Jim eats the mango slowly and wishes he could attach himself to the pilot and run errands for him. There might be more food. Then in a few days he could be strong enough to walk to Shanghai, the Americans will have arrived and he could present the kamikaze pilot to them as his friend. The American are generous people and will ignore the small matter of the suicide attacks. Then, later, the Japanese might teach him to fly. Jim is almost drunk on the mango's juice.
Jim hears an American bomber overhead, a Superfortress. Flying low it opens it bomb bays and drops silver cylinders on the ground. One breaks open and Jim finds it filled with canned food and cigarettes - Spam, Klim, Nescafe, chocolate bars, and magazines. Jim grabs all the frozen items, and thinks ahead for the first time in days by taking the cigarettes.
He hears the familiar sound of a rifle shot, so instantaneously ducks for cover. He then watches as Private Kimaru is shot dead by a group of Europeans. When they leave, Jim has some of the gradually defrosting food to eat and plans what to do next.
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