Cassie DePeckel

He's spent time in the United States and speaks English well.

You look lovely today, Miss Laura.

How are you and your nurses getting along without Dr. Leach?

Cobb sighs.

It's August.

Cobb and her crew have been at Los Banos for three months, and things seem to be getting worse every day.

A few weeks ago, the U.S.

government traded some Japanese captives to free Dr. Leach.

Cobb was happy for him, but crushed for the camp to lose its only doctor.

Now, the nurses have to provide all patient care on their own.

And that's far from the only problem.

The camp is bare bones.

Los Baños doesn't even have a good sewer system.

There's barely running water here.

For basic hygiene, they had to build a latrine and a sluice to flush waste out.

They were promised new clothing, but that never materialized either.

Some of the nurses finally found a bolt of denim in an abandoned building on campus and sewed new outfits.

They tore their dingy old uniforms into bandages for patients.

Prisoners have also had to throw up rickety barracks just to house people because the population of Los Banos keeps growing.

On one hand, Cobb is proud of all that the prisoners have done to make life here bearable.