Killdozer! (short story)

is a science fiction/horror novella by American writer Theodore Sturgeon, originally published in the magazine Astounding (November 1944) and revised for the 1959 collection Aliens 4.

[1] The story inspired a 1974 TV-movie and a Marvel Comics adaptation by Gerry Conway and Richard Ayers in Worlds Unknown #6 (April 1974).

Only a single example of the enemy weapons survives, falling into slumber in a shelter as no Earth machines remain to possess.

An eight-man construction crew is building an airstrip and related facilities on a small Pacific island during the course of World War II.

Then, a Japanese air raid bombs the whole area below them, including the places that the bulldozer damaged and the graves of their fellow workers.

One worker tears up the report he was writing and throws it in the air, thrilled that an explanation is now available — enemy action in wartime.