Month: February 2001

The mortar fire we could see landing on the beach was really much more personal because we could see what it was doing to the poor devils there.  The casualties

As I told you before I think one of my most vivid memories of this whole business will be the awful fatigue.  I was so tired I ached all over

By late morning there were enough places on the beach to land boats.  Bates and I got back in ours and proceeded to do the routine job of beach salvage

Finally daybreak came and after eating a breakfast of canned rations (none of us had much of an appetite) we went back to blue beach to do salvage work  and