Left for Dead by Pete Nelson

Author:Pete Nelson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780375890185
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2002-05-14T00:00:00+00:00

For McGuiggan, rescue began when a B-17 flew over in the late afternoon and dropped a life raft. He’d lost track of time and thought it was still the second day. McGuiggan summoned the last of his strength and swam for the raft. At the raft, he met a shipmate from Indiana, a man named Hamer Campbell who’d come from another group. Picking Campbell out of the water, McGuiggan looked down for the first time and saw sharks, layers of them. Only when they paddled back to McGuiggan’s original group did he realize that what had started out to be 150 men was now down to about 15. Everyone got into the raft. It was cold. McGuiggan passed out. Finally they saw a searchlight in the distance illuminating the clouds. They paddled toward it. He passed out again, or slept—what was the difference? He awoke early in the morning, and had to prop his eyelids open with his fingers because they’d crusted over with ulcers. He saw a ship coming closer. Men on the ship started shooting at him. What was this? More Japs? In fact the rescue ship had sent a swimmer to the raft with a lifeline to tie to it. The men on the ship weren’t shooting at the men in the raft—they were shooting at the sharks surrounding the swimmer. McGuiggan was brought aboard the USS Talbot and later transferred to the USS Register.

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