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Baptism
Johnny Strange
“Have you seen Bud?”
Johnny Strange sat against a palm tree at the jumping off point at Aola Bay cleaning his BAR. Achilles squad was with the rest of the raiders waiting to get picked up for the trip back. Billy Martens was leaning on his rifle, looking around the camp. The moon was out over the Slot. Pam trees rustled in the breeze and except for the fact they knew they were on Guadalcanal, it could have been Tonga.
“No, I thought he was with you.”
“I lost track of him in the firefight this morning and I haven’t seen him since.”
Two 1st Division guys ambled by and Johnny stood up. “Hey, you guys seen a 2nd Div corpsman? He got separated from our squad during the firefight this morning. He would have been with any wounded. You got any?”
One gyrene, a lank
