A Captain of the Gate by John Birmingham

Author:John Birmingham
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2010-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

We know from McKinnon’s own unfinished autobiography that he was not a commander who played favorites with his men. Although there were three men in the second platoon with whom he had fought since the Battalion’s first operations in New Guinea, he was no more mindful of their safety or care that he was of the freshly minted privates who had joined the platoon straight out of basic training, two days before the Division shipped out for Downfall. In a letter written to his mother on the eve of the invasion, McKinnon worried more about his untested charges and what might befall them in the meat grinder of Tokyo.

‘It would be such a terrible shame, Mom,’ he wrote, ‘if anything were to happen to those kids this late in the game. I just don’t know that I could forgive myself.’2

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