Lieutenant Jack Gibson described "a roar like an express train tunnel" as a Japanese shell hit the main battery director's control station. "It came right through it, clipping off the steel stem of the sight-setter's stool and dropping him swearing to the deck. In the half-dark I could see him clawing at the rear of his pants to find out if he was all there." A voice with a Tennessee twang drawled, "That'll teach you not to be settin' when yo' betters are left standin' up."
(from Neptune's Inferno, by James D. Hornfischer)
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Leave it to a Southerner.
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