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Tokyo Rose
Billy Martens
My Diary Jack—Thursday, October 15th, 1942 Guadalcanal
Hey, Jack, I was on the chow line today, 1st Div guys ribbed us and called us Hollywood Marines, as usual, only this time they were going after me too: “Hey, there’s Captain Blood, there’s Dive Bomber!” You know, from the Errol Flynn films. They got really loud, but I just ignored them. All I was interested in was the hot beans and pork. Chesty Puller himself pops up, asks his men what’s the deal, they tell him I’m the guy that wiped out two Jap machine-gun nests by the Matanikau.
Chesty asks me if I really am that Marine. I didn’t say anything, but Downtown Seattle Garowski was behind me and he goes, “He’s your man, Lieutenant Colonel, Sir. Charged them guns blazing. So maybe he’s more like Sheriff Wad
