Harbison, who talks a big game about fighting the Japanese, until it's time to actually make the landing at Kuralei. Cable, described as "pretty heartsick" and "fed up with things in general", charges the Japanese recklessly at Kuralei, until he's eventually killed. Death Seeker: Implied with the death of Joe Cable, who rejected Liat the Vietnamese girl in "Fo' Dolla'".The last story, "A Cemetery at Hoga Point", mentions that Joe Cable from "Fo' Dolla'" was killed in the assault on Kuralei.They appear again in "Those Who Fraternize." In "Wine for the Mess at Segi," Tony Fry, Bus Adams, and the Commander stop at that island and visit those four. Latouche, the oldest, is married and lives on another island with the three in line after her. In "Our Heroine," Emile tells Nellie that he has eight daughters and introduces her to the four youngest.The last mention of Harbison is in "The Landing on Kuralei", in which the Commander learns from another member of his unit that Harbison pulled strings to avoid getting sent into battle. Harbison each appear as supporting characters in several other stories. Later story "Passion" mentions both Harbison and a doctor who was on the crashed plane, who remembers the story in greater detail. That story also mentions how Harbison went down in the Pacific when a supply plane crashed, only to be rescued from a lifeboat by an American ship. "Our Heroine" mentions both nurses before focusing on one, Nellie, who finds real love elsewhere. Harbison the dishonest American officer is introduced in "An Officer and a Gentleman", where he romances two nurses before rejecting them both. That's a nod to previous story "The Cave" in which Anderson is The Voice, having stayed behind after the Japanese captured Malaita, radioing intelligence to the Allies from the jungle.
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