The next April Chen began training with the Fourth Regiment in Tainan. After six months, he was shipped off to the South Pacific to fight, and his literature-loving youth came to an end.
隔年 4 月，陳千武進入台南第四部隊接受新兵訓練；半年後被派往南洋群島加入太平洋戰爭，他的「文學少年期」也正式宣告結束。