-CH4D- Day 2 on First Liberty For those who had gone ashore the night before, the conditioning hike into the hills was sheer agony.  Hecklinger suffered the most, and he wouldn’t tell us where he had been. “Always drink upstream
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-CH4C- First Liberty -Sailors vs Marines The EM Club was, indeed, an escape from a nightmare world outside into a haven of retreat, a house of fun, but to all who entered, it was also an entrance to a volatile
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-CH4B- Duties In Our New Home The moment we stepped out the gate half a hundred rickshaw drivers, two lines of them that extended far down the hill besieged us. “Hey, Joe, hey Joe, rickshaw,” they called out, holding on
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-CH4A- Duties In Our New Home Everybody on their feet!” Cpl. Marsden sounded out.  “Fall out in five minutes,” he continued, “helmet liners and rifles.” Marsden had a harsh Oklahoma cowboy voice that commanded respect, and we all hated him
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-CH3C- Chinese Interpreter in Action The Chinese foreman came rushing up to us when he saw us coming. He was a shadow of a man, dressed in a long black robe slit up the sides. He wore a felt hat,
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-CH3B- A Warm Victory Embrace, But Not At Home The lead Jeep, with Maj. Wallis and Capt. Johnson sitting upright in the rear of the vehicle, moved slowly through the arched gate and entered the street. They met with sudden
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-CH3A- Disembarked At Tsingtao During the early morning of October 11, while the 7th Fleet stood offshore, the first of the division’s transports docked at Tsingtao’s wharves. The 6th reconnaissance Company disembarked and was soon on its way to secure
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-CH2E- Harold Speaks Chinese, Will be the Translator From aboard ship we could look over the harbor towards the docks where masses of humanity began gathering.  Some sat along the docks, their feet dangling over the sides, while others squatted
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-CH2D- Dangers on the Harbor The tragedy was there was no avoiding it. The helmsman could only steam ahead no matter what. There were splashes, monstrous splashes which you could only hear and not see. We were flooded, the entire
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-CH2C- Dangers at Sea I could not have believed it possible for the wind to blow as it did. Stevenson borrowed a foul weather jacket and came to stand with me in the turret. We were grateful we were not
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