Eighty-Three Days - The Survival of Seaman Izzi

Words at war Presents 83 days the story of semen is it What just is he? It's my last name Is he? Some last name you got what's your first name? Basil Basil, huh?

Your mother didn't like children maybe huh? Anyhow take it easy you see. Why aren't flat? Yeah. Man what are you guys as the Navy man? You're with me? Yeah. Seaman and second class is my rating.

Mal can gun crew and that's much in ship. How long were you out there? 83 days. What happened? We were torpedoed. About 4th of you in the afternoon of November 2, 1942, a fast Dutch cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk a few hundred miles off the coast of South America.

Only a few of the four hundred men on the ship survived, and one of them, Basil Dominic Izzy, seamen second-class of the United States Navy, was found on a raft in mid-ocean nearly three months after the sinking.

the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with the Council on Books in War Time, brings you the incredible saga of Simon Izzie and his companions, who lived through almost three months on a raft in the South Atlantic. The book, Eighty-Three Days, The Survival of Simon Izzie by Mark Murphy.

You were torpedoed, huh? Yeah. Then what? Oh, nothing much. Nothing much we could do. We It was off watch when it happened. Jouty was my buddy, Jensen. Anyhow, he was playing poker. Job won't poker.

Jensen ordered me close to a million bucks by then. How much? A million bucks, y'all. Me and don't forget it. That fat chance when you're hounding me for it. Come on, is he? Yeah, yeah, yeah.