Chapters 11 + 12

Louie and what remains of his original crew are sent off on a rescue mission to search for the missing B-24 piloted by Clarence Corpening. As custom had it Louie wrote “If we’re not back in a week, help yourself to the booze” on a note he placed on his footlocker. Flying for this long in a B-24, especially doing this type of activity required the men to double and triple check all of the engines and safety equipment in the plane. As fate would have it the plane gave out and the engines one by one were failing. They crash, the crew of over 9 men had hit the ocean hard. Only 3 of the men survived the crash and were stranded out in the water; Louie, Phil, and Mac. Phil with a serious head injury and Mac with a destroyed sense of sanity Louie was left in command. My interest lies with Mac, while Louie and Phil are testing their minds Mac is in his own little world, I want to know why he was so distraught by the crash while the others maintain sanity through willpower. The last statement of the chapter was that Mac was filled with fear as he began to stir – can fear really shake a man this much? I’ve never met a person so destroyed from fear so only the next chapters will tell us.