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Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.

The callous marines had laughed at each other's retching, while stacking bodies.

Matsuo repeatedly choked down his own nausea.

At nightfall he had been able to sneak down a hillside and into the jungle, reeking of death.