The book is finally getting exciting! Mike, Ira, and Harlon were sent to Bougainville and got their first taste of war. Some say it was similar to D-Day and some day it was as closest to hell as you could get with its thick jungle like terrain, heat, bugs, and hidden Japanese soldiers. As i read, i was stunned how horrid this battle must have been. Mike was forced to slit a Japps throat from his "head in command" (he wasn't to happy about that). Ira witnessed countless people around get blown away by mortars and mowed down by machine guns. Harlon was in a spot of the island where there were no Japps. But they got ambushed and Harlon had to fight hand to hand with someone and then kill him. They never met on the island and sailed home in different boats and stayed houses a month after the battle was over. I too, would be horrified if i was in something like that. At this time, Franklin and Rene had just entered boot camp and Jack was being assigned as a medical corpsmen in the Pacific.
This is a picture of Bougainville. Ira, Mike, and Harlon fought on this awful jungle for 2 months and had endure the rough nights. Basically the only goal was to survive.
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