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“it’s a little premature”: Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Kelsey Phillips, December 31, 1942.
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Coxwell’s crash: Louis Zamperini, diary, January 8–10, 1943; Missing Air Crew Report No. 16218, Air Force Historical Studies Office, Bolling AFB, Washington, D.C.; Russell Allen Phillips, letter to Kelsey Phillips, February 13, 1943.
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Buried in Honolulu: American Battle Monuments Commission.
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Crashes over the past two months:
, Table 64; Louis Zamperini, diary, December 27, 1942, and January 9, 1943; Britt, pp. 10, 13.
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Crash, loss statistics:
, Tables 100 and 161.
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In the air corps, 35,946 personnel:
, Department of the Army, Statistical and Accounting Branch, Office of the Adjutant General, p. 7.
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Disease kills 15,779:
, vol. IV:
, Office of Surgeon General, Department of Army, Washington, D.C., 1958, Table 1.
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In the Fifteenth Air Force, 70 percent of KIA: Mae Mill Link and Hubert A. Coleman, “Medical Support of Army Air Forces in World War II,” Office of the Surgeon General, USAF, Washington, D.C., 1955, p. 516.
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flies into storms: Louis Zamperini, diary, January 1943; Stanley Pillsbury, telephone interview, August 18, 2006.
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Planes land together, bulldozer: Frank Rosynek, email interview, June 15, 2005.
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“The takeoff”: Frank Rosynek, “Not Everybody Wore Wings,” unpublished memoir.
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Foot on “off” switch: Stanley Pillsbury, telephone interview, August 18, 2006.
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Plane hits mountain: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.
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Inadvertent release of life raft: Britt, p. 13.
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Navigation difficulties: John Weller, email interview, September 21, 2006; John Weller, “The History and Flight Log, Jeter Crew,” unpublished memoir.
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“We just sat there”: Martin Cohn, telephone interview, August 10, 2005.
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