Chapter Summary- 41: Rescue Mission- Lucy Oliva

Jim sits in shock and disbelief, watching the corpse of the Japanese pilot who had just died right in front of him. He reflects on what this young man had meant to him, offering some hope and visions of flying out of Shanghai together to escape the warzone. "He had failed to grasp the truth that millions of Chinese had known from birth, that they were all as good as dead anyway, and that it was self-deluding to believe otherwise." All around Jim was chaos, but he ignored it, deciding to eat a can of spam and then use the tin to dig a grave for the corpse. Jim thinks he has witnessed a miracle when the boy appears to come back to life, that his hands had some sort of power to revive the dead pilot. In awe of the encounter, Jim resides to leave the body, given new hope and purpose to go on and find his friends and family.

Jim runs back to camp and notices that the American planes and pilots had arrived. Entering the hospital he is reunited with Dr. Ransome, who embraces and inspects Jim wearing a US army shirt, before informing him that his parents were waiting for him.