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Show 179 "We got to get out of here," said Red. "What's closer, our front line or our back up?" "We're waiting for air support," said Wilforce. Red noticed he had a square head. That's when the first line of Zeros made their pass. Marines went up like popcorn. "We got to consolidate and move," said Red. "We're sitting ducks." Captain Wilforce would have grabbed Red by the shirt if Red had any clothes on. "Get behind a bunker and defend. Corporal," said Captain Wilforce. The Zeros hit again, and the Japanese were xx within mortar range, xs Red still couldn't see any Japs but in the trees he saw the stars of fire from their guns. "By the way," said Captian Wilforce. "Did you ever finish that locker?" Just then the Zeros made another pass and Captain Wilforce got divested of selfhood. Now Red didn't have to make the locker, though he'd had a hunch he wouldn't have to anyway the way ixxgx things were going. The Zeros were coming in so close you could see the teeth of the pilots and now for the first time he saw the Japs moving in from tree to tree, getting xxfi ready to breach the gap between the jungle and the camp. He knew if the Marines stayed in the supply depot they'd all be dead. He tried to think of Helen axa and the new baby she was carrying but it didn't make any sense. Instead he kept thinking of Guy Lombardo. Red figured it would be xx senseless to try to break through to the xx front lines because the Japs were probably engaging the front lines too if they were attacking behind them. So whatever was behinc the Marines couldn't be as much as there was in the front so probably the x^xaaxxxxixxx best thing to do was head out the side and circle around to the support troops to reorganize an xxxxxx offensive. So Red went down the line and said "Come on, we're getting the hell out of here," or "Come on, we're going to attack," whichever he thought was appropriate to the look on the face, and not saying anything about orders but letting everybody assume he was in charge, and about kSx^xxsxSxxxsxRfexxKxxfexxxx^ixxStxstXXK half the men came an(j abOUt half u*ay9dN When the x*x Japanese made their move to hit |