The recent article about the World War II helldivers who trained on the Vineyard reminded me of this passage from Herman Wouk’s War and Remembrance:
“At that very moment the almost unrecognizable voice of a staff officer uttered a scream which perhaps rang on in Nagumo’s ears until he died two years later on the island of Saipan, under attack by another Raymond Spruance task force:
“Hell Divers!”
Bonnie Green
Atlanta, Ga.
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