Chapter 3
Storm the airfield
Peleliu Island September 15th 1945:
Roebuck (Diary): "We're all crushed by Sullivan's death. It came like a flash, the greatest most courageous marine we've ever known, is now gone forever, now it's down to me and me alone to lead these men, my brothers, safely through this, our assault is taking the Japanese down, but their planes are still flying high, we need to take them out".
The marines were moving slowly through a swamp, the water slowing them down, about 10 marines remained, all armed with BAR rifles, they were looking for the airfield, when they came across a down American plane, there were more marines trying to move the dead pilot
Marine: "hey he's stuck on something, help me get him out!"
Roebuck: "NO stop!"
There was an explosion from a booby trap it killed two of the marines were killed, and more Banzai soldiers came out of the bushes and swamp trees, but the squad managed to kill them before they could. There was nothing they could do for the marines so they moved up through the swamp, once they were out, more Japanese were defending the airfield, radio tower. A marine was using a flamethrower he ran up to machine gunner and tried to burn him out of a trench but, was shot in the process.
Roebuck: "Miller quick he's reloading take that flamethrower and take him out"
Miller ran over quickly and picked up the flamethrower and burned the gunner as he was reloading, they then moved up to the tower, it had several Japanese soldiers inside, defending it, all of them had machine guns and every time a Marine went to shoot one, he was torn apart by them, so Miller picked up a M1 Garand with a grenade launcher, he loaded a grenade and fired it at the tower causing, a lot of it to fall to the ground and killed a few of them, he loaded another grenade and fired it at the next side, and killed the rest of them, they ran through the tower and out the other side was the airfield, 3 tanks, Polonsky picked up a bazooka and fired the rockets at the tanks, causing them to explode, they all went to the top of the air field tower and, found an anti-aircraft weapon, Miller got in it and, 3 more tanks came over the hill, he fired the launcher at them and completely destroyed them, after that the Japanese retreated.
Roebuck: "outstanding work Marines, well done Miller, we've taken the airfield now let's take the rest of Peleliu".
