the feel of autumn quiet. People walking up the slope to the grave stirred fallen leaves. Mrs. Willkie stood quietly beside her son, and her husband's brothers, Fred and big Ed Willkie. When the coffin was lowered she took one quick step toward the grave. Then, slowly, with the family group, she walked away down the knoll. The crowd left. Wendell Willkie, who had discovered that the world was one, was back home in Indiana...