D-DAYS IN THE PACIFIC by Donald L. Miller

Author:Donald L. Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER Paperbacks
Published: 1945-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

B-29S ON A HIGH-ALTITUDE MISSION OVER JAPAN (USAAF).

That month the Saipan Hunting Club celebrated the grand opening of its clubhouse, a Quonset hut with a long bar and a few tables and chairs. “The drink of choice that night,” says Robert Morgan, a legendary imbiber, “was Purple Passion, a concoction of 180-proof grain alcohol and grape juice, and light on the grape juice, please.” Two days later, the date of their next mission, “the hangovers had begun to wear off a little.”14

One of the fliers in the Saipan Hunting Club was a twenty-six-year-old published poet named John Ciardi, a gunner who had just arrived on the island. “One of my teachers.” he wrote in his Saipan diary, “used to say that the best possible job for a writer was in the Fire Department—action in concentrated doses with long spells of musing leisure between. This life fits the requirement. I would like, though, to get over a target—even Tokio.”15 Ciardi would not get his wish until December 3, but more than a thousand other crewmen in 111 planes went up with Rosie O’Donnell and Robert Morgan on November 24. They would encounter challenges that autumn afternoon that no one had anticipated.

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