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Chorito Hog Leg, The by Pat Hickey Book 1 A novel of Guam war time Soft Cover
Chorito Hog Leg, The by Pat Hickey Book 1
A Novel of Guam in Time of War
Soft Cover
394 pages
Copyright 2007
CONTENTS
Part I Coconut Grove on Guadalcanal
Chapter 1 Raisin Jack on Guadalcanal April 15, 19449
Chapter 2 Now Showing at The Coral April 1944: On Japanese Occupied Guam:25
Chapter 3 Third Marine Division Camp Coconut Grove, Guadalcanal39
Chapter 4 Wild Bill Longley's Colt47
Chapter 5 A Monk and a Tough guy53
Chapter 6 A Pair of Antagonists67
Chapter 7 Shitbirds of Tulagi77
Part II LST 448
Chapter 8 Boson Otis89
Chapter 9 Roper Buck95
Chapter 10 The Old Corps101
Chapter 11 Lt. Buck's Hog-Leg107
Chapter 12 Able Company's Mic-Side Crooners109
Chapter 13 Good bye 'Canal127
Chapter 14 Tor Me to Know . . .and You Can Go . . .Find Out'131
Chapter 15 Rent on a Gun Tub135
Chapter 16 Flashy & Victoria143
Chapter 17 Take From the Sea's Bounty147
Chapter 18 Dining with A Red159
Chapter 19 The Brig Rat Resurgent165
Chapter 20 First Alarm Orote Naval Air Station169
Chapter 21 That Goofy Kate173
Part III Asan
Chapter 22 No Onions for the Hash181
Chapter 23 Sea-legs Uncoiled: Eniwetok Atoll July, 1944 185
Chapter 24 Gethsemane at Tai199
Chapter 25 A Homily on Targets203
Chapter 26 Cookie Tanaka Crumbles207
Chapter 27 Jane Powell for Now209
Chapter 28 A Night at the Opera215
Chapter 29 Stars and Mules 219
Chapter 30 The Gangs All Here!225
Chapter 31 Pa Kettle's Last Ride233
Part IV Bundeschu Ridge & Fonte Cliff
Chapter 32 Able Company Decimated251
Chapter 33 Life with Father257
Chapter 34 Someone to Watch Over Me259
Chapter 35 G.K.Chesterton267
Chapter 36 The Boson Takes Command273
Chapter 37 Pieta Chamorritas277
Chapter 38 Seven Banzai One Night281
Chapter 39 Jaundiced -But Not Yellow287
Chapter 40 Dr. Tanaka Takes a Jaw293
Chapter 41 Capt. Lou Wilson's Patrol295
Part V Secured End of July and Despair
Chapter 42 Buck Jones & The Birth of the Guam Combat Patrol Tiyan Airfield303
Chapter 43 Lou Wilson's Fonte Redoubt311
Chapter 44 The Dormition of the Theotokos319
Chapter 45 Hector and Joachim327
Chapter 46 What's the Hipster to the Slammer?333
Chapter 47 Bandages and Socks337
Chapter 48 Red Son Setting349
Chapter 49 'I Want that Man's Gun, Son!'351
Chapter 50 The Dentist Swings South359
Chapter 51 It Would Go Into the Forge and Back to Wild Bill365
Chapter 52 The Agana Pago Road" 'Orders, Major!'367
Chapter 53 The Guam Combat Patrol's First Ambush373
Chapter 54 Back From Manengon379
Chapter 55 Guam Secured & The Colt Revolver That's War387
Acknowledgments: The Chorito Hog Leg391
ON THE BACK COVER
Chorito is the name of a cliff overlooking the Asan beaches on Guam. In 1944, the 3rd Marines assaulted Chorito Cliff and Bundeschu Ridge. A Hog Leg is the nickname for an 1860 Colt .45 Revolver.
Within the carnage of battle is a war pitting a young man, Tim Cullen, against his battalion commander over the possession of an 1860 Army Colt .45 Hog leg revolver which can be traced back to Capt. Myles Keogh who died with Custer. The last owner is the doomed Lt. Jack Buck of Giddings, TX. Buck will be killed in the taking of Bundeschu Ridge, but Jack Buck had exacted a promise from Pvt. Tim Cullen of his platoon to keep it from the hands of Major Lucas Opley, an up from the ranks Marine of legend, and return the Colt to his family in Texas.
Parallel to Cullen's ordeals and suffering on Japanese occupied Guam are movie house operator Juan Cruz and his family, as well as an exiled Japanese American Dentist and his movie star wife. Exacting the cruelty is the oafish Boson Otayama and the American educated Lt. Kato. Awaiting liberation are also such historical figures of Guam's history as Father Duenas and Pastor Sablan.
The revolver, in its shoulder holster, will be taken from Lt. John A. Buck's body by Cullen at an aid station on Guam's Red Beach 2 and cause Cullen no end of problems. The Battalion commander wants the Colt Hog-leg. Cullen hangs on to the weapon but never uses it and is repeatedly ordered by Maj. Opley to hand it over. Opley wants it for himself. This through-the ranks career officer will undo himself through his own devices and be sent home under a cloud after years of service to the Corps after the Guam Camp
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