Uncle Rick Reads Tom Slade on a Transport

Tom Slade, former hoodlum and later Boy Scout, is eager to turn 18 and fight in World War I. Working on a troop transport to get to Europe and close to the fighting, he is blown off the ship by a torpedo and picked up by an enemy submarine. Now a prisoner of war, Tom is determined to escape and join the American army. Will he make it? Or will the attempt cost him his life?