3-Chapter+7

1. Important Events: a. MILITARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: In aerial gunning they nailed targets at a rate of more than three times the average of the squadron. The crew got the best gunnery scores in the squadron. Success at Wake. One admiral predicted Japan might be finished within a year, and Phil overheard men talking about going home. They got too cocky because the success had been too easy.

b. FUNNY STORIES: Everyone would steal Louie's gum and he decided to switch it out with laxatives and when people asked him for gum they were soon rushing for the bathroom. (70) "I gave the skipper an F for identification, but an A+ for a quick dive." (69)

c. MOMENTS THAT HELP SHOW LOUIE'S PERSONALITY: Louie rewarded the enlisted men by pinning his insignia to their uniforms and sneaking them into the club. (70) "Louie and Phil decided to 'scare the hell out of them'" (68)

d. MOMENTS THAT STAND OUT: "In honor of his college buddy Payton Jordan, who had just married his high school sweetheart, Louie scrawled Marge and Payton on a bomb." (73) "The bathroom was plastered in girlie pinups, a Sistene Chapel of pornagraphy." (67)

e. UNFORGETABLE IMAGES: The wholes in the roads hadn't been filled after the attacks because there were so many from the enemies the highwaymen could fill them fast enough. (66) They could get a steak nearly as fat as a man's arm and as broad as his head. (70) "With no where else to go, he dropped his pants and hung his rear end out the waist window while four crewmen clung to him to prevent him from falling out.(70)

f. MEMORABLE QUOTES: "A smart, jovial ex-football player and prelaw student, built like a side of beef, Cuppernell got along with everyone, dispensing wisecracks through teeth clenched around a gnawed-up cigar." (68) "Methinks, he wrote his mother, it's a little premature" (77)

2. UNFAMILIAR WORDS: 1) Jovial- endowed with or characterized by joyous humor or as a spirit of good-fellowship 2) Nit-picking- to be obsessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential details 3) Pod- elongated two-valved sea vessel 4) Incendiaries- used or adapted for setting things on fire

3. Questions Level 1: 1. Why did Louie have to signal a flash code to there own sub- marine? 2. Why did Louies crew members not like the lieutenant? Level 2 Questions 1. What would the anxiety of the crew members lead you to believe? 2.What is insinuated by the crew members hate of the lieutenant? Level 3: 1.what effect does curiousity have on people? 2. what effect does suspense have on people?