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“Mine doesn’t have an entrance there”

“Trust me,” Hayward said “It’s there That is, if the Japs didn’t seal it”

Kekoa assumed the captain had read his file and knew his mother was Japanese, like the parents of many of the men in his division But Hayward didn’t seem at all concerned that Kekoa was a potential traitor, which boosted the captain a few notches in his eyes

Kekoa cautiously guided his men to the place Hayward had pointed to on theconcealed by the re shrubbery that hadn’t been destroyed by the bombardment If the captain hadn’t led them here, they never would have seen it

Kekoa called for ot an instant response in the affirmative Obviously, Hayward must have had more pull than he realized

Another Sherman trundled its way to the tunnel entrance This time, Kekoa ordered everyone to cover before it fired The tank blasted the tunnel with a high-explosive round There was no secondary explosion Anyone inside had to be dead, but Kekoa ordered the tank to fire three more shells as insurance

He called his flamethrower team forward and ordered the platoon to follow them in Every twenty feet, a jet of fire would shoot forward to clear the path of hiding Japanese Marines, illu the otherwise darkened tunnel

Kekoa didn’t like having daylight fralanced behind hi to his carbine as if it were a talisman

“Should be two intersections down,” Hayhispered “On the right”

Kekoauntil they reached the intersection and turned They got another twenty feet when banshee-like screams wailed fro footsteps

“Light ’e Hayith him

The fla liquid down the tunnel That should have stopped the Japanese in their tracks, but they kept coh the wall of fire as if it were nothing ht breeze and launched the the flaet a shot off, they viciously stabbed both Americans with bayonets even as they burned

Seeing that there was no way to save his flamethrower team, Kekoa shouted, “Open fire!”

Bullets poured down the tunnel fro

Yet the Japanese still kept co theht out of a Superman comic