Late in the afternoon, when the attacks petered out, Wada ordered Lieutenant Colonel Schwartz and several other American physicians up to the deck to care for wounded Japanese. They found the passenger areas slicked with rivulets of blood, bodies, and parts of bodies, including a baby that had been shattered by a .50-caliber round. “The ship’s salon was packed with dead and dying Japanese troops, women and children,” a shaken Schwartz recalled. “Medical supplies . . . were meager, and as soon as darkness set in we were forced to discontinue our work because there
