, Office of Statistical Control, December 1945, Tables 213 and 214.
29
Deaths of friends: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Cecy Perry, October 1942.
30
Phil runs from meeting to write home: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Cecy Perry, October 7, 1942.
31
Training for crashes: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, Service Department,
(San Diego: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, 1944), pp. 21–25.
32
“kind of silly”: Russell Allen Phillips, television interview, CBS, La Porte, Ind., January 1997.
33
“a damn swell pilot”: “Son of Pickett ‘Sky Pilot’ Pilots Bomber Over Wake I,” undated article from Phillips scrapbook, NPN.
34
Phil’s B-24: Stanley Pillsbury, telephone interviews, August 25, 2004, March 9, 2005, and August 18, 2006; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Russell Allen Phillips, television interview, CBS, La Porte, Ind., January 1997.
35
Phil’s dream of Cecy: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Cecy Perry, August 15, 1942.
36
Phil misses Cecy by three days: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Cecy Perry, November 2, 1942.
37
B-24 names: “Warpaint Photo Album,” Something About Everything Military,
http://www.jcs-group.com/military/war1941aaf/warpaint1.html
(accessed September 26, 2009).
38
Moznette names plane: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Kelsey Phillips, February 13, 1943.
39
Phil says plane masculine: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Cecy Perry, March 25, 1943.
40
Japan’s empire:
, map 22.
1
Oahu in 1942: Stanley Pillsbury, telephone interviews, August 25, 2004, March 9, 2005, and August 18, 2006; Cleveland, p. 158.
2
“one sees only about ?”: Cleveland, p. 158.
3
Barracks: Jesse Stay, “Twenty-nine Months in the Pacific,” unpublished memoir.
4
“You kill one”: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Kelsey Phillips, December 8, 1942.
5
“like a dozen dirty”: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Cecy Perry, April 2, 1943.
6
Water fight: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Cecy Perry, May 12, 1943.
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