"Henry has just got us two new cutters." (Chapter 1, 11)

"This naturally aroused a growing respect among their colleagues, but it was respect mixed with doubt and wonder, for they fitted no recognizable pattern." (Chapter 1, 20)

"Colonel Henry Blake was endowed with more human understanding than is required of a Regular Army Medical Officer, but after three days of this he left his lunch uneaten, went to his tent, called 8th Army Headquarters, arranged orders for Major Hobson, drove him to Seoul and put him on a plane for Tokyo and home where, a few weeks later, the Major's enlistment would expire." (Chapter 2, 26)

"And so Trapper was one of them." (Chapter 3, 34)

"From then on Dago Red put in many a fix. With the Swampmen it was mostly a gag, but one they could not quite bring themselves to forgo when things were rough." (Chapter 4, 37)

"I don't know where I've been...