The recent article about the World War II helldivers who trained on the Vineyard reminded me of this passage from Herman Wouk’s War and Remembrance:

“At that very moment the almost unrecognizable voice of a staff officer uttered a scream which perhaps rang on in Nagumo’s ears until he died two years later on the island of Saipan, under attack by another Raymond Spruance task force:

“Hell Divers!”

Bonnie Green

Atlanta, Ga.