About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.

I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.

Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being wasted. Being a minority group militarily, they are proud and sensitive in their dealings with other military organizations. A Marine's concept of a perfect battle is to have other Marines on the right and left flanks, Marine aircraft overhead and Marine artillery and naval gunfire backing them up.

Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.

Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.

Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.