OCR Text |
Show Okinawa Strange Invasion Beachhead Never before had I seen an inva- lion beach like Okinawa. J There wasn't a dead or wounded man in our sector of it. Medical corpsmen were sitting among their sacks of bandages and plasma and itretchers, with nothing to do. There wasn't a single burning vehicle ve-hicle Nor "a .single boat lying wrecked on the reef or shoreline, "Tiere was hardly anybody at all on the beach when we landed. The few assault waves ahead of us had pushed on inland. And all that vast welter of people and machines that make a beach hum with work were still many waves behind us. The bulldozers and the jeeps had not yet arrived. There was no activity ac-tivity and hardly any sound. It was almost as though we were the original origi-nal explorers. |