Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Foreword William "Country" Landreth ix
Introduction xi
Acknowledgments xxiii
Timeline xxvii
Prologue: Living the Dash 1
Chapter 1 A Date Which Will Live in Infamy 15
Chapter 2 I Got One of 'em! 25
Chapter 3 Torpedoed! 41
Chapter 4 "Dirty Eddie" 53
Chapter 5 This War Is Really Hell 71
Chapter 6 Never Have So Few Been Dumped On by So Many 85
Chapter 7 A Young Man of Action 101
Chapter 8 Unbearable, We Just Want to Get the Hell Out 113
Chapter 9 Fighting Seventeen 131
Chapter 10 The Boys Tasted Blood 143
Chapter 11 He Exploded Right in My Face 151
Chapter 12 I Do Not Know What Is in Store for Me 165
Chapter 13 Beards Don't Go So Well Down in Sydney! 175
Chapter 14 The Rains Came 181
Chapter 15 The Hunters Became the Hunted 195
Chapter 16 Where Are They? 219
Chapter 17 Coming Home-I Want to Surprise You! 231
Chapter 18 Instructing the "Nuggets" 243
Epilogue 251
Appendix 1 Harry March Victory Credits and Citations 263
Appendix 2 Biographies of "Dirty Eddie's" Guadalcanal Buddies 269
Endnotes 279
Glossary 295
Bibliography 303
Index 305