On Coral Shores

Tons of high explosives
Plastering the reefs
Amphtracs approaching
Offloading LST's
Establishing the beachheads
Perimeter secured
Distant laying battleships
Roaring whilst harboured

Barbed wire and minefields
Conrete obstacles
Cautiously proceeding
Behind armoured vehicles
Left in blood red waves
A sudden hail of metal
From camouflaged caves

Barrels of all calibres
Decimate the ranks
Concentrated fire
Hidden Ha Go tanks
Airborne hari-kiri
Devastating wings
Naval bombardments
Ever ongoing

Shermans cracking pillboxes
Grinding spider holes
Flamethrowers spewing
Burn nests on these atolls
Corsairs sending rockets
Drive the enemy back
Launch in desperation
Vicious counterattacks

Storming on a noxious stew
Of putrefying dead
Charge with bayonet

Severed hands, blackened flesh
Blood, bones, filth and gore
Torn cadavers exposing
The gruesome face of war

Insulate coral shores