← Previous – CH14B – Next → Chapter 14BBully British Navy Officer. . . . . We could deal with these shady characters, for in the end we knew they would come running to us for help. But what we couldn’t deal with were
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← Previous – CH14A – Next → Chapter 14AMP Duties. . . . . MP duty in Tsingtao was tough. It wasn’t the long hours that was so bad, it was when we had to tum in our buddies who were breaking the rules
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← Previous – CH13F – Next → Chapter 13FPostwar Complications. . . . . When I came from the restaurant that night after being with Lt. McCaffery, the guys wanted to hear all about it. I told them that I thought the lieutenant was
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← Previous – CH13E – Next → Chapter 13ENew Marine Officer from Home. . . . . A letter from my mother had the news that her sister, my Aunt Liz, had a good friend whose son was on his way to Tsingtao, and
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← Previous – CH13D – Next → Chapter 13DComforting Letters from Home. . . . . We kept our heads low and worked our way slowly between the pilings. It was black with only glints of light that reflected on the rippled water. Sewers
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← Previous – CH13C – Next → Chapter 13CA Bluff to Assert Authority. . . . . Gamble was in the brig office the first day l was on the job. He was an old hand from the 55th Draft days, and I knew
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← Previous – CH13B – Next → Chapter 13BNew Duty, MP Battalion. . . . . The Marines were quite content with their facilities at the university. They had everything they needed-a gym with weights and basketball court, a big well-stocked PX with Planters
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← Previous – CH13A – Next → Chapter 13AReturn to Tsingtao. . . . . One Thursday afternoon, what we feared would happen one day, did happen. Orders came from the Fleet Marine Force Headquarters that all US Marines studying the Chinese language at
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← Previous – CH12F – Next → Chapter 12ETorn Between Two Lovers. . . . . The train station in Peking was a nightmare. Attendants had to use force to control the masses. They did their utmost to squeeze passengers into the compartments. They
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← Previous – CH12E – Next → Chapter 12ESearch for the Missing Peking Man. . . . . Gunny sat up front with Joe. Once we passed through the city wall gate and the last guards, both U.S. Marines and Nationalist soldiers, Gunny opened
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