Voices of the Pacific Quotes

“In December 1943, there were 235 men in K company. The amount who ended up alive and well at the end of Okinawa was 19.”
― Adam Makos, Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II

“On December 26, 1943, the Marines landed on the western tip of the island of New Britain, at a place called Cape Gloucester. On the opposite end of the island lay Japan’s South Pacific battle capital, the fortress port of Rabaul. The Marines were not there to attack Rabaul but instead to seize the island’s western airfield, isolating Rabaul so it would die on the vine.”
― Adam Makos, Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II

“Behind our gun position we dug a depression that a couple of guys could lay in. That depression would fill with water, and at nighttime, when you wanted to take a nap, two guys would crawl in that water and their bodies would keep it warm. There was a drawback to that because your skin would all shrink up. SID”
― Adam Makos, Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II

“The idea of faith is that you hope He’s real. But faith beyond that is that you know He’s real. And I now know that God is real.”
― Adam Makos, Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II