In At the Death (2007)
“In! In!” Sergeant Hugo Blackledge bellowed. “Move your sorry asses before you get ’em shot off!”
Corporal Jorge Rodriguez hurried aboard the little coastal freighter. Fires in Savannah lit up the docks almost bright as day. Every so often, a flash and a boom would mark another ammo dump or cache of shells going up in smoke. The port was falling. Anybody who stayed to try to hold up the damnyankees would end up dead or a POW. Orders were to get out as many soldiers as could escape.
Nervously, Ro...driguez looked up into the sky. If any fighters came over right now, they could chew his company to pieces. But they mostly stayed on the runways after dark. With a little luck, this ship—the Dixie Princess, her name was—would be far away from Savannah by the time the sun came up.
“Ever been on a boat before?” Gabe Medwick asked.
“No,” Jorge admitted. “You?”
“A little rowboat, fishin’ for bluegill an’ catfish,” his friend said. “This ain’t the same thing, is it?MoreLess
Corporal Jorge Rodriguez hurried aboard the little coastal freighter. Fires in Savannah lit up the docks almost bright as day. Every so often, a flash and a boom would mark another ammo dump or cache of shells going up in smoke. The port was falling. Anybody who stayed to try to hold up the damnyankees would end up dead or a POW. Orders were to get out as many soldiers as could escape.
Nervously, Ro...driguez looked up into the sky. If any fighters came over right now, they could chew his company to pieces. But they mostly stayed on the runways after dark. With a little luck, this ship—the Dixie Princess, her name was—would be far away from Savannah by the time the sun came up.
“Ever been on a boat before?” Gabe Medwick asked.
“No,” Jorge admitted. “You?”
“A little rowboat, fishin’ for bluegill an’ catfish,” his friend said. “This ain’t the same thing, is it?MoreLess
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