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Editor's note: The following story appeared in the December 1947 issue of The Navy Supply Corps Newsletter. Then LCDR Wheeler eventually rose to the rank of vice admiral in the Supply Corps and retired in 1974. He served as Chief of Supply Corps from 1970 to 1973. See a tribute to VADM Wheeler that appeared in the June/July/August 2002 issue of the Newsletter (www.navsup.navy.mil, select News).
This is a story based on actual incidents.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." In the summer of 1942 as prisoners of the Japanese, captured in the invasion of the Philippines, none of us were looking for an application of the Golden Rule.
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