Adamson, using a kind of code because of the presence of the crew, reminded Rickenbacker that if it was Japanese territory they put down in, because of what they knew about the upcoming North Africa invasion, they can’t afford to be taken prisoners. Adamson whispered that during his intelligence training he’d learned the Japanese had acquired some kind of “truth serum” drug from the Germans. Rickenbacker acknowledged that “if the Japs find us on the rafts you and I have only one way to go, and that’s down.”8
