The enemy doctors, though, had other ideas. This was still early in the war, before shortages of medical supplies became acute. The Sammie staffs were honestly trying to be humane. After more than a week of wavering between life and death, Hawker finally landed on the positive side. Eventually he recovered without the loss of limbs or organs.
The Sammies treated prisoners much more fairly than prisoners were treated during the wars in either Africa or China. The Freeks, on the other hand, were rumored to still have a few primitive notions about the treatment of captured enemies.
Not that his life as a Sammie prisoner was easy. Food and supplies were always minimal, and the Red Cross packages were always too little and too late. As the war dragged on, food became even scarcer. He sometime
