Beer fight: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
8
Pornography: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Cecy Perry, December 29, 1942.
9
Greenhouse windows froze: Cleveland, 103.
10
Phil hits pole: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Cecy Perry, March 27, 1943.
11
Gunnery, bomb scores: Louis Zamperini, war diary, January 20, 30, February 2, and March 21, 1943 entries.
12
Sea search: Stanley Pillsbury, telephone interview, August 27, 2004; Louis Zamperini, war diary, March 14, 1943, entry; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
13
Diving over sub: Louis Zamperini, diary, March 14, 1943.
14
Practical jokes: Louis Zamperini, telephone interviews.
15
“kind of daring”: Russell Allen Phillips, television interview, CBS, La Porte, Ind., January 1997.
16
Leisure-time activities: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, war diary, November 1942–May 1943 entries.
17
Wake attack: Louis Zamperini, war diary, December 22–25, 1942, entries; Stanley Pillsbury, telephone interviews, August 25, 27, 2004, March 9, 2005, and August 18, 2006; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Jesse Stay, telephone interviews, July 23, 2004, and March 16, 2005; “Son of Pickett ‘Sky Pilot’ Pilots Bomber over Wake I,” undated article from Phillips scrapbook, NPN; Walter Clausen, undated article from Phillips scrapbook, NPN; “Delphi Flyer Is Given Medal for Pacific Bombing,” undated article from Phillips scrapbook, NPN; “Former La Porte Youth Helps to Bomb Wake Isle,” undated article from Phillips scrapbook, NPN; “Fledglings’ Raid on Wake Token of Things to Come,”
, January 2, 1943;
, undated article from Phillips scrapbook, NPN; “Their Raid on Wake Biggest of Year,”
, January 2, 1943; “Tells of Raid on Wake Island,”
, January 2, 1943; “Nobody Scared in Raid on Wake Island, Ace Says,”
, January 2, 1943; Walter Clausen, “Hawaii Fliers Get Jap Planes in Wake Raid,” undated article from Phillips scrapbook, NPN; Britt, p. 12; Jesse Stay, “Twenty-nine Months in the Pacific,” unpublished memoir.
18
New Year’s: Louis Zamperini, war diary, January 1, 1943, entry.
19
STEEL FILLS JAP SOX:
Undated article from Phillips scrapbook, NPN.
20
“fled in terror”: “Tells of Raid on Wake Island,”
, January 2, 1943.
21
Japan finished within the year: “U.S. Can Take Care of Japan, Halsey Thinks,”
, January 2, 1943.
