Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

(accessed September 11, 2009).

26

Bright, Cunningham enlist: Kiell, pp. 320–21; Georgie Bright Kunkel, “My Brother Was a Long Distance Runner,”

West Seattle Herald

, August 21, 2008.

27

Jittery and airsick: Louis Zamperini, letter to Virginia Zamperini, April 10, 1941; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

28

Candy bars: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

29

Informant’s report: Letters between J. Edgar Hoover and Brigadier General Sherman Miles, October–November 1941, FBI, acquired from Department of the Army, United States Army Intelligence and Security Command, Freedom of Information/Privacy Office, Fort George G. Meade, Md.

30

Notes from police officer: Notes by Captain Ernie Ashton, Torrance police detective, written alongside a passage on Sasaki in Ashton’s copy of Zamperini’s 1956 autobiography,

Devil at My Heels

, from papers of Louis Zamperini.

31

Sasaki in Washington: The following Kunichi Sasaki and James Kunichi Sasaki records from RG 331, RAOOH, WWII, 1907–1966, SCAP, Legal Section, Administration Division and Prosecution Division, NACP: Kunichi Sasaki, Isamu Sato, Kazuo Akane, 1945–1948, Investigation and Interrogation Reports; Nakakichi Asoma et al., trial, exhibits, appeal, and clemency files; Nakakichi Asoma et al., 1945–1952, POW 201 File, 1945–1952, Charges and Specifications, 1945–1948.

32

Hoover orders probe: Letters between J. Edgar Hoover and Brigadier General Sherman Miles, October– November 1941, Federal Bureau of Investigation, acquired from Department of the Army, United States Army Intelligence and Security Command, Freedom of Information/Privacy Office, Fort George G. Meade, Md.

33

Pilot over Hawaii: Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya,

Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan

(Bluejack Books, 2001).

34

Activities on Oahu: William Cleveland, ed.,

Grey Geese Calling

(Askov: American Publishing, 1981), p. 203; Stetson Conn, Rose Engelman, and Byron Fairchild,

United States Army in World War II: Guarding the United States and Its Outposts

(Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1964), p. 191; Clive Howard and Joe Whitley,

One Damned Island After Another: The Saga of the Seventh

(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1946), p. 25; Robert Cressman and J. Michael Wenger, “Infamous Day,” Marines in WWII Commemorative Series,

http://www.nps.gov/archive/wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/

pcn-190-003116- 00/sec3.htm

(accessed September 10, 2009).

35

Two planes lost: “Timeline Pearl Harbor,” Pearl Harbor Remembered,

http://my.execpc.com/~dschaaf/mainmenu.html

(accessed April 29, 2010).

36

Man killed during pillow fight, friend sees Japanese plane crash: Cleveland, p. 203.

37

Louie, Pete learn of Pearl Harbor: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 19, 2004.

PART II