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Show I Look Hard for Snakes on Okinawa I've mentioned before about our fear of snakes before we got here. All the booklets and literature given us ahead of time about Okinawa dwelt at length on snakes. They told us there were three kinds of poisonous adders. Well, I've kept a close watch and made a lot of inquiries And the result is that in thp rrntral part of Okinawa where been there J are just practically no snakes at all. Our troops have walked, poked, sprawled and slept on nearly every square yard of the ground. And In my regiment, for one, they have seen only two snakes. One was found dead. The other was killed by a battalion surgeon, coiled into a gallon glass jar and sent to the regimental command post as a souvenir. |