They were perhaps forty feet long, ten feet wide,... They were perhaps forty feet long, ten feet wide, shaped like open shoe boxes with a motor at the rearIn the troop well, the waves made a loud jarring sound beating against the bow ramp, and already an inch or two of water had squeezed through the crevices and was sloshing around the bottomRed gave up the effort to keep his feet dryTheir boat had been circling for over an hour and he was getting dizzyOccasionally a cold fan of spray would drop on them, shocking and abrupt and a trifle painful
The first wave of soldiers had landed about fifteen minutes ago, and the battle taking place on the beach crackled faintly in the distance like a bonfireIt seemed remote and insignificantTo relieve the monotony Red would peer over the side wall and scan the shoreIt still looked untenanted from three miles out but the ornament of battle was there -- a thin foggy smoke drifted
big chanel along the waterOccasionally a flight of three dive bombers would buzz overhead and lance toward shore, the sound of their motors filtering back in a subdued gentle rumbleWhen they dove on the beach it was difficult to follow them, for they were almost invisible, appearing as flecks of pure brilliant sunlightThe puff their bombs threw up looked small and harmless and the planes would be almost out of sight when the noise of the explosions came back over the water
Red tried to ease the weight of his pack by compressing it against the bulkhead of the boatThe constant circling was annoyingAs he looked at the thirty men squeezed in with him, and saw how unnaturally green their uniforms looked against the blue-gray of the troop well, he had to breathe deeply a few times and sit motionlessSweat was breaking out along his back
"How long is this gonna take?" Gallagher
borse fendi wanted to know"The goddam Army, hurry up and wait, hurry up and wait
Red had started to light a cigarette, his fifth since their boat had been lowered into the water, and it tasted flat and unpleasant"What do you think?" Red asked"I bet we don't go in till tenIt was not yet eight o'clock
"Listen," Red went on, "if they really knew how to work these kind of things, we woulda been eating breakfast now, and we woulda got into these crates about two hours from now He rubbed off the tiny ash which had formed on his cigarette"But, naw, some sonofabitchin' looey, who's sleeping right now, wanted us to get off the goddam ship so he could stop worrying about us Purposely, he spoke loud enough for the Lieutenant from the communications platoon to hear him and grinned as the officer turned his back
Corporal Toglio, who was squatting next to Gallagher, looked at Red"We're a
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"Listen," Brown said, "they ain't a time when I wouldn't rather be on that shipI think it's a hell of a lot safer
"I looked into this," Toglio protested"The statistics prove you're a lot safer here than any other place during an invasion
Red hated statistics"Don't give me any of those figures," he told Corporal Toglio"If you listen to them you give up taking a bath 'cause it's too dangerous
"No, I'm serious," Toglio saidHe was a heavy-set Italian of about middle height with a pear-shaped head which was broader in the jaw than the templeAlthough he had shaved the night before, his beard darkened all of his face under his eyes except for his mouth, which was wide and friendly"I'm
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"You know what you can do with them," Red said
Toglio smiled, but he was a little annoyedRed was a pretty good guy, he was thinking, but too independentWhere would you be if everybody was like him? You'd get nowhereIt took co-operation in everythingSomething like this invasion was planned, it was efficient, down to a timetableYou couldn't run trains if the engineer took off when he felt like it
The idea impressed him, and he pointed one of his thick powerful fingers to tell Red when suddenly a Jap shell, the first in half an hour, threw up a column of water a few hundred yards from themThe sound was unexpectedly loud, and they all winced for a momentIn the complete silence that followed, Red yelled loud enough for the whole boat to hear, "Hey, Toglio, if I had to depend on you for my safety, I'd a been in hell a year
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