Small, Sidney Herschel "The Castaways"

Interesting as a period piece, though certainly not as believable fiction. Post tag line: “Captain Wallis hated the Japs as much as they hated him — which explains why he deliberately let them capture him and take him aboard one of their infamous prison ships.” Wallis, late of the Japanese-sunk freighter GALATEA, becomes part of a U.S. Navy team attempting to capture the MIYAKO MARU, a prison ship en route from Formosa to Manchuria. Wallis’ son just happens to be a prisoner aboard, but that’s one coincidence that the reader will just have to swallow. The story’s 1945 “message” involves Wallis’ view of his fellow team members, all of whom are Japanese-Americans. Wallis initially hates and distrusts them as nothing more than “Japs,” but of course comes to respect them as patriotc fellow Americans once they’ve successfully taken over MIYAKO MARU and rescued its ill-treated Allied prisoners (including his son). The “Japs,” of course are depicted as fiendishly cruel, uncivilized subhumans.