a welcome distraction from the dread and fear he feels when he thinks of the approaching Battle of Okinawa. Although written in 1985, the vignette was not published until 2009, in the collection of Marine-related short stories The Suicide Run (Random House 2009). References Scott catalogue Stuart Rossiter & John Flower, The Stamp Atlas Spanish Africa Former colonies in Africa Former Spanish colonies Annobón History of Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea–Spain relations