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ALSO BY DAVID SEARS
Title Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Portents: Cole and Lindsey
Part One - THE WAR OF BEACHHEADS
Chapter 1 - The Alligator and the Bull
Easter Fools’ Day
Terrible Turner
The ’Canal
The Bull
Chapter 2 - Dark Waters
Full-Dress Armada
Tin Cans
Citizen Sailors
Left Behind
Chapter 3 - Green Hells
The Old Breed
Howlin’ Mad
Murder Holes
Chapter 4 - Forager, June and July 1944
A Lot of Dead Marines
Wanting Checkers, Getting Chess
Without Hope or Higher Purpose
Chapter 5 - The Big Blue Blanket
Morning Launch
Grummans
Lord of Himself
Chapter 6 - Clearing Skies, June 1944
Dare to Die
The Hop Supreme
Chapter 7 - Returning
Fletchers
Little Beavers
Let ’Em Walk
Chapter 8 - Narrow Straits, October 1944
Body Crashing
Surigao
Part Two - THE KAMIKAZE BOYS
Chapter 9 - Becoming Young Gods, October 1944
Off Samar
Dare to Die...Sure to Die
Poster Boy
Now Things Will Start Rolling
Beyond Recognition and Hope
Chapter 10 - To Get In and Get Aboard, November 1944
Bull’s Run
I Can Finish Leyte in Two Weeks, but I Won’t
Defeated by One Lousy Japanese
Chapter 11 - HI-RI-HO-KEN-TEN, November 1944
Elephants Fly
Gods Graduate
Oceans Shake, Dragons Crawl
Earth Turns Toward Heaven
And Cherry Blossoms Fall
In Revenge for 100 Million People
Chapter 12 - Target Paradise, November 1944
Everyone Needs Halsey
The Blue Ghost’s Fourth Life
Cauldron of Sleep
False Starts, Great Triumph
Chapter 13 - Suicide at Its Best, November–December 1944
Phantoms of the Intrepid
Valedictions
Season of Peace
Chapter 14 - The Far Side of Leyte, December 1944
Tune-Ups
Full Day, Empty Magazines
Mindoro’s Allure
Terrible Second
Chapter 15 - The Shadow of Lingayen, December 1944
Ice Candies
Brassville
Frightening, to Put It Mildly
Unrolling the Big Blue Blanket
Chapter 16 - Uncompensated Losses, December 1944
Divine Wind
Small Ships, Big War ...
. . . Bigger Sea
Fighting On
Wind from Below
Dreams of Rescue
Admiral Breaker
Part Three - THE CRUELEST MONTHS
Chapter 17 - Corpses That Challenge the Clouds, January 1945
Under Way for Some More Fighting
Unmatched by Any Other
Get to Manila!
Chapter 18 - From Hot Rocks, February 1945
The New “Old Breed”
Hot Rocks for Flying Castles
Nobody Can Live Through This
Dragons and Fire Trucks
Detachment Days
Chapter 19 - To the Great Loochoo, March 1945
May You Walk in the Ashes of Tokyo
Tale of Two Franklins
Spring Blossoms
Ping and Picket
FIDO Spells Trouble, DELEGATE Is God
Chapter 20 - Far from Ordinary Skies, 1 April–6 April 1945
Kerama Retto
“Hadn’t Even Gotten Our Feet Wet”
Suicide Is Not the Objective
Heaven One
Chapter 21 - A Perfect Day for What Happened, 6 April 1945
Something Bad Coming
So Far from You ...
...and Yet So Close
Chapter 22 - “Delete All After ‘Crazy,’” 7 April–13 April 1945
Get Yamato
The Very Breath of the Hostile Planes
One for the Fool
Fatality in Chief
Chapter 23 - Wiseman’s Cove, 13 April–30 April 1945
Bone Yard
As Fast as You Can
Names on the Tickets
D-Day for Ernie
No Haven on Comfort
Chapter 24 - The Same Tooth, May 1945
Elephants Fall
Calling All Destroyers
May Day, May Day
“It’s Hell up There, Marine”
Face to Face
Until His Prop Brushes Your Whiskers
Chapter 25 - Short of Home, June and July 1945
Past the Meat Grinder
The Formidable Power of One-Hit Sinking
The End of the Island and the End of Our Agony
Essence of Their Mission
Recoveries
Epilogue - Movies on Topside, August 1945–Present
Notes
Glossary
Sources and Acknowledgments
Citations
Roll Call
Copyright Page
Notes
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