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

Half of a Zero on B-24 wing: Cleveland, p. 103.

17

Japanese range finders: Louis Zamperini, diary, March 1, 1943.

18

B-24 drops mine into another: Jesse Stay, telephone interviews, July 23, 2004, and March 16, 2005; Cleveland, pp. 130, 137, 181–82.

19

AAF combat deaths:

Army Battle Casualties

, p. 7.

20

Odds of dying: Jesse Stay, telephone interviews, July 23, 2004, and March 16, 2005.

21

Ditching: W. F. Craven and J. L. Cate, eds.,

The Army Air Forces in World War II

, vol. XII:

Services Around the World

(Chicago: University of Chicago, 1966), p. 482.

22

Statistics on ditching: Johnsen, p. 29.

23

Death of Almond: John Henry, “Flier Wins 18-Hour Fight with Sharks,”

San Antonio Light

, July 13, 1943.

24

Rescue statistics: “Air Sea Rescue 1941–1952,” USAF Historical Division, Air University, August 1954, pp. 66– 99; Air Force Historical Studies Office, Bolling AFB, Washington, D.C.

25

Half of Catalinas crashed: Craven and Cate, p. 493.

26

September 1942 raft ordeal: Cleveland, p. 237.

27

Raft found off Christmas Island: Katharina Chase, “Unraveling a WWII Mystery,”

Defence

, November–December 2006.

28

Rape of Nanking: Chang, pp. 4–104; Yuki Tanaka,

Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II

(Boulder: Westview, 1996), p. 80.

29

Rumors of Japanese killing on Kwajalein: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

30

All but one man choosing to die in crash: John Fitzgerald, POW diary, Papers of John A. Fitzgerald, Operational Archives Branch, NHC, Washington, D.C.

31

Nervous airman: John Joseph Deasy, telephone interview, April 4, 2005.

32

Louie copes: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, diary, early 1943 entries; Russell Allen Phillips, letters to Cecy Perry, spring 1943.

33

Bracelet, silver dollar: Russell Allen Phillips, letters to Cecy Perry, August 20, 1942, and March 25, 1943.