Cap d'aquells homes pensava que anava a sortir de l'illa amb vida. Tres dies abans que els japonesos prenguessin l'illa, El teu avi li va demanar a un artiller de les Forces Aèries, un tal Winocki,
None of those boys had any illusions about ever leaving that island alive... so three days before the Japanese took the island... your granddad asked a gunner on an Air Force transport, name of Winocki- a man he'd never met before in his life-