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But the library stalls were still a troop hold, and his fear returned
A whistle blew, startling him”Men for boat-deck fifteen,” a voice shouted down, and one of the platoons started going up the ladderMartinez could feel the tension in everyone around him, the way their voices had become quietWhy could they not go first? he asked himself, hating the added tension which would come from waitingSomething was going to happen to him

After an hour their signal came, and they jogged up the ladder, and stood milling outside the hatchway for almost a minute before they were told to move to their boatThe decks were very slippery in the dawn, and they stumbled and cursed as they plodded along the deckWhen they reached the davits which held their landing boat, they drew up in a rough file and began waiting againRed shivered in the cold women’s rolex watch morning air and the day had already the depressing quality which early mornings always had in the ArmyIt meant they were moving, it meant something new, something unpleasant
All over the ship the debarkation activities were in different stagesA few landing craft were down in the water already, filled with troops and circling around the ship like puppies on a leashThe men in them waved at the ship, the flesh color of their faces unreal against the gray paint of the landing craft, the dawn blue of the seaThe calm water looked like oilNearer the platoon, some men were boarding a landing craft, and another one, just loaded, was beginning its descent into the water, the davit pulleys creaking from time to timeBut over most of the ship men were still waiting like themselves
Red’s shoulders were beginning to numb under the weight of his coco chanel handbags full pack, and his rifle muzzle kept clanging against his helmetHe was feeling irritable”No matter how many times you wear a goddam pack, you never get used to it,” he said
“Have you got it adjusted right?” Hennessey askedHis voice was stiff and quivered a little
“Fug the adjustments,” Red said”It just makes me ache somewhere elseI ain’t built for a pack, I got too many bones He kept on talking, glancing at Hennessey every now and then to see whether he was less nervousThe air was chill, and the sun at his left was still low and quiet without any heatHe stamped his feet, breathing the curious odor of a ship’s deck, oil and tar and the fish smell of the water
“When do we get into the boats?” Hennessey asked
The shelling was still going on over the beach, and the island looked pale green in the dawnA thin wispy line of smoke replica chanel jewelry trailed along the shore”What! Do ya think this is gonna be any different today? I figure we’ll be on deck all morning But as he spoke, he noticed a group of landing craft circling about a mile from them in the water”The first wave’s still farting around,” he reassured HennesseyFor an instant he thought again of the Motome invasion, and felt a trace of that panic catching him againHis fingertips still remembered the texture of the sides of the rubber boat as he had clung to it in the waterAt the back of his throat he tasted salt water again, felt the dumb whimpering terror of ducking underwater when he was exhausted and the Jap guns would not stopHe looked out again, his shaggy face quite bleak for a moment
In the distance the jungle near the beach had assumed the naked broken look which a shelling always gave itThe palm trees would be mulberry bayswater bag standing like pillars now, stripped of their leaves, and blackened if there had been a fireOff the horizon Mount Anaka was almost invisible in the haze, a pale gray-blue color almost a compromise between the hues of the water and the skyAs he watched, a big shell landed on the shore and threw up a larger puff of smoke than the two or three that had preceded itThis was going to be an easy landing, Red told himself, but he was still thinking about the rubber boats”I wish to hell they’d save some of that country for us,” he said to Hennessey”We’re gonna have to live there The morning had a raw expectant quality about it, and he drew a breath, and squatted on his heels
Gallagher began to curse”How fuggin long we got to wait up here?”
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