On Coral Shores Songtext
von Hail of Bullets

Tons of high explosives
Plastering the reefs
Amphtracs approaching
Offloading LST′s

Establishing the beachheads
Perimeter secured
Distant laying battleships
Roaring whilst harbored

Barbed wire and minefields
Concrete obstacles
Cautiously proceeding
Behind armored vehicles

Say farewell to their comrades
Left in blood red waves
A sudden hail of metal
From camouflaged caves


Barrels of all calibers
Decimate the ranks
Concentrated fire
Hidden Ha Go tanks

Airborne harakiri
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 counterattack

Storming on a noxious stew
Of putrefying dead
Fierce hand to hand combat
Charge with bayonet


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

Insulate coral shores