Chapter 17: Typhoon

While floating at sea, a typhoon struck them one day, and they were tossed all over. When they woke up on the raft after the storm, they found themselves near an island. The island was occupied by the Japanese, who took them  in and gave them food and water. When weighed, each man had lost about half of their body weight, about eighty pounds. They were transported away from this island to Makin-Atoll. The prison cells that they were in were gross and bug infested.