Table of Contents
Prologue ix
Author's Note xiii
1 No Breakfast for the Chief Bruce Creekmur 1
2 A Bizarre Tale of April Fools Edward Hawkins Anderson 11
3 Other Than That, Lieutenant, How Was the Flight? Milton Tally Evans 33
4 No Honors, No Parades Oswald M. "Jac" Smith 49
5 No Foxholes in the Sky Fred Randolf Koval 65
6 An Artilleryman's Short, Happy Flight Ferd Moyse 91
7 The Amphib Sailor Oscar L. Russell 107
8 Just Another Milk Run? Mike Kelly 147
9 Present and Accounted For! Harry Bell 163
10 The Last Blitzkrieg Knox White 177
11 Calhoun 88, Where Are You? Amos S. Pollard 191
12 Grows the Sea into Sliding Mountains Owen T. Palmer Jr. 203
13 Islands E. D. "Dee" Hamilton Joseph H. Irby 215
14 The Diary of Tarao Kawaguchi 259
15 A Long Way to Okinawa Jeremiah J. O'Keefe 269
16 The Home Front 299
Epilogue 309