Inferno at Turkey Knob - Book Three
The mountain priced them by the load. They priced themselves by the pace. The mountain lost.
Book Three of The Black Sands of Suribachi: The Montford Point Marines of Iwo Jima.
Late February 1945. North of the airfields the Marines run into the Meat Grinder: Hill 382, the Amphitheater, and the blockhouse-crowned rise called Turkey Knob, where the Japanese defenders can see every yard of ground and every man who crosses it.
Every round fired at the Knob has to be carried there first. The men of the depot and ammunition companies carry it, load after load, up four hundred yards of observed ground, through smoke and night and the spotters’ eyes, while a price board keeps the count and the letters home go north to Orangeburg. And when one of their own falls, the next carry is made in his name.
Thirty chapters, from the Meat Grinder to the day the grinder stops.
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