Thursday, May 6, 2010 - But there was no time to fix thatEverything was...
But there was no time to fix thatEverything was getting out of controlThe Major felt as if he were holding a dozen packages in his arms and the first few were beginning to work loose alreadyHow much would he have to juggle?
And the artilleryThat would have to be co-ordinated tooThe machine was coming apart, gears and springs and bolts were popping out at every momentHe hadn't even thought of the artillery
Dalleson held his head and tried to think but he was blankA message had come through that the advance elements of the reserve were already at E Company's new positionsWhen the rest of the battalion got there, what could he do? The Jap supply depot was back of a hill, stored in cavesHe could send the louis vuitton monogram canvas galliera pm battalion on to there, and then what? He needed still more men
If his head had been clear, he might have hesitated, but all he could think about was moving menHe gave an order for Charley Company to join the reserve battalion, its positions to be taken up by Baker Company on its leftIt simplified things for himTwo companies would be holding down the normal positions of three, and so they could remain putHe wouldn't have to worry about themAnd the right flank could attack frontallyLet it all pour down, let the artillery take care of itselfHe could give them a battalion mission for the supply depot, and after that it would depend on liaison and targets of opportunity
He phoned Div Arty and told them"I cheap gucci bags want you to keep your liaison planes up all afternoon
"We lost one the other day, don't you remember, and the other one's grounded
"Why didn't you tell me that?" Dalleson roared"Well, then, assign your forward observers to Able Baker Charley and Dog Companies of the 460th and to Charley of the 458th
"What about communications?"
"That's your worryI got enough goddam things to think about His back was itching from perspirationIt was one o'clock already and the sun was smoldering on the canvas slopes of the tent
Slowly the afternoon wore byIt took until three o'clock for the reserve battalion and Charley Company to complete their movements, and by that time Dalleson hardly cared any longerHe had almost gold gucci watches a thousand men posted at the jumping-off point and no real idea of where to send themFor a few minutes he thought of turning them to the left and having them bear down to the seaIt would isolate half of the Japanese line, but he remembered too late that he pulled out a company from his left flankIf he squeezed the Japs there, he might endanger his own front-line positionsThe Major felt like butting his head against the deskIt was such a blunder!
He could send them to the right, toward the mountain, but after they cut off the Japs it would be difficult to bring up ordnance, and the troops at the end of the advance would have to be supplied over a long routeHe had the same kind of panic Martinez had felt fendi spy bag replica on his soloThere were so many obvious things he was forgetting
The phone rang again"This is Rock and Rye (The commander of the 1st Battalion, 460th Regiment "We're going to be ready to jump off in fifteen minutesWhat is our mission? I have to brief my men
They had been asking him this for the past hour, and each time he had roared back, "It's a mission of opportunity And now he had to give an answer"You're to proceed in radio silence up to the Japs' supply depot Dalleson gave the co-ordinates"When you're ready to attack, you're to send a message back, and we'll bring artillery downHandle it through your FOIf your radio won't carry, we'll let go on our side in exactly one hour, and you're to go in chanel shopping bags after
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