Peleliu – The China Wall
“If there’s one cave on that slope we can see, there’s gotta be forty buried under the bush.” Mike Stokey stood next to Lt. Kerry Dale Hunter glassing the rugged east face of the China Wall. “It was probably a lot easier back in ’44 when they had 16-inchers and airstrikes to burn off the vegetation.”
“Digging people out of crap like that was never easy, especially if they’re determined to stay put.” Hunter stared at the dark mouth of the single cave they could see and figured a former soldier like Felodon would never pick such an obvious spot. “You sure they’re up there somewhere?”
“Don’t see how they could have gotten much farther. Nasuton’s in no shape for bush-bashing so I caught up with ’em fairly quick. Last good sighting I had they were headed for that cav
