"Every time a flare would fizzle out, here they would come, inching along with only a grenade or two..."

“Every time a flare would fizzle out, here they would come, inching along with only a grenade or two for weapons. One Jap made it right up to our hole so quietly I didn’t know he was anywhere near. With a reflex action, I poked my BAR in his ear and pulled the trigger. His head opened up like a cantaloupe and we were splattered with brains, but alive.”

- US Marine Glenn Searles on Okinawa’s night fighting (via demons)