Jim leaves the party and sets out across a field strewn with lidless coffins with mud buried yellowing skeletons. The skulls intrigued Jim and he felt they were more alive than the peasants they had once been.
Jim continues on to a rice paddy and sails his balsa plane over the nettles and sugarcane to the aerodrome at Hungjao. Here Jim delighted in the remnants from this military airfield from which the Chinese had attacked the Japanese in 1937. Jim threw himself into his imaginations of the Japanese pilots and the wreckages of their fighter planes. He re-visits the 1937 battlefield of the Chinese armies and recalls the bodies of the dead lining the roads and floating in the canals.
Jim flies his balsa plane into a barbed wire fence and notices it.....
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