Day Three

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June 8th 1943

Hungry, thirsty and tired me and the sniper were helpless against an entire island of Japanese soldiers with guns. We had three rifle magazines and two pistol magazines left so we split the ammo. We decided to find some animals on the island, we searched for four hours but found no animals so we switched to eating dead bodies. It was disgusting at first but we got used to it after the first body.

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