Red Randall at Pearl Harbor by R.Sidney Bowen

Author:R.Sidney Bowen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: world war ii, action hero, pearl harbor, wwii combat, aerial combat, piccadilly publishing, combat action, japanese kamikaze, red randall, rsideny bown
Publisher: Piccadilly

Chapter Eleven – Harada’s Lair

“FOOLISH ONE IS not always foolish!” Harada said softly. “It is well that you have given sensible thought to the words I spoke. If you continue so, you will have no cause for regrets. I have said so, and it will be so. But we have talked enough. Stay right where you are for one moment.”

It seemed that the Japanese was no more than half way through that last sentence when he leaped lightly into the rear cockpit of the Fairchild and settled himself comfortably. Yet, as before, his eyes did not leave Red Randall for so much as a fleeting instant. He nodded and gestured with his gun.

“Hoist your friend up here, and I will hold onto him,” he said. Then baring his teeth in what was supposed to be a leer, he added, “You will understand, of course, one foolish move by you, and I will let your friend Joyce slip off into the air. Then I will kill you and leap to safety with your parachute I wear. Do not be mistaken by what your friend said. No one will ever catch me, no! I could remain on Oahu forever, and no one would ever know. But there will be no need to hide where I will be safe, for by this time tomorrow the Japanese will rule these Islands. So...do as I order! And get into the plane.”

For just one more moment Red hesitated, but it was not because he had changed his mind and intended to disobey the Japanese. It was because he was trying to straighten out some of the thoughts that were passing through his mind. Harada was not worried about remaining on Oahu because of his own personal safety. He was going to Niihau because it must have some connection with his boast that Japanese troops would be swarming over Oahu by midnight. At Niihau was perhaps the key to all that the Japanese was expecting to happen. And perhaps at Niihau Jimmy and he might...

“Do as I order!” Harada’s voice cut into his tumbling thoughts like a knife. “I have waited long enough. Take this airplane into the air, but not too high. Keep low and head first for Kahuku Point. And remember all that I have spoken to you!”

Red groaned under his breath, refused to let his eyes meet Jimmy Joyce’s, and hoisted the youth up to where Harada could grab hold and pull him half down into the cockpit like an awkward-shaped bundle he was going to carry in his lap. As Harada none too gently pulled Joyce down into place, his gun remained very much in evidence, and his wicked eyes remained on Randall. Finally Red climbed into the front cockpit, closed his tear-smarting eyes tight for a moment, and then took a deep breath and forced himself to get on with the task of getting the Fairchild aloft.

He taxied around and down to the shore end of the level patch of ground so

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