Word: wajda
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Though his mother back in New Jersey had worn black for a month, Michael Wajda, ship's electrician, was not dead. While the raft under him drifted in the doldrums, he clung to life, alternately raved, mumbled and lay insensate under the equatorial sun. Last week came word that after 46 days on the flotsam-cradling sea he had been picked up near Georgetown, British Guiana, was recovering in a hospital there...
...torpedo had blasted Wajda's ship, a U.S. merchantman, at night; shellfire pummeled her carcass. Shell fragments got Wajda in the head and ankle, rolled him overboard like a sack. He came to on a pitching raft where ship's Engineers Mahlon Benton and Lindgren Bancroft had dragged him. They rigged a sail of two big yellow quarantine flags, dressed Wajda's wounds, doled him out a supply of chocolate and hardtack...