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As a wedded man and Stanford graduate scholar nearing thirty, Christopher Donner may likely have certified for an exemption from the draft. Like the majority of his technology, however, he responded immediately to the decision to biceps and triceps after Pearl Harbor. His wartime experiences in the Pacific Movie theater were seared into his awareness, and in early 1946 he attempt to preserve those memory while they were still fresh. During the planting season of 1943 Donner signed up with the Marines' 9th security Battalion and found his first fight service in the campaign for New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. With the finish of Japanese level of resistance in the Central Solomons, Donner's battalion was dispatched in June 1944 to provide in the liberation of the U.S. place of Guam. When his device was reactivated and its veterans dispatched home, Donner had not been so fortunate. In early 1945, Donner was reassigned to the 11th Marines, the 1st Sea Division's field artillery. His new commander decreed that Donner would provide as a field artillery forward observer just in time for the invasion of Okinawa. Teeming with close phone calls and near misses, frank yet delicate observations of the brutality visited on Okinawa's civilians, and the horrors of frontline fight, Donner's account of his service with the Old Breed on Okinawa forms the primary of his memoir. Miraculously unscathed by the Okinawa bloodbath, Donner was en route to California for his first chance of leave when he discovered of the atomic bombs and the war's end. Besides providing a candid, moving modern record of the fight experiences of the Marine Corps officer, Pacific Time on Goalis a great account of the harrowing life of artillery forward observer, as handful of these men survived to share their stories.
