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From the code talkers who had been on the Canal, I also learned more about our enemies. During training it had sometimes seemed as if I was going off to fight monsters, not human beings. But for Bill and Sam, during those first days on Guadalcanal, those enemies were faceless. Zeros swooped in to attack. Sticks of high explosives fell swishing from two-engine bombers, including one old plane that came over every night. Its two engines were so out of sync that its sound was like no other aircraft.
"Everyone called that plane Washing Machine Charlie," Sam said.