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Prew decides he should return to his unit and says goodbye to Alma perpetually. Prew now not needs to make the Army his profession but has no other concepts about what he might do, and Alma is making plans to return to Oregon with out him. In February 1941, Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt, nicknamed "Prew", studies to his new posting at G Company, a US Army infantry unit stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. The Japanese assault Pearl Harbor though a lot of the harm is done at the harbor and Hickam Field somewhat than the Schofield Barracks. Prew reconnects with Maggio, who is in the "Number Two" barracks where the most recalcitrant prisoners are stored. Judson interrogates one among the other Number Two prisoners, Blues Berry, and finally ends up torturing and beating Berry to demise in front of his Number Two barracks mates including Prew. Prew schemes to be transferred into Number Two by committing an infraction after which being overwhelmed and then spending time within the "Black Hole", a darkish solitary confinement cell where prisoners are fed minimal bread and water rations. After popping out, he is positioned in Number Two and kinds a camaraderie with the other prisoners there.