← Previous – CH22 – Next → Chapter 22FAREWELL CHINA. . . . . During World War II, there was a saying among the fighting Marines.in the South Pacific, and later with the Mannes in China, that the only gate they ever wanted to
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← Previous – CH21D – Next → Chapter 21DStalin did not forget. . . . . The news that was closer to Shanghai always got everyone to sit up at the bar: “Chinese communists occupied Tientsin after a 27-hour battle with Nationalist forces,” followed
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← Previous – CH21C – Next → Chapter 21CWhite Russians Eager to “Go Home”. . . . . The next morning I conned the company clerk in to giving me an early liberty pass and went to find Roy Lund. It wasn’t difficult to
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← Previous – CH21B – Next → Chapter 21BBack to the Bars and Bad News. . . . . Outside in the street we caught two pedicabs. We didn’t have to tell the drivers twice where to go. They knew, like the old mare
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← Previous – CH21A – Next → Chapter 21ALAST STAND IN SHANGHAI. . . . . With pomp, pride and a display of showmanship, the helmsman brought our whaleboat-packed with sailors from the destroyer, going ashore on liberty-up the congested Huangpu River, past ships
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← Previous – CH20B – Next → Chapter 20BRescued at Last. . . . . We sailed following off shore winds to the south. I helped at the helm and learned to adjust the rudder, which at sea, is lowered down the trunk and
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← Previous – CH20A – Next → Chapter 20AJUNKS ON THE HORIZON. . . . . In less than a minute I was numb with cold, so cold I couldn’t breathe. My lungs refused to function. I desperately beat on my chest with both
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← Previous – CH19B – Next → Chapter 19BFrom Temporary Relief to a Labor Camp. . . . . The next move was unexpected. It came as a surprise to everyone gathered there, to the villagers, to the rebels, and to me especially. The
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← Previous – CH19A – Next → Chapter 19ACAPTURED. . . . . The men who ambushed our patrol in the Loh Shan Mountains were guerrillas, not Mao Tse-tung’s regulars. They called themselves freedom fighters, but in reality they didn’t quite know who they
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← Previous – CH18B – Next → Chapter 18BThe Bible Sergeant. . . . . Those left behind in the weapons carrier could set up camp and await our radio report. If we needed them, they could follow the next morning. Everyone agreed and
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