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...possible excuse to put off my examination . . . but [his commanding officer] told him to get a move on. When the lad stripped, we found he was wearing a coat of mail under his vest." ¶ Another entry in the Moran diary: "Just now a man was brought to my dugout on a stretcher. Half his hand was gone and his leg below the knee was crushed and broken. While his wounds were dressed he smoked, lighting a new cigarette from the stump of an old one. His eyes were as steady as a child's, only his lips were...
July 5-Lieut. Matsumai came to our dugout saying, "As long as I'm going to die, I want to die with the pharmacist's section." Also: "If this is going to be our grave let us make it clean." We attended to cleaning up the area. The furious assault of the enemy commenced. . . . Two men pathetically committed suicide due to severe wounds. The lieutenant and the pharmacist section bade farewell and promised to meet at the Yasukumi Shrine after death. I, with Lieut. Yamaguchi, was absorbed into the command section and was very happy...
Combat Wreckage. Battle scars are everywhere. When we rolled into Bhamo there was a Jap tankette still rusting by the road and outside one dugout, two feet from the highway, lay a Japanese soldier still unburied. His pants and wool puttees were dried on his body, but his chest, exposed, was now a hollow framework of ribs through which red dust sifted...
...jumped into a dugout when the shells came close, and crouched beside another soldier, whom I could hardly see in the murky light. We didn't speak for a second, then he said quietly and evenly: "Don't shoot." I replied: "It's O.K., pal -I haven't got a gun." "Well," he said, "here's mine-it's a Luger." I realized he was a German. I called the Jocks-and quickly...
...Cigar. In France, an R.C.A.F. batman examined a shell fragment that landed in the dugout beside him, found that the serial number on it was exactly the same as the number on his own identification...