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As the leaders of the camp find out who Louie was, they put him up to the challenge of facing Japanese runners. Louie ends up beating the first, one but throwing the second in exchange for a payment of food.

Louie gets taken to a secret interrogation camp called "Ofuna". There was a clear schedule every day, and he was not to speak. It was clear that in this secretive camp, the Japanese had the opportunity to do whatever they pleased to the captives, without anyone finding out.

Louie and Phil have been captured by the Japanese. They are thrown in cells that are insect infested. They are not given blankets or much food, and they begin to miss their raft. Louie began having extreme digestive issues, as well as severe lice and mosquito bites.

The men have resorted to using strange fishing techniques, and eating birds. On one occasion, Louis attained head lice from a bird that they had caught. Sergeant Francis McNamara died soon after. Phillip and Louie realized that without Mac, they'd probably already be dead.

The men reach day 21. Phillip's head wounds have started to heal. However, their water tins have gone dry, and they are beginning to thing dramatically.

After a while out at sea, the men are weakening from exhaustion, dehydration, and hunger. They have lost their best chance at resume with the "Daisy-Mae". At points like this the novel seems like a fiction story, but it's important to remember that all of the events actually happened.

Whilst the men are inside the "Green Hornet", they begin to experience some difficulties. They soon realize that their plane is about to crash in the middle of the ocean. It's hard for a reader to imagine what this sensation would feel like.

The men rescue the rafted soldiers, and proceed on their mission to fight the Japanese. They take with them the plane "Superman". Well into their mission, things are not looking good. This alludes to the beginning of Louie's bad luck.

Louie's plane has been shot down. Survivors of the accident have gotten to rafts, but there is little to no chance of anyone finding them. Sharks daunted the men, and all of the, chose to stay in the rafts rather than take their chances swimming to land.

Three days before Christmas, Louie and the crew were given their first real mission fighting the Japanese. Until this point, Louie and his crewmates have simply been watching all the action.