DEAD MAN'S GUARD - PART 2/2 "Later in the morning, one Jap, perhaps in search of food, stuck his head into the tent and looked all around. He stepped over the body of the dead man in the door and stood up inside the tent. He had a rifle with a bayonet fixed. He blinked in the darkness of the tent’s interior for a second.
From deep inside the dark end of the tent Captain Buehler slowly raised his carbine and pushed off the safety realizing fully that a shot coming from inside the tent would bring the whole horde in on them. Either way it was suicide. At least he would take one of the bastards along.
The Jap was looking down at the two wounded men. They were lying face down on the grassy floor. If Buehler stuck his bayonet into the man he would scream and the whole show would be lost. The Jap took a tentative step toward Sergeant Onken; Buehler’s finger tightened on the trigger. Then suddenly, in response to a shout from outside, the Jap turned and ducked out through the doorway." - Capt. George S.Buehler C. Co, 7th Medical BN, Attu, May 29, 1943.