The Crazy Lt. Dressed Like an Admiral

The next a.m. the Lt. came with his binoculars and tried to see if there was a body where we shot, about 100 yards away; he saw nothing. A few days later a new Lt. came, with what I remember as a Frank Buck type jungle helmet with gold bars. It may not have been what I described, and it may have been a military issue hat, but he wanted to take a better look at the disabled Japanese tank so we showed him what we had observed. We were standing a little away from him while he looked, but we were all close, when all of a sudden a bullet came with a thud, accompanied by a loud bang! We all immediately dropped to the ground, looked to see if everyone was o.k.; they were and we grabbed our carbines and took off running in the direction we were sure the shot came from! Dumb!! But we didn't hesitate; found a path towards that direction and went up over a small rise. Again - dumb! We realized we were in the jungle and had seen nothing so we started carefully coming back down the path we came. The vegetation was very heavy in spots and you couldn't really see in at all. We went back to the Lt. who was very visibly shaken, since the bullet had come closest to him. As we were pointing out the area we thought the shot came from up walked Little Joe! (Cont'd)