Don was running behind a destroyed bunker, when he found a Browning Automatic Rifle. It was laying at the side of a dead Marine. After the Jap gunner was "knocked out" by the infantry, Don "moved forward with them". Crossing a "desert of black sand", they got "under intense bombardment". They reached the first airfield. Bunkers raking their line. They were told by a captain "to set up a continuous fire into every visible gun port." The captain asking Don, if he "knew where to find some bazooka ammo." Don told him that there were a few rounds of it still in his tractor. The captain asked him to go back there and "assigned one of the infantry to help bring it up."
Reaching the tractor after 45 minutes, he climbed in. Trying to lower the ramp, he found it was jammed so he just "threw all the rounds over the side, about 20 in all." The othe soldier grabbing half of them and taking off, Don crawled in checking the radio. "Unable to tune in any orders", he dialed in "to some fine music". A female voice reported their landing on Iwo. It wasn't TOKYO ROSE, but LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE, "probably a stand-in for the much overworked Rose."
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