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Show 34 tried to back them up. Then a wave hit and one of the poles went over." "Which one?" "Parker's. On top of that, both Jennings and I slipped. That left Sergeant Koontz alone. At the last he held us off." Sid grew silent, and the Major's eye coursed the circle, growing no lighter as it did. "Good man, Koontz." he said. "Good man. If we had more like him -- " The sentence died in mid-air, permitting each to send the thought in his own way, which did nothing to lighten the mood. In a moment tha Major shifted. "What was wrong with the engine?" "Not sure, sir. Something about the pipes. They're bad, Furukawa said, and he tried to get more." "Where?" "The dockyard." "Shijaomura?" "I - I believe so, s i r ." "You don't know?" "Yes, s i r , I do. It was. Shimomura, that i s ." Shimomura Kogyo, which lay just below the BOQ, was a large shipyard, one of the few the Russians had not dismantled and t r a n s f e r r e d to Siberia. And i t was a major source of Japanese f o r e i g n exchange. "What do you mean he t r i e d ?" " I don't know, s i r . He didnt say." "He never asked me." |