From Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath:

… Was he really that bad, that close to the end? Then he felt someone cover him with something, empty rice sacks. Were they trying to keep him warm or drape him with a winding sheet, a shroud?

“Dick? Dick?”

He knew that voice. It was Fred Pavia, a comrade from the 31st Infantry. Pavia was from New Jersy, just across the river from Manhattan where Gordon had grown up, and fighting together the two had become close.

“I looked for you in the barracks, Dick. Figured I might find you here. You don’t look good. I’ll be right back.”

A while later Pavia returned and held out his hand. In his palm were two capsules. Quinine, Gordon guessed.

Next morning his fever broke and he was back on his feet. Some weeks later, looking at a list of the dead, Richard Gordon spotted Fred Pavia’s name. Cause of death: complications of malaria.