Chapters 9 + 10

 Super Man’s fuel tanks were exceptionally low after a long trip back to repair the nose of the plane that had been shot by an antiaircraft round. Along the way they see a B-25 crew being rescued from a crash and from sharks. After coming back and repairing they were sent off on another mission to bomb Nauru, this was a difficult task because there were twelve Japanese “Zeros”. These planes were notorious for their speed and relative power. Getting to Nauru was easy, but bombing and coming back would be a fight for the crews’ lives. The two wingmen planes of Super Man were shot down and left Super Man to carry out the first layer of bombings. The crew successfully hit all three of their targets but afterwards came the peril. 9 Zeros came and pummeled them and the surrounding B-24s but while leaving, Super man was being pursued by 3 Zeros. After shooting down a would-be kamikaze the remaining two punched through the B-24’s Armor with Bullets and the devastating 20mm cannon. With all these gashes being torn into the plane many of these men were hit and in dire need of emergency response. After finishing off the two Zeros the men came back with 594 holes in their plane but more importantly a dead crewman; Harry Brooks had died. The men were given not even one night to rest because he Japanese had planned a counter attack. The “stinking six” – Japanese bombers had come to send panic. They did just what they had planned to do by blowing apart every structure on the air base and sending each man into an array of dugouts. From Fox-holes dug with helmets to primitive huts the men were everywhere and anywhere they thought they could seek shelter from the onslaught of bombs. Something that sticks out to me is the fact that one soldier was cursing the officers who left the men there, while in fact the officers were digging holes right next to him. From other movies and books I’ve read about war it is a generally common thing to have people blame others for things that have gone wrong. Not only blame others but blame people on your own side, the Japanese bombers blowing the hell out of the airbase was their plan. And is their responsibility yet the soldier picks away at the officers who put them on the island.